If I could have had the opportunity to be a full-time fighter while I was one of the best in the world, what could I have done then?
I don't care what Dana White thinks.
I was going to school; I was working - at one point, I had two jobs - and I was still trying to train and fight.
You know how you defeat chaos? You suck the air out of it and put it to sleep.
I discover a lot of things on my own.
Anyone who is friends with a fighter or lives with a fighter, you know that a fighter cutting weight is on edge.
I think seeing me cross over to pro wrestling and having fun - I get up in the morning, and I'm not a morning person. My alarm goes off, and I'm back out and training again.
It's hard to simulate the things that I do.
I've faced the undefeated, young up-and-comers, everybody counting me out before, on a big card, with big lights, TV.
I had a little gut check, and ultimately, I grew up as far as my MMA mentality and am more mature now.
Look at something like boxing. People know that some fights are fixed, but nobody looks at a boxing match and automatically assumes it's fake.
Because I've been around the MMA block a little bit, I'm at a point now where I just want bodies to beat up. I'm past the point in my career where I'm picking and choosing.
WWE is something I've had my eye on.
It's not like I'm training every day by doing an avalanche suplex off the top turnbuckle.
Don't talk to me about how I haven't done anything to prove myself. I'm not worth anything. Like, seriously, do your history first, then come up with something smarter than things that are blatantly not true.
'Final Fantasy VII' is my favorite video game, and I had a conversation on Up Up Down Down, and I don't wanna say who is my favorite character, but my default would be Sephiroth.
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.
