BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Joanna Jedrzejczyk was defiant about a second loss to UFC women’s strawweight champ Rose Namajunas and believes she’s peerless in her division.

Jedrzejczyk (14-2 MMA, 9-2 UFC) cited fight stats that had her outlanding Namajunas (8-3 MMA, 6-2 UFC) as proof she deserved to win the rematch, declaring “numbers don’t lie.” Namajunas won with three 49-46 scores.

“That’s the answer,” she told reporters after her loss in the UFC 223 pay-per-view co-headliner on Saturday at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. “We thought the second round was super close, but man, more kicks from me.

“(Namajunas) gassed out from the third round, and I could fight 10 more rounds. At the end of every break, I was on my feet, ready to go.”

“The significant strikes are telling the truth,” she later added.

Despite a brave face, Jedrzejczyk fought back emotion as she came to grips with her loss.

“I felt I was winning the fight,” she said, wiping away tears. “And here, I’m not complaining that I lost. I’m a really different fighter. I have done so much for myself and the sport. I feel great.”

Given her second setback to the champ, Jedrzejczyk naturally faced questions about her immediate career plans. She resisted those and said her priority is to vacation and decompress from a long fight camp.

“I feel great in the 115-pound division,” she said. “But we’ll see where we go after vacation.”

Jedrzejczyk made it clear that whatever she decides, she still considers herself a dominant force at 115 pounds, where she defended the title five times before Namajunas upset her this past November to take the belt.

“You can see the other female strawweights fighting, and c’mon,” she said. “They cannot compare themselves to me. They are all are only jealous and talking too much all the time. I’m telling them, bow down. I’m the queen.”

And while judges didn’t declare her the victor, Jedrzejczyk takes pride in her performance, especially when compared to a previous loss she attributed to a brutal weight cut.

“Fourteen hours of weight cut, dying,” she said. “You can imagine how my body felt in the first fight. But I gave everything I had this time.”

With her lead in significant strikes undoubtedly aided by dozens of leg kicks, Jedrzejczyk took validation through the physical marks she left on the champ.

“Let’s see how (Namajunas is) going to walk tomorrow,” she said.

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