Heading into her upcoming fight on Saturday, Megan Anderson has found a new lease on life.<\/p>\n
The now 30-year-old will face the unbeaten Octagon debutante Norma Dumont at UFC on ESPN+ 27. The event takes place at the Chartway Arena in Norfolk, Va. and will be headlined by Joseph Benavidez and Deiveson Figureiredo battling for the vacant UFC flyweight title.<\/p>\n
Following a first-round submission loss to Felicia Spencer at UFC Rochester<\/a> in May, Anderson bounced back with an opening-round submission win of her own against Zarah Fairn at UFC 243<\/a>.<\/p>\n In that fight, Megan Anderson looked and felt as comfortable as she has felt in her UFC career and a lot of that had to do with a newfound mentality. On the road to turning 30 years of age, and after a lot of soul searching, something just clicked.<\/p>\n “It’s really funny because when I turned 29, I flew home and I surprised my parents for my 29th birthday and I was absolutely dreading [turning] 30,” Anderson told BJPENN.com<\/a>. “I was like, ‘oh my god’. All of the milestones I expected myself to have by the time I turned 30, I was nowhere even close to that happening. Then the Rochester fight happened and I was like, ‘well, s**t! This is my career, what the f**k is going on with that?’ I was dreading 30 so bad.<\/p>\n “Over the last, I would say, three to six months, I just hit a different kind of vibe,” Anderson said. “I just don’t give a s**t, anymore. I really don’t. I have this great sense of who I am and the type of person that I am, the positivity that I want to surround myself with. I really kind of felt that my patience, hard work and dedication is going to pay off. Big things are still to come and I’m ready for when it happens.”<\/p>\n