UFC strawweight star Iasmin Lucindo is a clear case of being better than your record. While the Brazilian dynamo has an overall record of 16-5, she is one of the hottest prospects in the 115-pound division. Before coming to the Dana White-led UFC, Lucindo was already a champion many times over.

The 22-year-old is a former champion in not one, not two, but three different promotions (Action Fight, Punch Fight, and Samurai Fight House). And most of her losses came early in her pro career, which is quite understandable since Lucindo made her pro-MMA debut when she was 14! In this article, we take a look at her relationship status.

Does Iasmin Lucindo have a husband/boyfriend? Her relationship status

Iasmin Lucindo does have a partner, with whom she seems to be getting ready to get hitched. Speaking in the post-fight interview after her career-progressing victory over veteran Karolina Kowalkiewicz, the Brazilian strawweight remarked how she was glad her family and her girlfriend were there. The aforementioned girlfriend is a dentist, Dr Katia Morais. Things seem to have gotten even more serious between them since.

A post on both their accounts in May 2024 shows them holding each other’s hands with rings on both of their ring fingers. That, of course, means that the couple is now engaged, in which case Dr Morais is Lucindo’s fiancee now! But other than that, nothing is known about how long the couple have been together or how they met. Lucindo keeps her personal life private and hasn’t ever really talked about her partner.

The 22-year-old is after all, on a mission. The UFC is the pinnacle of combat sports. Not to mention the most well-paid MMA promotion in the world, which can and has made many global superstars. And like all of her peers, Iasmin Lucindo wants to become a UFC champion.

The Fortaleza native has been very open about how she and her family didn’t have money growing up. The reason she started training in martial arts in the first place was because it was one of the few and easy ways someone from her background could get out of poverty and take care of her family. This brings us to the more unfortunate reason she started training in martial arts.

Iasmin Lucindo reveals family troubles that led her to MMA

Iasmin Lucido came into martial arts as a way to escape poverty. Well, partly. The other part of her interest in martial arts was simple- she wanted to be able to protect herself. And not just from other kids or bullies, but from any of her partners. Domestic violence was very real and not uncommon around her when she was growing up.

“The women in my family, my mother, they suffered domestic violence,” Lucindo revealed in a recent interview. “So I did (MMA) to defend myself. … My mom was very supportive, especially because she understood that it was a way out of the life that we had. And as an added bonus, we’re always going to have that as the defense mechanism. We have something to defend ourselves,” Lucindo continued. And what a good decision that was.

Now not only is the Brazilian dynamo more than able to defend herself, but is an MMA phenom blazing her way to the top of her profession. And all that before her twenty-third birthday! What are your thoughts on Lucindo’s inspiring journey to the UFC?