Modafferi: TUF changed my career
Roxanne was a long time veteran by the time she entered the Ultimate Fighter house and although she didn’t find success on the reality, credits her time there with changing her career.
Roxanne was a long time veteran by the time she entered the Ultimate Fighter house and although she didn’t find success on the reality, credits her time there with changing her career:
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“Yeah, it really changed my life,” she told Ariel Helwani on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour. “And I knew that win to get in the house [against Valerie Letourneau] was the most important win of my career I think.”
Modafferi (19-12) said came to the realization that she had overstayed her welcome living in Japan.
“Yeah, I think so,” she said. “But I’d have had no way of knowing that until I came to The Ultimate Fighter. So how it happened is how it was meant to happen. If I’d have came back, I might gave joined another gym, but it just so happened that it fell into place.
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