Jessica Andrade is down to run a third fight with fellow ex-UFC champion Rose Namajunas.

After two memorable bouts, where each fighter walked away with a win, Andrade likes the idea of doing a trilogy bout with Namajunas to settle their score. Andrade (26-14 MMA, 17-12 UFC), who returned to 115 pounds, is even opening in moving up to flyweight, where Namajunas now competes.

"Yeah, I've thought about it many times, and I thought that it was going to happen at 115. However, Rose now went up a weight class, and I don't think that she's interested in returning to 115 pounds," Andrade told Hablemos MMA in Spanish.. "But if the UFC tells me, 'Jessica, you want to do a trilogy with her?' for me, it would be very good. I like this idea a lot. It would be good to get a third fight with Rose."

Namajunas and Andrade first fought in 2019. The Brazilian knocked out Namajunas with a devastating slam to win the UFC women's strawweight title and two $ 50,000 bonuses for Fight of the Night and Performance of the Night. In their rematch a year later in 2020, Namajunas avenged her loss, outpointing Andrade in a non-title fight that also won Fight of the Night.

Andrade remembers very well the night she became champion by scoring one of the scariest knockouts in UFC history.

"Yeah, I was also very scared," Andrade said, looking back at her title-winning performance. "At first, I didn't think about it. I just thought about my win. But when I went up on the cage and looked at the screen, I went, 'Oh my God. Is she dead?' But then she sat up and was talking, and she looked fine, but yeah, the original thought was, 'Oh my God. How is she alive? She didn't die.'"

Andrade returns to the cage this Saturday in the preliminary card of UFC 319 – which takes place at United Center in Chicago. She takes on ranked contender Loopy Godinez in a strawweight matchup. Andrade looks to snap a two-fight losing streak.

This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: Jessica Andrade interested in trilogy bout with Rose Namajunas

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