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LAS VEGAS – Karolina Kowalkiewicz beat Diana Belbita with a unanimous decision Saturday on the preliminary card at UFC Fight Night 229 at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas.
Take a look inside the fight with Kowalkiewicz, who won for the fourth straight time.
Diana Belbita vs. Karolina Kowalkiewicz
Result: Karolina Kowalkiewicz def. Diana Belbita via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
Updated records: Kowalkiewicz (17-7 MMA, 9-7 UFC), Belbita (15-8 MMA, 2-4 UFC)
Key stats: Kowalkiewicz went more than four years without a win during a five-fight skid, but now remarkably has won four in a row.
Kowalkiewicz on the fight's key moment
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“She was very, very good – prepared for this fight. She’s a very tough girl. My game plan was to take her down, but I couldn’t take her down. Her defensive wrestling is very good and my offensive wrestling is not so good – but my standup is very good. So I had Plan B to fight with her in the standup.”
Kowalkiewicz on turning her skid around
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“My motto is ‘Never give up.’ If something’s going wrong in your life, you don’t give up because this is your life. MMA is a very important part of my life. I had five losses. I had a very serious injury. But f*ck this, you know? I love this sport. I want to fight more. So I changed my whole life. I moved to Florida. I started training with coach (Marcos DaMatta) ‘Parrumpa,’ with coach Anderson (Franca). They believed in me from the beginning because I came to them and I had five losses. They said, ‘OK, we can train with you. Everything will be fine.’ And now everything is fine.”
Kowalkiewicz on what she wants next
“I don’t know. I need to ask coach ‘Parrumpa’ (what’s next) … Of course, let’s do this: UFC in Poland. I am ready. Polish fans are ready. We have a lot of great fighters: Jan Blachowicz, Mateusz Gamrut, Mateusz Rembecki and me, Karolina Kowalkiewicz. Let’s do this.”
To hear more from Kowalkiewicz, check out the video of the full post-fight interview above.
For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for UFC Fight Night 229.