Gillian Robertson was about four hours away from leaving for the Meta Apex back on December 13 when she found out her fight with Amanda Lemos had been cancelled.
She drowned her sorrows with friends in Las Vegas, then got back to work, with a new date ahead of her that arrives this Saturday. At UFC Vegas 114, she’s once again paired up with Lemos, a fight that could produce a title challenger in the women’s strawweight division.
On the match-up, Robertson (16-8), who has had plenty of time to study her opponent, noted that “I think she’s a great striker” during Wednesday’s UFC Vegas 114 media day. “She’s going to come at me and try to kill me, I think she’s going to be very aggressive. But in those aggressive movements is where I’m going to find my opportunities, is where I’m going to find my hoes. I really just need to get my hands on her, and the fight’s going to be over.”
With a win, Robertson, originally from Niagara Falls, Canada, believes that she will have done enough to clinch a title shot. She has already laid claim to several UFC records, after all.
“I think that with the most finishes out of any woman, the most submissions out of any women, this will be my fifth win in a row, I don’t see why I wouldn’t deserve the title after this,” she stated.
That would put her on a collision course with Mackenzie Dern, a world-renowned submission specialist herself.
“I think that this has been a fight that has been in the making for years at this point. Mackenzie being such a highly accoladed grappler outside of the UFC, and then me being the submission Queen inside the UFC. So I think it’s something everybody’s wanted to see, and why not for the belt?”
Watch the full UFC Vegas 114 media day appearance by Gillian Robertson above.