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Roxy Modafferi on Her Wild MMA Debut

Wrestling

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Panoorin Ngayon

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Roxy Roman (Modafferi) breaks down her insane first steps into MMA while living in Japan. She moved there to master the language, ended up teaching English all day, and somehow got thrown into her first fight way before she was ready. From the early days of Smack Girl, puffy gloves, 30-second ground rules, and glittery costumes… to taking her opponent down and arm-barring her in her debut—Roxy tells the wild story of how women’s MMA in Japan really was.