Namajunas lost the fight by unanimous decision. Namajunas fought fellow undefeated prospect Tecia Torres at Invicta FC 6: Coenen vs. This performance garnered Namajunas her second Invicta Submission of the Night award. She won the fight by submission due to a flying armbar just 12 seconds into the first round.
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In her second professional appearance, Namajunas faced Kathina Catron at Invicta FC 5: Penne vs.
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The victory in her pro debut also earned her the Submission of the Night bonus. After two back-and-forth rounds, Namajunas was able to secure the victory via submission due to a rear-naked choke in round three. She made her professional debut against Emily Kagan at Invicta FC 4: Esparza vs. Both of the finishes came in the first round. She racked up a perfect amateur record of 4–0 with 2 wins by TKO and 2 by decision. She trained under Greg Nelson at Minnesota Martial Arts Academy. Namajunas began competing in MMA as an amateur in 2010. While in high school, she started training in kickboxing and mixed martial arts with Duke Roufus at Roufusport, and she was also a senior-year wrestler at Milwaukee High School of the Arts. After that, she went on to practice both karate and bjj. She earned her poom belt (junior black belt) at age 9. Rose started practicing taekwondo at the age of 5. She graduated from Milwaukee High School of the Arts, where she was an accomplished cross-country runner. Namajunas has mentioned being a victim of child sexual abuse, while emphasizing that she does not want to speak about specific details.
Her neighborhood friends nicknamed her "Thug Rose", due to the fact that she was the only white girl among them and was the smallest, yet she was the toughest one in their friend group. Her mother worked a lot and her brother was only rarely home.
Namajunas grew up in Milwaukee in a tough neighborhood, where she was a witness to violence from a young age. Her mother was a pianist, trained at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. Namajunas's father Arturas, who suffered from schizophrenia, left the family when Rose was still young and died of pneumonia in Germany in 2008, when Rose was 16. Namajunas regularly visits Lithuania and communicates in the Lithuanian language with her grandparents. Namajunas's grandfather Algimantas Andriukonis was a successful wrestler, and won national championships in Lithuania and competitions in the USSR. He was killed by Soviet KGB agents near his home in 1968. When the Soviets re-occupied Lithuania, Juozas was arrested by the NKVD and sent to a prison camp. Following the German declaration of war on the Soviet Union and the subsequent Soviet retreat from the Baltic states, Juozas left the Red Army and retired to civilian life.
After the Soviets occupied the country, Juozas was forced to enlist in the Red Army.
During the Soviet invasion of Lithuania in 1939, he fought in the resistance. He enlisted in the Lithuanian military in 1933, and was promoted to lieutenant in 1936. She was named Rose ( Lithuanian: Rožė) in honor of her great-grandmother Rožė Gotšalkaitė Namajūnienė, whose husband Juozas was an Independent Lithuania military officer. Namajunas was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on ( )June 29, 1992, to Lithuanian parents who had moved to the United States in September 1991.
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