Invicta FC featherweight champion Cris ‘Cyborg’ Justino fights Sweden’s Lina ‘Elbow Queen’ Lansberg at UFC Fight Night 95 on September 24, 2016 at Ginásio Nilson Nelson in Brasília, Brazil. Lansberg had a long Muay Thai career and then switched to MMA in 2012. She lost her debut in 2012 but is on a six-fight win streak since.

At a recent media event, Lansberg discussed her love for challenges.

I was into music and ballet and opera and stuff like that, said Lansberg, 34, as transcribed by Fernanda Prates for MMAjunkie. I fought my first (Muay Thai) fight in 2005, pretty late, actually. (It was) the action, I guess. It was a hard thing to do. I wanted to do the hardest, most difficult thing that I could come up with. And I thought Thai boxing was it.Everything physical that you have done helps, but I think most of all, the thing that I have learned is to give things 100 percent or nothing. It’s what I’ve learned the most.

So what drove her to MMA, after some 85 Muay Thai fights?

First of all,were the really thin gloves, said Lansberg. But then in 2012, I won the world championship for the second time, and then I also won the Swedish and the Nordic and the European championship in muay Thai. So then I decided that it was it, time to go.

ip in muay Thai. So then I decided that it was it, time to go.

Now seasoned in MMA, Lansberg promises to make the greatest women’s MMA fighter in history bleed, a lot.

When you fight somebody like her, she has the power, but I think I’m going to be smarter,” said Lansberg. “And also, you have to remember that I have everything to win, and all the pressure is on her.

I wouldn’t want to be in her position. It’s not a good thing. The underdog suits me well.

It is good that Lansberg is comfortable in the underdog role, as with the possible exception of Ronda Rousey, every WMMA fighter on the planet is.