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Published 10:12 12 Jun 2018 BST
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"She cheated in the fight; she greased before the fight," Esparza said on The MMA Hour.
"I was considering saying something to the referee in between [rounds]. I was going to say, ‘She’s greasing! She’s greasing’, but I didn’t really know how to go about it."
Several fighters over the years have been accused of greasing, with the most famous case being BJ Penn's complaints about Georges St-Pierre in 2009.
Having watched the fight back, Esparza is in no doubt that Gadelha used illegal measures to avoid submissions.
"It’s pretty shady to me. I re-watched the fight and my hands were slipping right off," Esparza continued. "Even when I was trying to grab armbars during the fight my arms kept slipping down. She’s a cheater, but it doesn’t really surprise me. In my opinion, she’s been a pretty dirty fighter throughout, so it is what it is."https://twitter.com/CarlaEsparza1/status/1006253243230347264
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