After her UFC Denver win over Fatima Kline, Jasmine Jasudavicius had a simple response to the fans who booed her performance.
“Suck it, man,” Jasudavicius declared.
The standout Canadian flyweight picked up her second straight victory at UFC Denver. The fiery post-fight promo certainly captured a lot of people’s attention, and perhaps, caught them off guard. Days later, Jasudavicius understood it got a reaction, but it doesn’t mean she wasn’t a little bit uneasy about it.
“I’m still embarrassed by it a little,” Jasudavicius said recently on The MMA Hour. “I get it, as long as my name is in people’s mouths, it’s good. But at the same time, I don’t want to be known as, ‘Hey, suck it, man,’ like that Hawk Tuah girl.”
Jasudavicius was originally slated to face top-10 fighter Viviane Araujo at the event before Araujo was forced to withdraw for undisclosed reasons. Jasudavicius admits she was a little annoyed that she had to face a promotional newcomer, but was happy to remain on the card with the attempt to add another win to her UFC résumé.
The leftover adrenaline from the pre-fight shift still needed to get out after the victory, and it certainly did on the microphone — although, she still had to mind her Ps and Qs.
“I still think I had the poison in me from the fight, it was still kind of [lingering] and hadn’t released yet,” Jasudavicius said. “I felt like I was in there, I worked so hard, I tried my hardest and I’m trying to talk. I had these nice things to say in my head, and [then all I hear is], ‘Boo, boo,’ and it just kind of caught me off guard.
“But I knew I couldn’t swear, and I couldn’t say, ‘F you.’ I know I can’t do that, so that was the first thing that came out.”
Whether she regrets the octagon interview or not, Jasudavicius knows she wants to set a better example for the younger fans who are getting into the massively popular UFC brand.
“I’m trying not to swear as much because I think I have a potty mouth, and I know that little girls are watching me and I don’t want them to have the mouth that I do,” Jasudavicius said.
“I want them to be better. So I’m trying to be better, to be a better representation.”
