A women's flyweight bout between Top 10 ranked contenders Tracy Cortez (12-3) and **** Cong (9-1) is the featured fight on Saturday's UFC 329 early preliminary fight card.
Cortez will enter the fight looking to rebound from a submission loss to Erin Blanchfield in her last outing in November. Coming off a loss changed the way Cortez has prepared for Cong. She's not just out to win fights, she's going in there to 'hurt these girls.'
"I would say training is a little different. I'm training with a lot more purpose. Where before I was training and not that I wasn't training hard, but I think being here is just a different level. Coming back from a defeat does make it a little different," Cortez told Stake.
"I'm definitely training extremely hard to make a statement. Extremely hard. I know putting on a great performance in this fight could mean that with two more fights I could be next for that belt. Not just winning but dominating. And I'm going in there to dominate," she said.
"Like I'm going in there to hurt these girls from here on out. I'm not just going to try to play it safe and, you know, wait till I win a round. I'm going to go in there to hurt these girls."