LAS VEGAS – Yuneisy Duben had all of it mapped out.
The knockout that received Duben (6-0) a UFC contract at Tuesday’s Dana White’s Contender Collection 70 would possibly’ve been a shock to the MMA world and a large upset to the oddsmakers, however not for the undefeated Venezuelan. Duben put out the lights on Shannon Clark (5-1) with a brutal proper hand that left Clark stiff on the canvas. It was a brutal end and one which she noticed coming.
“Not simply there (backstage) but additionally in my goals and my ideas,” Duben instructed reporters on the DWCS 70 post-fight information convention. “Day-after-day I used to be visualizing that. Proper within the locker room, I used to be saying to myself, ‘I’m going to knock her out. I’m going to knock her out.’ I might increase my very own hand, and I simply all the time had that in thoughts, and that’s what occurred.”
Incomes a UFC contract and a first-round end is the perfect end result for the fighters competing at DWCS. Nonetheless, that second was further particular for Duben as she comes from an impoverished household.
“For me, making a reputation for myself and being the one one in my household, each from my mother and pa’s aspect, to have this a lot success,” Duben stated. “My household is just not nicely economically, and now they’ve a member of the family that’s well-known, and that’s doing issues nicely.”
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