Former UFC fighter Paige VanZant greater than possible is not going to be competing professionally in blended martial arts once more. The star who later turned to energy slap, naked knuckle combating, boxing, {and professional} wrestling spoke with MMA Junkie Radio about why MMA could be prior to now.
“I don’t ever wish to say I’m closing the door 100%, however I do see it will be exhausting for me to return into MMA,” she mentioned. “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 mentioned, I broke my arm 5 instances in my life and 4 instances 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 effective if I break my arm, it’s actually simply the psychological fortitude, I don’t know if I can push by means of that once more. It was a very, actually tough few years.”
