MMAjunkie<\/a> shortly after her win. \u201cI was very, very scared. Coming off three losses, all of them were losses where I just didn\u2019t show up, wake up. I felt out of it.<\/p>\n\u201cTo come in tonight, I wasn\u2019t sure who would show up. I really just wanted to dance my dance and try to feel her and try to stay off rhythm and be wild and crazy and me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI worked so hard for so long without any of the results I wanted,\u201d Zingano said. \u201cI\u2019m grateful for all the steps I took to get here. Although not all of them looked the way I wanted them to, it\u2019s all part of this. I\u2019m grateful and thankful, for everyone and everything along the way, and I\u2019m able to know myself through all of this, and it\u2019s nice to be here, and it\u2019s nice to feel myself again.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now that she’s back on track, Cat Zingano is shooting for the stars. She wants a title fight with reigning UFC bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes, who she defeated by TKO in 2014.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we\u2019ve got some unfinished business,\u201d Zingano said. \u201cI think it\u2019s weird for me to call her out. She should call me out. It drives me crazy seeing people that [I\u2019ve beaten] go on. She seems pretty not worried about me. But now that I\u2019m in the W column, she\u2019s got no reason not to lock horns with me again.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s good. She\u2019s been a good champion. She\u2019s been dominant. But she hasn\u2019t done a whole lot that I feel has evolved past what I\u2019ve done to her. It\u2019s time. The time\u2019s coming.\u201d<\/p>\n
Who do you want to see the resurgent Cat Zingano fight next?<\/p>\n
This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 7\/15\/2018. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cat Zingano entered her UFC Boise battle with Marion Reneau on a three-fight losing streak, having not won a bout since 2014. Needless to say, the pressure she felt to win was massive. So massive, that she admits she felt very scared ahead of the fight. In the end, of course, Zingano came out on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":280746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10093],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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