{"id":127444,"date":"2015-01-27T11:59:24","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T19:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=127444"},"modified":"2022-02-04T19:53:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T03:53:10","slug":"mcmann-says-rousey-fight-saved-dads-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/mcmann-says-rousey-fight-saved-dads-life\/","title":{"rendered":"McMann Explains How Rousey Fight Saved Her Father&#8217;s Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Sara-McMann-Wins.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-127388\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Sara-McMann-Wins.png\" alt=\"Sara-McMann-Wins\" width=\"484\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Sara-McMann-Wins.png 730w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Sara-McMann-Wins-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Sara-McMann-Wins-585x305.png 585w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Sara-McMann-Wins-390x203.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;He chose not to do chemotherapy, so he was just choosing that he was going to live with the cancer until it killed him\u2026and the cancer that had come back was very aggressive.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;He\u2019d gone months of deciding that he wasn\u2019t going to go through chemotherapy and he wasn\u2019t going to live. The fight happened, and it was basically presented to me as, if you don\u2019t take this fight you may never get a chance to fight Ronda, that she may go into movies and this might be the only opportunity. I was really struggling with it, because I hadn\u2019t been training. Things were really hard for me emotionally. I\u2019m a huge daddy\u2019s girl, so it was really hard for me.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;But when I accepted the fight, he was the first person I told about it. And he decided because of [the title fight], he was going to go through chemotherapy because he didn\u2019t want to die before he got to see me fight.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>During a recent chat with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2015\/1\/26\/7917879\/sara-mcmann-title-fight-against-rousey-helped-save-her-father-s-life\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;The MMA Hour&#8221;<\/a> UFC 183&#8217;s Sara McMann talked about the title fight that saved her father&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p>Following his treatments, we&#8217;re happy to say that her father&#8217;s cancer is now in remission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;He chose not to do chemotherapy, so he was just choosing that he was going to live with the cancer until it killed him\u2026and the cancer that had come back was very aggressive.&#8221; &#8220;He\u2019d gone months of deciding that he wasn\u2019t going to go through chemotherapy and he wasn\u2019t going to live. 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