'UFC 1 on 1: Rose Namajunas' debuts tonight on FS1 ahead of UFC 223

Ahead of her first title defense, FS1 is rolling out a special look at UFC women’s strawweight champion Rose Namajunas.

“UFC 1 on 1: Rose Namajunas” debuts tonight on FS1 at 7 p.m. ET.

The 30-minute special, hosted by Karyn Bryant, will feature Namajunas discussing “her troubled childhood in Milwaukee, finding MMA and how she lets love fuel her fire.”

Namajunas (7-3 MMA, 5-2 UFC) will defend her 115-pound title against former champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk (14-1 MMA, 7-1 UFC) on Saturday in the UFC 223 co-main event. Namajunas took the belt from Jedrzejczyk at Madison Square Garden at UFC 217 in November.

In the special, Namajunas says preparing for her first title fight with Jedrzejczyk featured some energy she had to work past.

“We knew everything she was going to do before she did it,” Namajunas says on the show. “I felt a lot of negative energy coming from her. She’s just really mean. I wasn’t really worried about that.

“I saw the opening (for the knockout), but you’re on auto-pilot in the moment. Right before that, I was present in the moment.”

UFC 223 will take place Saturday at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. The main card will air on pay-per-view following prelims on FS1 and UFC Fight Pass.

The UFC 223 card includes:

MAIN CARD (Pay-per-view, 10 p.m. ET)

• Max Holloway vs. Khabib Nurmagomedov – for lightweight title
• Champ Rose Namajunas vs. Joanna Jedrzejczyk – for women’s strawweight title
• Calvin Kattar vs. Renato Moicano
• Michael Chiesa vs. Anthony Pettis
• Paul Felder vs. Al Iaquinta

PRELIMINARY CARD (FS1, 8 p.m. ET)

• Felice Herrig vs. Karolina Kowalkiewicz
• Ray Borg vs. Brandon Moreno
• Chris Gruetzemacher vs. Joe Lauzon
• Olivier Aubin-Mercier vs. Evan Dunham

PRELIMINARY CARD (UFC Fight Pass, 6:15 p.m. ET)

• Alex Caceres vs. Artem Lobov
• Ashlee Evans-Smith vs. Bec Rawlings
• Devin Clark vs. Michael Rodriguez
• Kyle Bochniak vs. Zabit Magomedsharipov

For more on UFC 223, check out the UFC Rumors section of the site.