Joanne Calderwood was given the kind of news most sports stars spend their lives dreaming of in Stockholm today.

She was part of a panel of fighters delivering the UFC's upcoming European schedule of events, and she was given the honour of announcing that the world's biggest MMA promotion is coming to Scotland.

UFC Fight Night Glasgow takes place at The Hydro on Saturday, July 18 - and Calderwood is a certainty to be one of the main events on the card.

It doesn't get any bigger than this.

But Calderwood took mere seconds to mention how important this news is to the wider MMA community in Scotland. Rather than focus on what it might mean for her own career, she talked about young, up-and-coming fighters and the benefit the UFC's presence might bring to the city.

She said: "What I hope most of all is that the UFC coming to Glasgow will help build the grassroots in the city and in Scotland and open doors for some of the young talent coming through.

"MMA has been a bit quiet in Scotland in the last few years and a lot of my team mates are having to travel away from Scotland to fight. If the UFC holds a really amazing event - which it will - that will inspire other promotions to start holding shows in Glasgow again and that will open the door for local fighters.

"I've been in Stockholm this week, building up to this announcement, and the UFC sent us out to work with some local kids at a gym. After we trained with them for a while, we handed over a cheque to the gym and I would really love to be involved in something similar in Glasgow when the UFC are in town. The faces on those children... it was priceless."

Calderwood is right about the lull in Scottish MMA in recent years. The apparent demise of On Top Promotions and the downsizing of SFC after a short-lived partnership with Swedish organisation Vision, took some of the shine off the scene, which was incredibly vibrant as recently as 2012.

UFC Fight Night Glasgow will give Scottish MMA a much-needed adrenaline shot.

But as reluctant as she may be to talk about herself, Joanne is looking at an opportunity very few fighters will ever have. It isn't beyond the realms of possibility that her fight ends up being the main event in Glasgow. Win that fight, and surely a shot at the 115lb world title beckons.

With one win to her name already in the UFC, she is in prime position to make a run at the belt. And few would bet against her eventually winning it.

She added: "I think the Hydro date might a bit too soon for me to fight for the title, I'd need to squeeze in a fight before then I think. But who knows. And if I were to win the title, say in the US or elsewhere, it would be absolutely amazing to then defend it in Glasgow at a future UFC event. That really would be the dream come true.

"I don't know if I can really out into words what it would mean to me to fight for the UFC in Glasgow. I have fought at the Kelvin Hall in Glasgow for another MMA promotion and I still watch that video back and get goosebumps."

"Fighting at the Hydro and for the UFC would be unbeatable.

"I get great support when I fight in the USA, but to have all my friends and family there in the crowd will make it amazing. They can't always afford to travel around the world to see me fight, so this will be a chance for them all to be there and to cheer me on live."

A trailblazer for women's MMA in Scotland, she - along with Dinky Ninja Fight Team team mate Robert Whiteford - is the face of Scottish MMA.

In July, that face will be plastered on billboards all around the city as the greatest show on earth finally - finally - comes to Scotland.