UFC

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UFC: Piera Rodriguez Has Put Nerves Behind Her Ahead of Sam ... (Cageside Press)

With her first UFC fight, and win, under her belt, strawweight Piera Rodriguez is no longer nervous, just excited for her October showdown with Sam Hughes.

“If they have talent and they are committed and they want to fight and they want to put the hard work [into] it, why not? It’s going to be a different fight, and it’s going to be a very exciting fight for sure.” “Let’s say it’s the same schedule every day of my life, training, training, training,” said Rodriguez, who defeated Kay Hansen at UFC 273 in April to announce her arrival in the UFC. “But now things are a little bit easier in my life, because I moved here to the U.S., now everything is a little bit more set up.

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Jamahal Hill Stays True (The Official Website of the Ultimate Fighting Championship)

“Here was this 19-year-old kid that showed up to the gym in basketball shorts looking to use the 30 days to stay in shape,” Pomeroy recalled. “He had run five ...

“I had all these doubts and all these if/ands and then I just said ‘f*** all that, I’m just going to go after this and see what’s going to happen. “I always knew this fight was coming,” Hill said. It’s that he’s always stayed true to himself and to the right people. “I’m going to make this happen. “I was like, ‘Oh s***, m************ really be on this level’,” Hill said. I wanted to be in the NBA or the NFL; that was always the dream. I want action, I want intensity, and I want it non-stop. “I want the people to know who I am, I want people to be interested and wonder how good I am. I think that’s what it’s going to be.” That was the higher power talking to me, letting me know that this is what I’m supposed to be doing.” “Here was this 19-year-old kid that showed up to the gym in basketball shorts looking to use the 30 days to stay in shape,” Pomeroy recalled. “The fact that we’ve reached this point that we’re headlining a card that was meant for us and everything that comes with that just means that we’re on the right track,” Hill said.

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