Joanna Jędrzejczyk (; born August 18, 1987) is a Polish former professional

mixed martial artist Mixed martial arts (MMA), sometimes referred to as cage fighting, no holds barred (NHB), and ultimate fighting, and originally referred to as Vale Tudo is a full-contact combat sport based on striking, grappling and ground fighting, incorp ...

and

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. She has been called the greatest female strawweight mixed martial artist of all time, including by

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, who credited her with putting the weight class "on the map". Jędrzejczyk holds several records in the

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(UFC), where she is a former

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, including most successful strawweight title defenses (5), most consecutive wins at strawweight (8), and is the first Polish champion and first female European champion. After discovering Muay Thai as a teenager, Jędrzejczyk went on to earn six medals (five gold) at the

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and held several different championship titles with promotions such as World Kickboxing Network and

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. Switching to mixed martial arts (MMA) in May 2012, Jędrzejczyk went undefeated in her first nine fights and won the UFC Women's Strawweight Championship in March 2015 after defeating

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. Over the next two years, she continued her undefeated streak with five successful title defenses against opponents such as

Jessica Penne Jessica Marie Penne (born January 30, 1983) is an American professional mixed martial artist. Penne currently competes in the Women's Strawweight division for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). She was the first Invicta FC Atomweight Cha ...

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, and

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. Jędrzejczyk suffered the first loss of her MMA career when she lost the championship to Rose Namajunas in November 2017. After losing a rematch with Namajunas, Jędrzejczyk defeated

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before briefly returning to

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in an unsuccessful attempt to capture the vacant

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against

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in December 2018. Following a strawweight win over

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, Jędrzejczyk faced new strawweight champion

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in March 2020. Jędrzejczyk lost by

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in what was called the greatest fight in women's MMA history by many pundits. Following a two-year layoff, Jędrzejczyk retired from mixed martial arts in June 2022 after losing a rematch against Zhang at

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Muay Thai and kickboxing

Jędrzejczyk discovered

when she was 16, while taking up fitness, which eventually led her to compete in national and European tournaments. Jędrzejczyk competed in Muay Thai and

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for 10 years, winning over 60 matches. Her amateur Muay Thai accomplishments include six IFMA world medals (five gold, one silver) and four IFMA European championships with a record of 37 wins and 3 losses. During her professional career Jędrzejczyk won five world titles including the WKN World Championship, J Girls Championship, WBKF Championship, WKF European Championship, and the WMC Championship. Her professional record is 27–3.

Mixed martial arts

Early career

Jędrzejczyk made her professional debut in

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(MMA) on May 19, 2012, at SFT - MMA Fight Night Diva SPA against Sylwia Juskiewicz, winning via unanimous decision. On December 8, 2012, at MFC 5 she defeated Lily Kazak by submission via

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. On June 20, 2013, at Battle of Moscow 12 she defeated the then #1 Russian WMMA

fighter

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via unanimous decision. By July 2013, Jędrzejczyk was the #7 women's flyweight fighter in the world by

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. On June 7, 2014, at

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Fighting Championship 69 she defeated

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via knockout in the second round.

Ultimate Fighting Championship

Jędrzejczyk officially signed with the

(UFC) in July 2014. She made her promotional debut, now fighting as a strawweight, on July 26, 2014, at UFC on Fox: Lawler vs. Brown against Juliana Lima. She won the fight via unanimous decision. Jędrzejczyk next faced undefeated strawweight top contender

on December 13, 2014, at

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. She won the fight via split decision. The judges' decision was met with much controversy as the majority of the MMA media scored the bout in favor of Gadelha.

Strawweight Champion

Jędrzejczyk faced

for the UFC Strawweight Championship on March 14, 2015, at

. Jędrzejczyk won the one-sided bout via TKO in the second round, becoming the first UFC title-holder from Poland and first female European UFC champion. Subsequently, Jędrzejczyk won a ''Performance of the Night'' bonus. Joanna Jędrzejczyk With UFC Championship

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Jędrzejczyk's first title defense was against

on June 20, 2015, at UFC Fight Night: Jędrzejczyk vs. Penne in

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. She successfully defended the title against Penne, defeating her in the third round via TKO following a flurry of punches and a knee against the cage. Both participants were awarded ''Fight of the Night'' honors. Jędrzejczyk later underwent surgery to repair a fractured thumb incurred during the fight. In her second title defense, Jędrzejczyk faced

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on November 15, 2015, in the co-main event at

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. She won the fight by unanimous decision to retain her title. The 220 significant strikes landed by Jędrzejczyk were the most ever in a championship fight. 70 leg kicks were landed by Jędrzejczyk, the most in UFC history. The previous record was 68, set by

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against

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. In early 2016, the UFC announced that Jędrzejczyk would be one of the coaches, opposite former opponent

on ''The Ultimate Fighter 23''. A rematch between the two took place on July 8, 2016, at ''The Ultimate Fighter 23 Finale'' in the

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. She won the fight via unanimous decision. Both participants were awarded ''Fight of the Night'' for their performance. Jędrzejczyk successfully defended her title for the 4th consecutive time by defeating fellow

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by unanimous decision on November 12, 2016, at

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, the first event the promotion had held in the historic arena. Jędrzejczyk faced

on May 13, 2017, at

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. She won the fight via unanimous decision, and successfully defended her title for the fifth consecutive time. Jędrzejczyk landed the most significant strikes in UFC championship history (225), had the highest significant strike differential in UFC championship history (142), and broke her previous record for most leg kicks thrown in a single fight (75). For her sixth title defense, Jędrzejczyk faced Rose Namajunas at

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at Madison Square Garden in New York on November 4, 2017. She lost the bout via KO (punches) in the first round, marking her first professional loss in mixed martial arts competition.

Post-championship

A title fight rematch between Namajunas and Jędrzejczyk took place on April 7, 2018, at

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. She lost the fight via unanimous decision. Jędrzejczyk faced

on July 28, 2018, at

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. She won the fight via unanimous decision.

Return to Flyweight

On September 20, 2018, it was announced that Jędrzejczyk was expected to return to

to face

on December 8, 2018, at

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for the vacant

. Due to

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being in need of a main event, Shevchenko was booked against

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. After the UFC announced Cormier vs. Lewis on October 9, 2018, UFC confirmed the bout between Shevchenko and Eubanks was canceled and that Jędrzejczyk would again fight for the title against Shevchenko in the co-main event at

. Jędrzejczyk lost the fight via a unanimous decision.

Return to Strawweight

Jędrzejczyk faced

on October 12, 2019, at UFC on ESPN+ 19. Per news reports, Jędrzejczyk had informed the UFC that she might not be able to make the Strawweight limit; however, she weighed in at 115.5 pounds. She won the fight via unanimous decision. Jędrzejczyk faced

for

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on March 7, 2020, at

. She lost the fight via split decision. This fight earned her the '' Fight of the Night'' award, and was considered by many pundits as the greatest fight in women's MMA history. A rematch between Jędrzejczyk and Zhang took place on June 11, 2022 at

. Jędrzejczyk lost the fight after getting knocked out with a spinning backfist in the second round. In her post-fight interview, Jędrzejczyk announced her retirement from mixed martial arts, saying, "It's been 20 years. I'm turning 35 this year. I want to be a mom. I want to be a businesswoman. I've been training two decades, more than half of my life. I appreciate you all. I love you guys."

Fighting style and coaches

A decorated kickboxer, Jędrzejczyk is known for precise and calculated striking. She employs a sprawl-and-brawl strategy in MMA fighting. While standing with opponents, she constantly varies between high punches and body shots, also utilizing knees, elbows, and high front kicks. She also uses a flurry of strikes just to confuse the opponent before landing a solid strike, much akin to Chuck Liddell. SportsJoe.ie MMA journalist Darragh Murphy summed up her fighting style: "Her technique has the right combination of sublimity and relentlessness, expressing one's typically violent art through beauty, the perfect storm." Jędrzejczyk is soft-spoken and has a calm and endearing personality with fans. However, she often employs the use of

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against her opponents before fights, and her fights have been known to be violent and bloody. UFC president

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has praised her stating "She is so bad ass... pound-for-pound he is thebest female fighter on Earth... Her killer instinct is ridiculous." MMA media have called Jędrzejczyk "must-see TV". Jędrzejczyk has been praised for her elite level sprawl-and-brawl strategy.

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striking analyst

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has written that "she's being likened to Chuck Liddell, and that is a pretty solid way to describe her...while she has an undoubtedly better technical striking game than Liddell". BloodyElbow.com striking analyst Connor Ruebusch has written "Distance, angles, and damage. These are the key ingredients of successful takedown defense, and the elements that make Joanna Jędrzejczyk and

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such masterful strikers." ''

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'' striking analyst Patrick Wyman wrote that "sound fundamentals fuel the best fighters in the world, and nobody has better mastered the bread and butter of footwork and distance management than Aldo and Jedrzejczyk". Foxsports.com striking analyst

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has stated that "Joanna's MMA boxing is remarkable. It's second to none". Since her training camp for

, Jędrzejczyk has trained at

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. Her strength and conditioning coach is

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. In 2021, Jędrzejczyk was promoted to blue belt in

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after training in the gi.

Personal life

Jędrzejczyk is

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and prays with a

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before entering the ring or

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. She was the fiancée of former Polish

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player Przemysław Buta. In a 2019 interview, she cited "some difficulties" in her personal life for "almost two years," confirming that she is no longer engaged to Buta.

Filmography

Film

Championships and accomplishments

Mixed martial arts

(one time) ***Five successful title defenses **Tied (with

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) for the most title fights in UFC women's divisions (10) **First Polish-born champion in UFC history **

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(one time) vs.

** Fight of the Night (three times) **Tied (

) for most wins in UFC Women's Strawweight history (10) ** Most title bouts in UFC Women's Strawweight history (9) ** Most wins in title bouts in UFC Women's Strawweight history (6) ** Most consecutive wins in UFC Women's Strawweight history (8) **Tied (

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) for most unanimous decision wins in UFC Women's Strawweight history (6) **Highest significant strike differential in UFC championship history (+142 vs.

) **2nd-highest significant strike differential in UFC championship history (+121 vs.

) **3rd-highest significant strike differential in UFC championship history (+117 vs.

) **4th-highest significant strike differential in UFC championship history (+113 vs.

) **Highest significant strikes thrown in a UFC championship fight (+225 vs.

) **2nd-highest significant strikes thrown in a UFC championship fight (+220 vs.

) **Most leg kicks in a fight in UFC history (+78 vs

) **2nd-most leg kicks in a fight in UFC history (+75 vs

) **First Polish UFC Champion **First female European UFC Champion **Third European UFC Champion **2020 Fight of the Year vs.

**2020 UFC President's Choice Fight of the Year vs.

*Women's MMA Press Awards **2014 Strawweight of the Year *

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**2015 Best Fighter of the Half-Year *

**2015 Female Fighter of the Year *

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**2015 Female Fighter of the Year **2016 July Fight of the Month vs.

**2020 March Fight of the Month vs.

**2020 Fight of the Year vs.

*Fightbooth.com **2015 Lady Violence Award *

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.com **2015 All-Violence First Team **2020 Fight of the Year vs.

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** 2019 – July 2020 Fight of the Year vs.

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**2020 MMA Match of the Year vs.

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**2020 Fight of the Year vs.

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**2020 Fight of the Year vs.

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**2020 Fight of the Year vs.

*Cageside Press **2020 Fight of the Year vs.

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**2020 Fight of the Year vs.

*MMA Weekly **2020 Fight of the Year vs.

*Combat Press **2020 Fight of the Year vs.

Kickboxing

*J-Girls Kickboxing Federation **2009 J-Girls World Featherweight Champion *World Budokai Federation ** 2013 WBKF Pro Title *World Kickboxing Federation ** 2010 WKF European Champion

Muay Thai

* IFMA World Championships **2013 -57 kg **2012 -57 kg **2011 -57 kg **2009 -57 kg **2008 -57 kg *IFMA European Championships **3x IFMA European Champion (2008, 2012) *

**WMC/EMF European Champion (one time) *World Kickboxing Network ** 2010 WKN Muay Thai World -57kg Champion (one time)

Mixed martial arts record

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Ekaterina Vandaryeva Ekaterina Vandaryeva (born January 20, 1991) is a Belarusian kickboxer who defeated future UFC champion Joanna Jędrzejczyk in a controversial judges' decision to become the WKN champion in 2011. Career Before participating in Muay Thai, Ekat ...

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Minsk, Belarus Minsk ( be, Мінск ; russian: Минск) is the capital and the largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach and the now subterranean Niamiha rivers. As the capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the adm ...

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