LAS VEGAS – Ketlen Souza met the media Saturday after her win over Bruna Brasil at UFC Fight Night 266.
Souza (16-6 MMA, 3-3 UFC) outpointed Brasil (11-6-1 MMA, 4-4 UFC) for a unanimous decision on the prelims at the Meta APEX in Las Vegas. The win snapped a two-fight skid of split decision losses for Souza.
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Although she’s had just one stoppage win in the past five years – a bonus-winning submission of Yazmin Jauregui at UFC 306 – she said she’s always trying to finish fights, and doesn’t think anyone should take particular umbrage with the scores in her decision win.
“The plan was to get a knockout or a finish – to actually have a stoppage,” Souza said through a translator at her post-fight news conference. “People know I like to do that, and that’s what you come in for. But at the end of the day, in some fights against me, the girls were stalling and putting me against the fence. So why can’t I do that with someone else, too, and just try to explore that?
“(I wanted to) push her against the fence all the time, to try to damage her. There was a time when I got to take her down, she got to take me down. I was always working her on the fence, and I was the one pushing through. I was forceful with my strikes. My strikes were more significant than the ones she did. … Push against the fence and strike when possible. I thought that was the path to win.”
Check out Souza’s post-fight interview in the video above.
This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: Ketlen Souza defends strategy vs. Bruna Brasil at UFC Fight Night 266
