Rose Namajunas takes aim at UFC champ Weili Zhang with ‘red is dead’ comment ahead of UFC 261

Rose Namajunas raised the stakes ahead of her fight with Weili Zhang at UFC 261 with a politically charged remark.

Namajunas, a Lithuanian American whose parents escaped communist rule in Europe, made clear in an interview with Lithuanian media the strawweight championship bout means more to her.

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“The animosity and things like that, those can be very motivating factors in short moments. But in all actuality going into the fight, maybe there was certain rivalries and things like that, but I always kept myself in control,” Namajunas said. “I…