MMA fighter Vanessa Demopoulos on her journey from stripper to UFC strawweight contender, and recalls choking out punters who refused to pay
UFC star Vanessa Demopoulos used her MMA skills to choke out unruly customers during her days as a stripper.
“I used to fight a lot when I was in school and I actually got kicked out of a lot of schools for fighting when I was young. “So, I was like, ‘Cool. Teach me how to fight.’ That was when I was 21 years old, and I never looked back. I loved it!Dana White and Turki Alalshikh have very different plans to combat illegal streamingDana White takes Jon Jones pound-for-pound campaign to the next level with TV advert
Demopoulos took a major risk leaving behind a lucrative career to focus on MMA, but it’s paid off and now she’s hoping to climb the 115lb division, which is currently reigned over by Weili Zhang.
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