UFC commentator Laura Sanko is open about her short-term fighting career.
The 42-year-old went 6-1 in amateur MMA before he became professional with Invicta FC in 2013.
Laura Sanko locked a coded choke entry to beat Cassie Robb in two rounds.
After that, the fan's favorite never fought again, even though she supported a 'solid run' when the UFC created a atom weight division.
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Laura Sanko explains 1-0 MMA career
12 years after her Pro-MMA debut, Sanko is generally considered one of the best broadcasters in MMA.
The former hunter, who has entered the nickname 'Fancy', is the only woman who currently comments on UFC fights – but there is a broad curiosity about what would have happened if she had fully committed herself to competing.
During a conversation with the recently Axed coach of Sean Strickland, Eric Nicksick, Sanko discussed the thinking process behind her one-Fight career.
“It is always a problem to a certain extent,” she said when he was asked if a lack of viable opponents put forward her retirement. “But at that moment, you know, once I fought for Invicta, they would do all the work, and they had a handful of good atomic weights.”
“That was really the top of the mountain. If you are a atomic weight, this is it. You were there, so that was the atmosphere, I am here. I'm going to get the best of this.
“It is not as if I thought I would be a superstar. I knew what it was, but I thought it was great. It was never about making money or being known, because that wasn't even a possibility when I fought.”
Laura Sanko remembers the first Charles Oliveira meeting
More than ten years ago, Sanko trained with Plinio Cruz, who helped Alex Pereira to become a pound-for-pound UFC-Superster.
When Sanko recalled her time that worked with Cruz, she told a great story about the very first time she saw Charles Oliveira in the training room.
“Funny story,” Sanko started.
“I remember teaching in a gym in the city, but he was part of the gold team system of Macaco in New Jersey, where all Brazilians lived every now and then, he would be like 'hey, we are going to take a group and we are going to train at Macaco this weekend, so come a train with us and go outside'.
“And I remember once, we went outside and he was something like:” Do you see that child there in the corner? That boy, that child will be champion one day “… I look around, and there is a thin, dorky, coke-base glass that sits there and I am” okay, sure, it seems. “
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