Valerie Letourneau showed her toughness at UFC 193 when she absorbed a new UFC title fight record 220 significant strikes courtesy of strawweight champ Joanna Jedrzejczyk.

Although Jedrzejczyk (11-0 MMA, 5-0 UFC) had blown away her recent competition within a few rounds, Letourneau (8-4 MMA, 3-1 UFC) stood toe-to-toe and took the champion’s best shots over five rounds before losing a unanimous decision.

Letourneau was a massive betting underdog and was given little chance of victory. She wasn’t able to pull off a shocking upset like Holly Holm did over Ronda Rousey in UFC 193’s main event, but she surpassed the expectations of most, including UFC President Dana White.

“At the UFC, we always believed in Valerie Letourneau. She’s big, strong for that division, and now she’s at least going to sit in the rankings where she belongs,” White said on “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast. “She wasn’t ranked No. 8 (in our opinion). She’s better than that, and she proved it. Joanna’s just a f-cking monster.”

Letourneau, No. 7 in the NOS Energy Drink MMA women’s MMA strawweight rankings, may have jumped up the 115-pound rankings despite the loss, but she had to take a lot of damage to get there. Jedrzejczyk landed a UFC record 70 leg kicks as part of the 220 significant strikes overall, and White said the Canadian was wearing every blow when he visited her in the hospital after UFC 193.

“I went to the hospital there and I had Joanna Jedrzejczyk there, I had Valerie Letourneau there and I had Ronda Rousey there,” White said. “I’m walking from room to room going, ‘Jesus Christ, this is a crazy business we’re in, man.’ It’s just so crazy, these girls.

“Valerie Letourneau is – oh my God. Her eye was massive. It was the craziest thing I’ve ever seen, her eye. It was so bad. So then I’m like, ‘How’s your leg?’ Then she looks at me and pulls the covers over and shows me her leg. I’ve never seen anything like that. It was – I’m telling you, (she) is banged up right now.”

White has made countless hospital visits during his tenure as UFC boss. However, what he witnessed from Letourneau, Jedrzejczyk and Rousey after UFC 193 convinced him that the female fighters have a higher tolerance for pain than their male counterparts.

“The women are tougher than the men,” White said. “Woman have babies for Christ’s sake. They’re way tougher than us. Way tougher than the men.”

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