{"id":295527,"date":"2018-12-20T07:01:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T15:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=295527"},"modified":"2018-12-20T07:01:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T15:01:28","slug":"paige-vanzant-praises-ufc-brooklyn-opponent-rachael-ostovich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/paige-vanzant-praises-ufc-brooklyn-opponent-rachael-ostovich\/","title":{"rendered":"Paige VanZant praises UFC Brooklyn opponent Rachael Ostovich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, UFC flyweight Rachael Ostovich was allegedly attacked by her husband, fellow fighter Arnold Berdon. This attack left Ostovich with a broken orbital bone, and cast doubt on her scheduled January 19 fight with Paige VanZant, which will serve as part of the UFC&#8217;s first card on ESPN+.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, however, a courageous and determined Rachael Ostovich decided she would stick with this fight with Paige VanZant \u2014 and VanZant is very impressed by that decision.<\/p>\n<p id=\"whM3ED\">\u201cOf course, I don\u2019t know all the details of what happened, I just knew a little bit,\u201d VanZant said of Ostovich in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2018\/12\/20\/18149745\/paige-vanzant-hopes-ufc-on-espn-fight-with-rachael-ostovich-can-show-how-strong-women-are\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMA Fighting<\/a>. \u201cBut I know that when she did come back and say, \u2018I want to fight anyway,\u2019 it gave me an alert, like \u2018Hey, this girl is really tough.\u2019 So I know I\u2019m fighting somebody that\u2019s very strong and very mentally strong, because she\u2019s gonna go in there and fight after going through some extreme trauma like this. It just tells me that I\u2019ve gotta be ready for the fight and be ready for somebody to come out there and have a lot to fight for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paige VanZant, who has survived some <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/paige-vanzant\/ufc-flyweight-paige-vanzant-opens-up-about-being-raped-in-new-book\/\">significant trauma<\/a> herself, hopes that this fight will serve as a opportunity to make a difference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefinitely, I would love to [speak out about these issues],\u201d she said. \u201cI hope that the UFC lets me and I hope the UFC really uses this to make a difference, because I know there has been other drama about the card and having <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/mma-community-scolds-ufc-for-booking-greg-hardy-and-rachael-ostovich-on-the-same-card\/\">some fighters<\/a> on it. But I hope they use this moment to show powerful women, whether it just be her or whether it be both of us. To show you can fight through adversity and you can fight through these demons and still be a very successful person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 12\/20\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, UFC flyweight Rachael Ostovich was allegedly attacked by her husband, fellow fighter Arnold Berdon. This attack left Ostovich with a broken orbital bone, and cast doubt on her scheduled January 19 fight with Paige VanZant, which will serve as part of the UFC&#8217;s first card on ESPN+. 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