Esparza: Title fight not being promoted enough
Carla Esparza: “It is what it is. I’m gonna just keep winning fights and then those things will come. I’m not really too focused on that.”
The UFC 185 main event is a light weight title fight, but the co-main event is also an important fight, the first ever title defense of the woman’s straw weight title. And for champion Carla Esparza, she believes it is not being promoted as much as it deserves to be:
When the first artwork for UFC 185 came out, Carla Esparza was surprised. Because she wasn’t on it.
Anthony Pettis, the UFC lightweight champion, was there. So was his opponent, Rafael dos Anjos. Also on the design were the faces of Johny Hendricks and Matt Brown.
Meanwhile, the co-main event — a women’s strawweight title fight between Esparza and Joanna Jedrzejczyk — was nowhere to be found.
That was amended in newer versions and the official fight poster. But Esparza initially and rightly felt slighted.
“To be honest, I don’t think our specific fight is being promoted as much as it should be,” Esparza told MMAFighting.com “It is what it is. I’m gonna just keep winning fights and then those things will come. I’m not really too focused on that.”
