Valerie Letourneau Isn’t impressed With Maryna Moroz

Valerie Letourneau spoke with MMAjunkie about her fight with Maryna Moroz at UFC Fight Night 74. Check out the highlights:

On her reaction to Moroz: “Not impressed – she doesn’t have anything that I’ve never been through before. I always fought tough opponents. You look at Claudia Gadelha, Sarah Kaufman, Alexis Davis – I mean, that’s all experience that I have that no one is going to take away from me. I’m not impressed. I know her strengths, I know her weakness and I’m going to use it.”

On her weight cut: “Right now it feels great; we’ll see the day when I’m cutting the rest of the weight how it feels, but it should be better. I just had really bad timing also in Montreal, for a girl, I was starting my period exactly at the weigh-in – that’s the worst timing. Not to complain or give any reasons, but that’s seriously the worst time to cut water.”

On being the underdog: “I’m not surprised (she’s the favorite), especially because she beat ‘JoJo’ so quick. I’m a fighter. I analyze the fight differently from the crowd. I know ‘JoJo’ wasn’t at her best, that’s for sure. You can tell even before the fight starts. Not to take anything away from this girl, but I would love to see that fight again. It would be a different result.”

On her strategy: “I like stand-up, so it’s probably going to be a stand-up war. She has good stand-up too. She didn’t show it that much (in her UFC debut) because it was short fight, but you can tell she has good hands and will exchange. I would love to finish the fight quick, we always want that.”