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Jessica Andrade and Erin Blanchfield will headline this Saturday Night’s UFC Fight Night 219 event.
Andrade, who took the fight on short notice, revealed that she signed a new contract with the UFC ahead of the main event encounter.
“It was something really good, a great change in my career,” Andrade said on the MMA Fighting podcast Trocação Franca (transcript via Guilherme Cruz of MMA Fighting). “Now I’ll really be able to make my nest egg and plan my life. Maybe my body won’t be the same in five or six years, so now I’ll be able to change my life and my family’s lives. This is work well done from my part, but also my team, to be putting on good fights and always being available when the UFC needs. This fight has really saved my life in every sense. I’ll even buy my mother a new house.”
The contract is reportedly with approximately three times the money of her last contract, but no financial details were revealed by Andrade.
Another detail that Andrade revealed is that her agent, Ali Abdelaziz, helped her get the new contract with the UFC.
“My last contract had 10 fights, but Ali said that was crazy, that it wasn’t a good idea to have a contract with so many fights,” she said. “He said, ‘Let’s do the next contracts with less fights, but with you getting paid more.’”
