Fighter vs. Writer: Lauren Murphy Talks Triller Madness with Anderson Silva, Vitor Belfort, Plus Gable Steveson and Fight with Valentina Shevchenko

MMA Fighting

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🗓️ 14 September 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Lauren Murphy joins The Fighter vs. The Writer in episode 4 as she discusses the recent Triller card where Vitor Belfort finished Evander Holyfield and Anderson Silva knocked out Tito Ortiz plus did the UFC make a mistake not pursuing Olympic gold medalist Gable Steveson for a contract? Plus Murphy will discuss her own upcoming fight against Valentina Shevchenko and her prospects for pulling off the upset to become UFC flyweight champion. Follow Damon Martin @DamonMartin Follow Lauren Murphy @LaurenMurphyMMA PODCAST LINKS Subscribe: http://goo.gl/dYpsgH Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/u8VvLi Visit our playlists: http://goo.gl/eFhsvM Like MMAF on Facebook: http://goo.gl/uhdg7Z Follow on Twitter: http://goo.gl/nOATUI Read More: http://www.mmafighting.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:22.1	Welcome back to The Fighter vs. The Rider IM, your host Damon Martin and today, my special
0:27.9	guest co-host and I do say special because she's about to compete for UFC gold against Valentina
0:34.2	Shochinko for the flyweight title and a matter of days right now.
0:38.2	Let me welcome in Lauren Murphy, Lauren, how are you and are you excited when you hear
0:42.7	that?
0:43.7	Yeah, it is exciting, I'm looking forward to fight with you, I love fight week and this
0:48.8	one's going to be like extra cool, you know, so I'm pretty jacked up, I've been really
0:53.8	in shape, I've been having good sparring sessions, just really been enjoying the last little
1:00.0	bit of camp and you know, we've done this so many times now that it's like really kind
1:04.7	of learned how to relax into the process and enjoy it and I think I'm enjoying the process
1:10.3	more than I ever have, so it's been, it's been cool, I'm looking forward to the rest
1:14.3	of it too.
1:15.3	Yeah, you have, you know, obviously you've been, you know, in this sport for a while,
1:19.8	you've accomplished great things, you fought everybody, but what does it mean to you to
1:24.6	finally get a chance to compete for a UFC title because not every fighter dreams of this,
1:29.9	not, you know, some fighters are just in for the money and that's fine, but what does
1:33.5	it mean to you to finally get a chance to compete for UFC gold?
1:37.0	You know, it just pays off, like perseverance pays off and I think that's not only been
1:52.8	this story kind of of my fight career, the story, even before you know, picked myself
1:59.4	back up and try hard and there's been times in my fight career where I've had some like
2:05.3	pretty humiliating defeats and had some setbacks and some roadblocks and it's like some
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