A former titleholder beneath the PFL banner needs to make her UFC return.
Larissa Pacheco is the one fighter to have handed Kayla Harrison a professional MMA loss. Harrison is the reigning UFC Ladies’s Bantamweight Champion, whereas Pacheco has gone 10-1 in her final 11 outings. Regardless of her success, Pacheco was let go from her PFL deal.
Now that she is a free agent, Pacheco informed MMAFighting.com that her purpose is to make her approach again to the UFC roster.
“I used to be 19 years outdated after I first bought into the UFC,” Pacheco mentioned. “I didn’t even have 10 p.c of the assets I’ve now by way of weight reducing, combat high quality, all the pieces. I used to be only a child, they usually threw me in opposition to two champions, Jessica [Andrade] and Germaine [de Randamie]. I used to be on the top of my innocence within the sport, simply getting began. It’s been 12 years since my final UFC combat. Look what I’ve constructed since then.”
“I do know I’ll in all probability have to take just a few fights exterior and clear up my report,” she continued. “However I’ll do no matter it takes to indicate them that I belong within the UFC. To point out I can ship outcomes, make the division thrilling, and placed on nice fights. I’m not embarrassed or afraid to take just a few steps again if it helps me transfer ahead and earn one other shot within the UFC to indicate what I can actually do.”
Pacheco competed on season 28 of “The Final Fighter,” falling brief in opposition to Macy Chiasson through first-round TKO. She was given two professional bouts beneath the UFC banner, however she was completed by Germaine de Randamie and Jessica Andrade. Pacheco didn’t hit her stride till her UFC exit.
Pacheco went 12-3 beneath the PFL banner. Two of these losses had been in opposition to Harrison and the opposite was in opposition to Cris Cyborg. Pacheco bought her win over Harrison in late 2022 to seize the PFL Ladies’s Light-weight Championship.
