Why hasn't UFC signed her yet?!

She's pretty much the same age as Paige VanZant and started her MMA debut a month before, but I guess she isn't marketable like PaigeVanZant right?

Do you know Pacheco personally? Have you talked to her about this? Are you sure she WANTS to be in the UFC right now?

For all we know, the UFC has made an offer and she turned them down. Maybe she wants to learn a little English before leaving her home country. Maybe she still lives with her parents and they don't want her leaving just yet. Maybe Wallid told her she needs more experience before moving up.

There might be a very good reason she hasn't signed. Just because YOU think she's ready doesn't mean she and her team and Zuffa think she's ready. She's got plenty of time. Why rush things?
 
Rin is much better than this chick....Cool prospect though
 
gotta make room for Ben Saunders

Signing Ben Saunders has no impact whatsoever on who they sign for other weight classes. The UFC has a certain number of slots available in each weight class that the matchmakers are expected to fill. Joe Silva signing Ben Saunders to fill a slot at men's WW has no bearing on who Sean Shelby signs at women's bantamweight. They are completely unrelated. Trying to tie them together is a straw man argument.
 
Yeah. Have no idea why UFC signed him. A lot of their signings have been bizarre lately.

They signed him because they had a slot open at WW and needed an exciting, low-level gatekeeper to test up-and-coming prospects. The UFC is putting on over 50 shows a year. They need all kinds of fighters. Champions, contenders, prospects, curtain-jerkers, gatekeepers, etc. Saunders always puts on entertaining fights, even when he is getting his ass kicked. What's not to like?
 
Signing Ben Saunders has no impact whatsoever on who they sign for other weight classes. The UFC has a certain number of slots available in each weight class that the matchmakers are expected to fill. Joe Silva signing Ben Saunders to fill a slot at men's WW has no bearing on who Sean Shelby signs at women's bantamweight. They are completely unrelated. Trying to tie them together is a straw man argument.

it was a joke dude, obviously its not like 1 has to go for 1 to come in

I don't even care he got signed, he's pretty violent in the cage so I have no problems
 
I hope she doesn't have a nose like Miesha as i'd not root for her then and i'd only do her from behind with a plastic bag around her head.
 
She looks like Honda would beat her face into the mat. How big is she?
 
Brazilian wonder girl Larissa Moreira Pacheco. She's 10-0, finished all of her fighters and is just 19 years old!

From what I understand her manager wants her to get a little more experience before she jumps to the UFC. Pacheco also headlines Jungle Fight Championship cards so they, Wallid Farid Ismail (who is her manager) doesn't really want her to go anyways right now. (She has had an offer already from what I gather. I read that on twitter many months ago now.)

Pacheco has fought decent opposition as far as Brazil tends to offer up and coming bantamweights. One criticism of her would be that many of the fighters she has faced are flyweights but most Brazilian fighters who fight at flyweight often take fights at bantamweight. There are probably about six to eight more bantamweight/(large)flyweights of note in Brazil of whom she could fight that are equal to or better then the better fighters she has already faced.

It wouldn't surprise me if she gets picked up by the UFC next year.

At the moment they are looking for someone to fight her but I suspect they are beginning to run into trouble finding people who will be willing to fight her.

9-6 135 Larissa Pacheco (10-0-0) BR vs. TBD at Jungle Fights, Brazil.

I'd been thinking they might have tried to get Elaine Albuquerque (9-3-0) BR who just defeated Carina Damm (at bantamweight) to take that fight but Albuquerque is going back down to flyweight to fight Jennifer Maia (8-3-1) BR at Circuito Talent 11, Brazil (8-23).

Maybe they will go for Rosy Duarte (5-2-0) BR or Viviane "Sucuri" Pereira (6-0-0) BR (currently fighting at flyweight) or someone else to take that fight.

Now that I think about it Vanessa Porto (17-6-0) BR has been talking about fighting up at bantamweight again. If Invicta doesn't have plans for her this might be a fight she would take. Get the UFC's attention. Porto does want to get into the UFC from her comments.

Porto recently demolished Ana Maria
 
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As always, Thridpres to the rescue! ;-) Thanks for the info!
 
Brazilian wonder girl Larissa Moreira Pacheco. She's 10-0, finished all of her fighters and is just 19 years old!

UFC just signed her. IMO, her resume isn't impressive. She is a finisher though, I'll give her that...
 
UFC just signed her. IMO, her resume isn't impressive. She is a finisher though, I'll give her that...

its wmma, you don't need an 'impressive resume' to get signed, 10-0 at her age is nothing to sneeze at though.
 
UFC just signed her. IMO, her resume isn't impressive. She is a finisher though, I'll give her that...
It's funny how Pacheco is treated as this mediocre can crusher. When she's only 19 years old and has looked far more impressive than someone like Correia. Who gets a ton of hype here despite being 31 years old and having beat nobody of note.
 
Here are Pacheco's last two fights. She looks light years better than prospects like Pennington, Duke, and Correia (despite being considerably younger).

Against 3-0 Irene Aldana...

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Against 2-0 Lizianne Silveira...

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