I love rock and roll and loved getting on wrestling mats since I was six, and I have never been ashamed of it.

In MMA, there isn't time to admire your work until it's all over with. In sports-entertainment, I can admire what I'm doing while it's happening.

I have always had a desire to prove people that looked past me wrong, whether it was because I was a female trying to wrestle or fight in MMA or because I grew up on the wrong side of town.

Everything I've gotten, I've had to work twice as hard to earn.

Who says what is the right way and what isn't? That is some imagined social construct that people made up to feel okay about being average.

I did some really heavy, intensive clinics with Billy Robinson. Anyone that knows anything about Billy, he was a mean old dude! I survived training with him and Josh Barnett, right in the same vein, my head coach for, like, 12 years.