Paige VanZant (6-2) blev besegrad av Rose Namajunas (4-2) via submission på UFC Fight Night 80 och nu berättar VanZant om den oväntade responsen hon fick efter matchen.
VanZant berättar att hon inte hade förväntat sig att få så mycket stöd då hon kände att hon hade gjort bort sig själv under matchen. VanZant förklarar att stödet har fått henne att må bra då hon inte fick så mycket kritik.
”I think it’s awesome,” sa VanZant. ”I don’t know. I thought it was awesome. I was just looking to see how bad the cut was or where it was, because I wasn’t really sure. I saw it was under my eye, so it was good to go for the next five rounds or four rounds.”
”I really didn’t expect that much support,” sa VanZant. ”I thought I embarrassed myself out there and I put on an embarrassing performance. But then afterward I had all these positive articles. I was reading all these positive things after the fight. It felt really good, especially after taking a loss not to take a ton of criticism for it. It was really neat that I still had a lot of fans come forward and my stock grew even after a loss.”
VanZant förklarar också att hon hade så mycket blod i öronen att hon var tvungen att rensa öronen från blod under de kommande tre veckorna efter matchen mot Namajunas.
”Especially because we did go to the ground a lot, I couldn’t see at all,” sa VanZant. ”And the blood completely filled my ears. I was cleaning blood out of my ears for three weeks after the fight. So I couldn’t hear anything. I couldn’t hear anything, I couldn’t see anything. No excuses. But yeah — a lot of blood.”
VanZant berättar att matchen mot Namajunas var ett bra test för henne och att hon inte kommer att ge upp.
”I have a no-give-up attitude,” sa VanZant. ”It didn’t surprise me in that sense, but it was definitely a good test.”
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