Crazy Godinez recounts difficult lead-up to UFC Mexico Metropolis
The difficulty really started earlier than Godinez stepped on the size.
“Now that I’m placing plenty of the stuff collectively, all the things is smart,” the UFC strawweight recounted. “So, I used to be just about sick after I go into the battle. [Before the fight] I went for a stroll, and I used to be getting the chills. I inform my coach ‘I’m so chilly, I really feel bizarre,’ and he’s prefer it’s as a result of your physique fats is so low.
“It was like bizarre chills while you’re getting sick, however I used to be like ‘there is no such thing as a approach I’m placing that into my mind that I’m getting sick proper now. I’m not doing that to myself.’ So I’m like ‘perhaps I’m simply sick, my physique fats is just too low.’”
The difficulty then continued after she efficiently weighed in — a feat in itself contemplating how she felt. Sadly, it additionally persevered till she was within the cage.
“My abdomen wasn’t nice, after I began [re]hydrating,” she mentioned. “I used to be like ‘oh it’s okay, it’s in all probability as a result of my physique is making an attempt to assimilate from nothing to some meals and consuming. I’ll get higher.’ Then I went to sleep and my abdomen was nonetheless not feeling nice. I used to be having the s**ts, I suppose, all of that Friday day, and in a single day, and within the morning, after which earlier than popping out to go to the battle.
“I didn’t say something, I used to be identical to ‘suck it up, it’s what it’s,’” the UFC star added. “Then within the cage, within the second spherical, I felt one thing. When one thing is going on, I simply [say] it like that, with no filters, I suppose. So, it got here out, and [when] it occurred, the digicam was proper [up close].
“I don’t care. It’s what it’s. Fighters and people undergo it. Some individuals discuss greater than others. It simply occurred that approach.”
The excellent news is that Godinez is feeling higher within the wake of her newest UFC battle. The truth is, she says the circumstances she handled made her win even sweeter.
“My abdomen nonetheless feels bizarre, however I really feel prefer it’s just a little bit higher,” she mentioned. “It makes it sweeter. It makes so nice.”
Had issues gone otherwise, Godinez would really not have been the primary to cope with such an expertise. Justine Kish infamously had worse luck again in 2017, and that’s not the one instance within the MMA file books.
Crazy Godinez has gone 8-5 since becoming a member of the UFC roster in 2021. She is one in all most lively fighters on the roster, and clearly can’t be deterred by a lot. Some fighters may in all probability study a factor or two from her.
