LONDON – Although all the talk prior to Bellator 200 revolved around Anastasia Yankova, her opponent Kate Jackson knew she would have the advantage on fight night.

Jackson’s (10-3-1 MMA, 2-1 BMMA) belief came to reality, because she largely dominated Yankova (5-1 MMA, 3-1 BMMA) en route to handing the Russian her first career loss by unanimous decision on Friday’s card, which took place at The SSE Arena in London and aired via tape-delay on Paramount.

The Brit, who was fighting on home soil, had too advanced a grappling arsenal for Yankova to handle. As a results, she got a decisive win on the scorecards. She said she respected her opponent going into the fight, but was convinced she’d be too much.

“She’s super tough, she’s got good striking, but I’m far more experienced and she just hasn’t fought anyone like me yet,” Jackson told reporters, including MMAjunkie, following Bellator 200. “It was highly unlikely that she was going to beat me. So, it’s nice to derail the hype train.”

Jackson managed to rack up 30-26, 30-26, 29-27 scores against Yankova in the women’s flyweight bout, but said she felt close to finishing the fight near the final bell. She got a dominant position over Yankova late in the third round, and felt a few more seconds on the clock would have changed the outcome into a stoppage in her favor.

“She was super tough, she kept moving and did what she needed to do to stay in the fight,” Jackson said. “I think maybe another 10, 20 seconds in the third round, with he position I had … I would have finished her. But I didn’t get there early enough. My jiu-jitsu worked.”

The win for Jackson added to a solid run of late for the 31-year-old. Her only loss in her past eight fights came against former UFC title challenger Valerie Letourneau at Bellator 191 in December.

“KPA” feels she belongs among the top women in Bellator at 125 pounds, and said a logical option would be against someone from the Bellator 201 event on June 29 – which features champ Ilima-Lei Macfarlane (7-0 MMA, 6-0 BMMA) vs. Alejandra Lara (7-1 MMA, 1-0 BMMA) as well as Letourneau (9-6 MMA, 1-0 BMMA) vs. Kristina Williams (2-0 MMA, 2-0 BMMA).

“There’s some big fights, I think, coming up next month possibly coming up in the division,” Jackson said. “So I guess it depends how they go, really. I’d like one of the women who are fighting, it think four of them, that are fighting on the next card. I wouldn’t mind one of those.”

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