“It’s so amazing; it could not be better than this,” she said, beaming. “Things are falling into place in such a perfect way that I’m so grateful and glad that everything is happening like this.”
Well, there is one way it could be even better, and that’s if the jiu-jitsu ace were able to finish Alekseeva the way she would like on Saturday night.
“I wanna do an armbar,” Mesquita said. “I’ve been practicing my armbar, but all my fights, it’s been impossible to get my armbars because they all turn the back, so the rear naked choke is always going to be there… But I’m really looking for the armbar because it’s my favorite one, my best one and I want to show it to the MMA public. It’s gonna come one day; maybe it’s gonna be this fight.”
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Mesquita laughed, acknowledging that things often work out that way and gave her less specific vision of how her debut goes on Saturday night.
“Put on my game plan right away, get my takedown and get my finish; first round, I don’t care what it’s gonna be,” she said, smiling. “A finish is a finish.”
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