Nora Cornolle is prepared for her encore performance at Accor Arena. | Entertainment

Given what she’s seen from Cavalcanti of late, Cornolle actually likes her probabilities this weekend.

“I saw her (fight) with Zarah, and I wasn’t impressed,” she stated sheepishly, not desirous to sound disparaging whereas additionally eager to present her real ideas. “To be trustworthy, I used to be actually wanting to see her struggle. I used to be fairly satisfied she would end Zarah, so after I see the struggle, I used to be dissatisfied, to be trustworthy. In phrases of stage, I assumed Jacqueline would crush her, however that did not occur. Respect to everyone, however, to me, it was fairly a boring struggle.

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“Her second one towards Josiane? Same. Such a distinction in peak, she had so many weapons to make use of, and similar — I used to be ready for a end and it didn’t come.

“I have a feeling she has progressed a lot,” she stated of Cavalcanti. “I believe her abilities are approach higher than three years in the past, however I really feel like within the cage, possibly she doesn’t succeed to place every thing collectively within the puzzle on the evening like she wants.

“We will see if I’m right on Saturday or not.”

A yr after fretting over her debut for months on finish earlier than making the stroll, Cornolle will get the chance on Saturday evening to not solely put forth the form of performance that may go away her strolling away from the Octagon glad with her efforts, but additionally avenge the one and solely lack of her MMA profession so far.

There is nonetheless some stress, however nothing like final yr, and if every thing goes based on plan, the post-fight festivities in “The City of Lights” can be epic.

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“It’s a different stress because, of course, she’s the only one that has a victory (over me) three years ago, so I have to leave a message — that this was a mistake, and it’s either her or me in a way,” defined Cornolle. “We signed at the identical time, we had our first fights at the identical time, and now we face one another, so who is gonna be going up now? Now I've to mark the truth that it’s me, not her.

“(Celebrating this win) can be ‘The Big Party’ as my coach says; we’re gonna have enjoyable. We know what we’re gonna do, and after that, we’re gonna have a good time massively as a result of it was a really lengthy struggle camp with so, so, so many points all alongside the camp.

“I’m more than ready,” she added with a spark in her eyes. “I’ve by no means been so laser-focused in my complete life, my complete profession; I’m on it. I’m going to simply take her out. I would like that.

“We need to do that, do it the way we see it, and then enjoy.”