Jessica
Eye isn’t done with combat sports just yet.
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The former
Ultimate Fighting Championship flyweight revealed on ”The
Ariel Helwani Show” that she has signed a contract to compete
for the Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship later confirmed the deal
via social media. Eye is expected to make her promotional debut on
May 10 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her current deal with BKFC is for
one fight.
“After a long time of negotiation, I am signing with Bareknuckle
Fighting Championship. I started out boxing,” Eye said. “… They
finally came financially correct and motivated me enough to be
like, ‘You know what?’ Maybe these guys will take care of me in a
way that I wasn’t taken care of in my UFC fights and that’s
financially rewarding.”
Eye
announced her retirement from MMA following a loss to Maycee
Barber at UFC 276 in July 2022. That was the fourth straight
defeat and fifth in six outings overall for the 38-year-old Ohio
native.
Eye went 5-10 with one no contest during over the course of a UFC
stint that began in 2013. She challenged for the 125-pound title in
June 2019, when she suffered a head-kick KO loss to Valentina
Shevchenko at UFC 238. “Evil” owns a 15-11 career mark that
includes notable triumphs over the likes of Viviane
Araujo, Katlyn
Cerminara and Leslie
Smith.