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Joanna Jedrzejczyk named to 2024 UFC Hall of Fame class

Originally posted on F4WOnline.com  |  By Josh Nason  |  Last updated 3/10/24

As part of Saturday's UFC 299, Joanna Jedrzejczyk was announced as joining the 2024 UFC Hall of Fame class that will be inducted in late-June during International Fight Week in Las Vegas.

She is only the second female inductee in UFC history and the first from the strawweight division where she held the title from March 2015 through November 2017. 

She will be the 13th inductee into the modern wing, established for fighters who turned pro after November 2000, are a minimum of 35 years old, and have been retired for more than one year.

After five straight defenses and an unblemished 12-0 record, Jedrzejczyk ran into Rose Namajunas at November 2017's UFC 217 who dethroned her and then defeated her again in a rematch the following spring.

Jedrzejczyk, the company's only Polish champion in history, then moved to flyweight where she was unable to defeat then-champion Valentina Shevchenko at December 2018's UFC 231.

But it was her March 2020 loss to strawweight champion Zhang Weili at UFC 248 that perhaps is her most memorable moment. The two earned fight of the year honors on many ballots with Jedrzejczyk (16-5 career record) sustaining a massive hematoma on her head that made her look more like a funhouse mirror image than an actual person.

The two rematched at June 2022's UFC 275 where Weili won via 2nd round KO and Jedrzejczyk retired afterward at 35 years old.

She joins Wanderlei Silva (pioneer wing) and Frankie Edgar (modern wing) as the announced inductees thus far.

This article first appeared on F4WOnline.com and was syndicated with permission.

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