“I was just going, going, going fast for a while and I kind of had to sit back with that injury and just take some time to focus on my family,” De La Rosa said. “It’s nice to be able to get back in here and be 100 percent for this fight.”
The bout between these flyweights is one that has been in the back of their minds for a couple of years. The two were originally scheduled to fight in December, which brings even more anticipation for Saturday night.
“I think she’s kind of seen me for a while,” De La Rosa said. “I think she wanted to fight me right when she joined the UFC and we were both pretty young, but she’s been wanting to fight me for a while, which I think is cool that we’re actually going to be able to step in there because we’ve both been talking about each other for a while now.”
Barber’s alleged decrease in confidence and De La Rosa’s increase in confidence is something that De La Rosa believes will play in her favor. There isn’t much that De La Rosa feels worried about when it comes to Barber’s gameplan in the Octagon.