She'll at least be a 'credible' challenger to some, but people will still hate on her for being too short
People are kinda unfair with women's 125. You HAVE to start a new division with a tournament before inserting popular names from the neighboring divisions and other orgs, it's literally how to set up an entire rankings and weight class. Now, in the long term, that first champ is gonna seem like paper (see: Esparza), but they have to be there. Fans grew way too impatient too quickly with that though. It started with Nicco not even facing the other finalist cuz Eubanks had cutting problems, then the length of time Nicco was out. After that, terrible booking decisions created no top contenders, when paired with some really bad judges decisions, so everyone at the top had a loss to someone else recently and no one was ahead, all while eating shit from fans with no understanding of those problems and no patience for solutions.