Paige VanZant on Rose Namajunas, Sage Northcutt, Accusations of UFC grooming her
- Posted by tessie on Nov 01, 2015
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Paige VanZant makes her first appearance on Submission Radio and discusses her fight against Rose Namajunas in the main event of Fight Night Las Vegas: Namajunas vs VanZant.
Paige talks about the sacrifices she's made to get to the UFC, her past as a model and dancer, training to be a fighter while her friends were going out and partying, how it feels to have money and be so young and independent, meeting Sage Northcutt and the comparisons to Ken and Barbie, being marketed around her looks, detractors of her and her exclusive Reebok deal, Angela Hill's comments about her original fight with Joanna Calderwood being lackluster and that she is being groomed by the UFC, the recent switch in opponent to Rose Namajunas, what advantages she has against Rose and what she's had to change in training camp, how it feels to be main-eventing