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Lauren Murphy explained why she nearly pulled out of her UFC 266 title fight with UFC women’s flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko.<\/p>\n

Murphy fought Shevchenko in the co-main event of this past Saturday’s UFC 266 PPV card<\/a>, and she ended up losing the fight via fourth-round TKO. It was not a good performance by Murphy, but she says one of the reasons for that is because she didn’t have her head coach, Alex Cisne, in her corner for the fight. Her coach tested positive for COVID-19 just days before the fight and Murphy was forced to fight Shevchenko without her coach.<\/p>\n

Speaking to MMAFighting.com<\/a>, Murphy explained why she nearly pulled out of the UFC 266 title fight and why she ultimately made the decision to keep on competing for the belt.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we found out on Tuesday that he tested positive, the UFC quarantined him and made him leave the fighter hotel and that he couldn\u2019t corner me on Saturday, at first, we were thinking we would pull out of the fight. I was like, \u2018I need to have my coach there.\u2019 I don\u2019t know, we just ended up deciding not to. I was healthy, I didn\u2019t have any injuries, I wasn\u2019t sick. The odds of me showing up to a title fight being in that good of health probably weren\u2019t very good and I thought, \u2018If I pull out of the fight, what would happen?\u2019 They\u2019d probably put Cynthia [Calvillo] in because Valentina would still want to fight, then I\u2019d probably have to fight another No. 1 contender fight just to get back to the title again,” Murphy said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy manager was staying in the hotel with us and we all sat down as a team wondering if we should all go forward, because that\u2019s my head coach. Derrick Lewis wouldn\u2019t fight without Bob Perez in his corner. Would Valentina fight if f*cking Pavel [Fedotov] tested for COVID? I don\u2019t know, but it was a hard choice to make but we were pretty close to calling it. I slept on it to see where we were at Wednesday morning, and I just felt like I had to do it. I didn\u2019t know what the reaction would be if I pulled out of the fight.”<\/p>\n

Do you think Lauren Murphy should have pulled out of UFC 266 once her coach was not able to be in her corner?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lauren Murphy explained why she nearly pulled out of her UFC 266 title fight with UFC women’s flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko. Murphy fought Shevchenko in the co-main event of this past Saturday’s UFC 266 PPV card, and she ended up losing the fight via fourth-round TKO. 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