{"id":38690,"date":"2026-06-07T18:10:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T18:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Former-ring-girl-surprised-with-scorecards-in-UFC-debut-201462"},"modified":"2026-06-07T18:10:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T18:10:01","slug":"former-ring-girl-surprised-with-scorecards-in-ufc-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/former-ring-girl-surprised-with-scorecards-in-ufc-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Former ring girl surprised with scorecards in UFC debut"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Jeisla
\nChaves<\/a> was surprised by the result in her Ultimate Fighting Championship<\/a> debut.<\/p>\n

Chaves made her promotional debut against Yuneisy
\nDuben<\/a> at
\nUFC Fight Night 278<\/a> on Saturday. \u201cA Braba\u201d earned a hard-fought
\nsplit decision win over Duben at the Apex in Las Vegas. However,
\nthe flyweight was surprised by the split nature of the verdict.
\nWhile Duben managed to win the third round on all the scorecards,
\njudge Tony Weeks also gave her the first round. While Chaves admits
\nthat Duben deserved Round 3, she was confident that she did enough
\nto win the first two. Chaves said in a post-fight interview:<\/p>\n

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\u201cVery happy with a win in my debut. It was a split decision. I
\ngotta confess, I was really surprised. I was like, \u2018Oh my God.
\nWe\u2019re gonna have some emotion. Why not? It makes it more fun.\u2019
\nThankfully, the win came\u2026 I was confident. My corners came to me
\nand said, \u2018You won 2-1.\u2019 I felt that we had done enough to
\nwin.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chaves (8-0) got introduced to combat sports when a friend proposed
\na gig as a ring girl in a muay thai event. Chaves soon started
\ntraining with the promoter of the event, who is still her head
\ncoach. A year later, Chaves competed for the first time in muay
\nthai. The undefeated Brazilian started training jiu-jitsu soon
\nafter, where she then transitioned to MMA. Chaves earned a contract
\nwith a gritty split decision win on the Dana White’s Contender Series<\/a> last year.
\nMeanwhile, Venezuela\u2019s Duben (6-2) had finished all six of her wins
\nwhen she came to the UFC as an undefeated athlete in 2024. However,
\nshe has since dropped both her UFC outings.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI hope I showed I’m always bringing a tough
\nfight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jeisla Chaves was proud of grinding out a gritty victory in her
\nOctagon debut and hopes to continue her momentum going forward.
\n
\n#UFCVegas118<\/a><\/p>\n

Complete Prelim Results \u27a1\ufe0f https:\/\/t.co\/YDr2W0bfjX<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/mC2MFJQAKg<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 UFC News (@UFCNews)
\nJune 6, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Jeisla Chaves was surprised by the result in her Ultimate Fighting Championship debut. Chaves made her promotional debut against Yuneisy Duben at UFC Fight Night 278 on Saturday. \u201cA Braba\u201d earned a hard-fought split decision win over Duben at the Apex in Las Vegas. However, the flyweight was surprised by the split nature of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38691,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}