Ketlen Souza

He didn't get it, and, and I, I think we know why, but again, it was tough.

And then Ketlen Souza at plus 200.

I thought she won the fight.

I thought it was a bad decision, so we can find ourself a little bit unlucky on that one.

Send the contract their way, and let's get this damn thing on the books in early 2027.

And there are two other ranked matchups to get into, and the next one was in the strawweight division, where the number eight ranked Lupo Godinez was putting her name recognition and top 10 spot on the line against the unranked but surging Ketlen Souza, who was on a two-fight win streak, including a nasty knockout earlier in the year.

And what we would see was Godinez getting her hand raised via unanimous decision, 29-28 across the board, bouncing back from her loss to Tatiana Suarez back in April, now finding herself in a position where she has been victorious in three of her last four bouts.

And at 33 years old, she is still in her prime years.

She has been one of, if not the most active strawweights on the roster since debuting back in April of 2021.

Off the top of the dome, I believe this was already her 16th fight.

And while I'm happy that Lupo got her hand raised, as she is one of my favorite fighters on the roster right now in terms of female MMA, it was Ketlen Souza who impressed me much more in this bout, and I thought looked all the part of a top 15 and borderline top 10 strawweight, because she herself is 32, in her prime, and this was arguably one of the best performances that we have seen her put on from minute one to minute 15, going the full distance against someone as tough and durable- as Godinez.

And to be completely honest with you, when the cards were getting read, I was pretty confident that it was gonna be Souza who got the decision victory.

That's how it goes.

It, catchweight, 117 pounds as, um, as Ketlen Souza misses weight.

Uh, Lupi Gonzalez, uh, apparently what I'm looking for squeaks the win through with 29-28s across the board.

Yeah, th- this, this was a very close fight.

A lot of people thought Ketlen Souza should have won it.

Um, however, she did not.

Gonzalez won it.

That'd be great.

Luque Godinez versus Ketlen Souza.

I'm not gonna lie.

I, it wasn't a terrible fight.

Uh, what I did hear though is that from our chat too, the, kinda felt like a robbery.

Like, you know, end of the third round Luque Godinez is gushing blood and then Ketlen Souza is just kinda like doing her thing.

I know, uh, Luque Godinez had like a takedown and was in guard for like, I don't know, a minute or something like that, minute or more in the third round.

But then that kinda comes, begs the question, okay, what are the judges using for criteria these days? Are we going back to control time? Are we going back to damage? It, I believe so, and about our whole chat basically said, "Yeah, that was a robbery." Um, and so I, I don't have much more to say but that's just kinda the facts.

Never count out a veteran who knows how to win rounds.

Lupe Gutierrez beat Ketlen Souza at a one hundred and seventeen pound catch weight.

Same scores, twenty-nine to twenty-eight across the board.

Workmanlike, professional, gets it done.