Overview
- In July 2026 Andrade told the Direto de Vegas podcast that she has been picking up app-based food deliveries and doing home-renovation work while rehabbing a shoulder injury.
- Andrade has been sidelined since she injured the shoulder in her unanimous-decision loss to Loopy Godinez at UFC 319 in August 2025 and has not fought since that bout.
- She said she has some savings, that past U.S. income-tax issues from 2023 fights are being resolved, and that she will not move forward with the previously considered lawsuit against former coach and manager Gilliard Parana.
- Andrade is a 30-fight UFC veteran, a former strawweight champion with the promotion’s most post-fight bonuses, but she has gone 2-6 over her last eight fights, which has reduced her recent fight income.
- Her case underscores a wider pattern of UFC fighters using gig work to supplement pay during layoffs and rehab and may sharpen debate over fighter pay and support systems for injured athletes.