Former UFC fighter Paige VanZant greater than probably is not going to be competing professionally in combined martial arts once more. The star who later turned to energy slap, naked knuckle preventing, boxing, {and professional} wrestling spoke with MMA Junkie Radio about why MMA is likely to be previously.
“I don’t ever prefer to say I’m closing the door 100%, however I do see it might be laborious for me to return into MMA,” she stated. “Not as a result of I don’t like it, or not as a result of I don’t have a ardour for it nonetheless. However like I stated, I broke my arm 5 occasions in my life and 4 occasions in mainly two years of competing. I had two surgical procedures on it, and I nonetheless have an enormous plate that runs the size of my whole forearm.
“So simply going again to that place of risking breaking my arm once more and having surgical procedure once more and getting set again? I can nonetheless have the joys of competing, and I can nonetheless get that rush with out placing my physique in danger. I’m advantageous if I break my arm, it’s actually simply the psychological fortitude, I don’t know if I can push via that once more. It was a extremely, actually tough few years.”
