Russian woman competing in the UFC Daria Zhelezniakova spoke to about the peculiarities of admitting women to professional fights.
Previously, 28-year-old Zheleznyakova was involved in boxing and moved to MMA, making her first fight in 2019. On March 23, at a tournament in Las Vegas, Zheleznyakova made her UFC debut, inflicting her first defeat to the Mexican Montserrat Rendon.
— Did I understand correctly that one of the main medical differences between women and men in the UFC is the mandatory pregnancy test?
– Yes exactly. When I fought in Ares, we simply signed a document stating that we were not pregnant. And now we arrived and first went to the hospital, where they took blood from me for hCG. Everything is super official.
— Can you afford manicures and long nails with your volume of sparring and regular performances?
— I love manicures and I always do them [показывает ровные белые ногти]. But I don’t like extended nails and I usually file mine. It’s true, before the Ares fight, the cutmen made fun of me: they cut my nails to the point that I bled. I was unlucky: I have a very long nail plate sticking out from my finger. And it’s very dangerous because I can scratch my opponent. And now, before the fight in the UFC, a cutman girl was filing my nails with a file, we approached a special person, he checked. The first time he didn’t like it, he asked to file it again and only the third time he agreed to our new manicure… which looked very scary – everything was filed, the nail plate was slightly damaged,” Zheleznyakova told Match. TV.
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