Signing with the UFC meant more to Nina Ansaroff than it does for most fighters.
Being picked up by the biggest promotion in the sport not only gave the Team Guardian’ strawweight a venue to showcase her skills for, ideally, the rest of her career — but it saved her fighting career as she knows it.
Signing with the UFC means everything to me, really, says Ansaroff, a winner in five straight fights.
Before signing with the UFC, I was about to hang it up and leave the sport, and go back to working in an office. It’s very difficult to make ends meet in this sport when you aren’t fighting with the UFC — and that was obviously very stressful to me, as it would be for anyone.
I couldn’t be happier to fight with the UFC. It’s not just an honor, but it really saved my career because, as much as I love to fight and put on a great show, I was really out of other options.
But Ansaroff isn’t just happy to be under the UFC umbrella; the MMA Masters product signed with the UFC to bring the 115-pound belt back home to Miami.
That’s definitely my goal, says Ansaroff, who’s set to make her highly anticipated Octagon debut in November against Juliana Lima in Brazil.
I couldn’t be happier to be with the UFC — but winning decisively and getting that belt is what’s going to make me very, very happy.
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