No regrets; Bethe Correia summarizes her career and celebrates her last fight in Las Vegas

B. Correia will have his last professional fight Photo: Instagram

Ready for the last fight of your career, Bethe Correia He sees no reason to be sad. In an interview with 'Combate', the former bantamweight belt challenger (up to 61,2kg) believes that it was important for the development of women's MMA and celebrated the fact of making her farewell in Las Vegas, where she has never fought before.

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“I was very happy, because I never fought here in Las Vegas. The times they booked my fight, I got injured or something happened and they booked somewhere else. Now last time, I always dreamed of fighting here, finishing here! It worked out! It was the only place I needed to fight”, declared Bethe.

First Brazilian woman to compete for a UFC belt, the 'Pitbull' believes it was important for the development of women's MMA in the country.

“I'm very happy because I know I contributed a little to this. When I started training and fighting MMA, there weren't any women in the UFC yet and, even so, it was crazy because I kept training and saying 'I'm going to get there', even though there weren't any women. I am part of the first generation of women in the UFC and in my fight against Ronda there was growth in Brazil in a way that even I could not imagine. All the girls who hadn't even heard of MMA, already knew what MMA was, they looked for martial arts academies to train, compete or find out more about it, because there was news on top of news about this fight”, said Bethe.

In August 2015, the woman from Paraíba had the chance to face the then bantamweight champion and MMA legend Ronda Rousey. At UFC 190, in Rio de Janeiro, even with the support of a packed HSBC Arena, the Brazilian athlete had no chance against the North American and was knocked out after just 34 seconds.

In a complicated phase in her career, Bethe won just one of her last five fights for the organization. The Brazilian athlete has a record in the sport of 11 wins, five losses and a draw and has faced prominent athletes such as Rachel Pennington, Marion Reneau and Jessica Eye.