How Joselyne Edwards' 'they're all going to die' psyche fueled 4-0 run

Something clicked in Joselyne Edwards after watching her three-fight winning streak come to an end in a disputed decision reading. Something didn't feel right.

In 2023, fighting in enemy territory, Edwards (17-6 MMA, 8-4 UFC) lost a unanimous decision to Nora Cornolle in France. All three judges scored the fight for the Frenchwoman, and two had it at 30-27. Yet, Edwards felt she did enough to win, and many online did as well, including more than half of the media members who rendered scorecards to MMA Decisions. It was at that point that Edwards embraced an extreme but very effective mentality that has fueled her current 4-0 run, with all victories coming by violent stoppages.

"It was precisely when I lost to Nora that I saw the decision went to her, and I honestly thought I won that fight," Edwards recalled speaking on Hablemos MMA in Spanish. "Imagine this, with Ailin Perez, I fought with my hand injured, and with Nora, I fought with a broken hand. Two weeks before traveling (to France), I broke my hand. My hand was purple; something was not good. I went to fight with a broken hand, and even with that, I thought I won the fight. That pissed me off a lot. I told myself, 'You know what? From now on, they're all going to die. I don't care who is in that octagon, they're going to die.'

"Outside the cage, I don't have an issue with anyone, but inside, I'm going to finish you. When you leave the fights to the judges, you're leaving it up to a human who makes mistakes just like you. They have biases. That fight was in France. I told myself, 'I'm going to do everything for my fights to not go to decision.' If the fight does reach the scorecards, then damn, my opponent really did everything to not die."

Edwards did suffer a defeat after her mentality change – a decision loss to Ailin Perez – but "La Pantera" says that was a fight she shouldn't have taken, but her emotions got the best of her. Edwards and Perez are heated rivals, and had gotten into a brawl at the UFC Performance Institute prior to the making of the fight.

"It wasn't so much the loss to Ailin," Edwards explained. "When I lost to Ailin, I still had my hand injury, and I had my hand immobilized. The fight with her comes up, and because I was so mad and heated, I accepted the fight without the doctor clearing me to fight. The doctor told me, 'In this month, your hand will start strengthening, and then I will clear you to train. When they got my hand off being immobilized, I had already accepted the fight. I hadn't even started therapy, nothing. I lost that fight for being an idiot, for getting heated and all that."