{"id":308441,"date":"2019-04-03T17:09:06","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T00:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=308441"},"modified":"2019-04-03T17:09:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T00:09:07","slug":"sarah-kaufman-reflects-on-awkward-build-up-to-ronda-rousey-fight-that-included-latex-sex-suits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/professional-fighters-league\/sarah-kaufman-reflects-on-awkward-build-up-to-ronda-rousey-fight-that-included-latex-sex-suits\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Kaufman reflects on awkward build-up to Ronda Rousey fight that included ‘latex sex suits’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On February 26, 2010, Sarah Kaufman became the first ever Strikeforce bantamweight champion when she defeated Takayo Hashi via unanimous decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The champion would defend her title once against future top flyweight, Roxanne Modafferi before dropping it to Dutch pioneer, Marloes Coenen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three big wins later over Megumi Yabushita, Liz Carmouche, and Alexis Davis, and the inaugural champ would find herself set to challenge for the title once more… But this time it was against the new red-hot undefeated Judoka, Ronda Rousey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately for Kaufman, she would fall victim<\/g> as everyone did to Rousey back then by suffering defeat in the form of a first-round armbar in only 54 seconds. Fast forward seven years later and Kaufman would become the Invicta FC bantamweight champion now preparing for the Professional Fighters League’s (PFL) 155-pound lightweight tournament. Meanwhile, Rousey is off doing her thing in professional wrestling and retired from MMA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recently getting a chance to reflect on that fight and the build-up to it, Kaufman remembered a very odd part of the process that both fighters went through to get to the fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere were a lot of things going on there,\u201d Kaufman said on the Pull-No-Punches podcast<\/a> when recalling a fight promo they did for Showtime. \u201cWe had to wear latex sex suits with zipper crotches and gogo boots up to our knees. It was the most absurd photo shoot that I have ever done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was specifically told, \u2018we have this idea for the promo. It\u2019s going to be good vs. evil and Ronda is going to be in an all-black pleather suit. She is going to look so bad-ass\u2026 She\u2019s going to look like a movie star.\u2019 I said, \u2018okay, well what about me?\u2019 \u2018Well, you\u2019re the other one,\u2019 One of the palest fighters in the planet in an all-white pleather latex suit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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