Becoming a champion is never an easy thing to achieve no matter the sport. In MMA however, it may be even harder than most as the fighters are simply relying on themselves to get their jobs done.
Sure, they have the teams that help them get to the dance. That’s in a different sense though as the team doesn’t follow them directly into battle as on fight night, they’re literally alone in a cage looking to leave as the last one standing.
For the Arkansas born Jinh Yu Frey, she began her professional MMA career as a champion and she finds herself as one now too.
After finally putting her recent rivalry with Minna Grusander to bed at Invicta FC 33, she has solidified her spot as the atomweight champion.
“I feel a lot of relief. There was a lot of stress coming into [this last] fight,” Frey told BJPenn.com. “I felt a lot of pressure. There were a lot of naysayers from the first [fight] and I just had a lot of stuff going on in my personal life.
“It definitely took a lot of perseverance to get through it but I made it, I did what I needed to do. Now [it’s] just kind of relaxing a little bit trying to take in the moment and take a load off.”
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