Lauren Murphy opened up the UFC Long Island main card this past weekend with a dominant unanimous decision win over fellow veteran Miesha Tate. Speaking to the media post-fight, Murphy claimed that she won because she’s a “bad motherf******”.
“I think all the wins are satisfying in one way or another. No, I could sit here all day and talk about the cool experiences that I’ve had fighting and in the UFC. Even back in Alaska, one of my first fights was for the Alaska Fighting Championship championship, and honestly, I don’t know if any fight will ever top that one because it was one of my first big moments.
Lauren Murphy on Miesha Tate Win: “I’m a bad motherf*****”
This is up there. This is a great day. Those are some great moments. I’m very happy right now and I think part of it, too, is that I’m not — like, there’s been big victories that I’ve had where I’m almost in disbelief. Like, ‘I can’t believe I won that. That’s f****** amazing.’ Right now I feel like, ‘Yeah, I won that because I’m a badass. I’m a bad motherf*****.’ I have the ability to win fights like that and I feel like I’m right where I belong.”
Lauren Murphy has won six of her last seven fights, with that sole loss coming at the hands of Valentina Shevchenko, the flyweight champ. Considering that Shevchenko is one of the finest female fighters ever to grace the Octagon, Murphy isn’t ashamed of that stat, and insists that she’s learned a lot from every single fight.
“I learned so much. I learned a lot about confidence and so I really worked on changing the way that I talk to myself, changing the way that I think about myself, changing the way that I carry myself. Like I just said earlier, it’s not a surprise to me now that I could come out with a victory like this. It wasn’t an accident. I’m a very talented fighter. I always have been. I’m a great f****** athlete. I have phenomenal genetics.
I’ve done amazing things in this sport that, when I really sit down and think about, I’m like, ‘Damn.’ I didn’t even start MMA until I was 26. I’d never played a sport before. I never played sports growing up in school. I was not an athlete.
I smoked a pack a day. I took pills. I was a trainwreck of a human being and I walked into a jiu-jitsu gym one day, and four years later I was in the UFC fighting world title contenders and Olympians and women that had grown up fighting. Not only was I fighting them, but I was hanging with them, I was doing just fine. Then six years after that, I fought for the UFC world championship. That’s a f****** incredible story. That’s pretty f****** amazing.”
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