Joanna Jedrzejczyk said there’s a bad side to mixed martial arts as it can change your appearance.

Jedrzejczyk was left disfigured after a brutal 25-minute war with the UFC strawweight champion Weili Zhang earlier in the month.

“I’m still a woman, I want to be attractive,” . “I’m very girly, so I hate myself when I’m like this, but that’s the price we have to pay.”

Zhang, meanwhile, remains in Las Vegas as she has been unable to leave the city and return to China because of a coronavirus outbreak in Nevada.

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Joanna Jedrzejczyk, who was left disfigured in her recent UFC fight, said there’s a bad side to her sport because of the way it can change your appearance.

Jedrzejczyk lost a narrow decision to Weili Zhang after exchanging 768 strikes in a grueling 25-minute battle with the UFC strawweight champion in Las Vegas on March 7.

Both fighters went to hospital after the bout and, though they were released as their injuries were not deemed significant, the Nevada State Athletic Commission suspended them from fighting for two months so that they could recover.

Jedrzejczyk suffered a bent nose and had a huge hematoma on either side of her forehead, and it took at least two weeks before her face finally went back to normal.