Jéssica Andrade is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist. She is the former UFC Women’s Strawweight Champion. As of October 19, 2020, she is #1 in the UFC women’s flyweight rankings, and #5 in the women’s pound-for-pound rankings.
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Jéssica Andrade is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist. She is the former UFC Women’s Strawweight Champion. As of October 19, 2020, she is #1 in the UFC women’s flyweight rankings, and #5 in the women’s pound-for-pound rankings. Andrade was born on September 25, 1991, in Umuarama, Paraná, Brazil, to farmer parents Julio and Neusa Andrade. She and her older brother Fernando worked at their parents’ plantation fields throughout their childhood until the farm was municipalized. At the age of 14, she started working at a fish & pay pond and later delivering medicine for a drug store. She trained at Gracie Humaita for the first six professional fights.
After beating Duda Yankovich, she moved to Niterói in order to train at Paraná Vale Tudo. She won eight of her first ten fights in her native Brazil. On April 14, 2013, Andrade submitted Milana Dudieva at ProFC 47: Russia vs. Europe in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. In October 2015 she announced her decision to move to the Strawweight division. She then faced former title challenger Jessica Penne at her new weight class on June 4, 2016, at UFC 199, winning the one sided bout via TKO in the second round. In May 2017, she was awarded the UFC Women’s Strawweight Championship.
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