“I really believe I’m capable of amazing things,” Lauren Murphy boasts to defeat Valentina Shevchenko at UFC 266
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The UFC women’s Flyweight champion, Valentina Shevchenko, will defend her title against number 3rd ranked women’s Flyweight fighter, Lauren Murphy, in the co-main event of UFC 266.
Shevchenko is one of the most dominating champions in UFC history and Murphy is a sizable underdog entering into this fight. She is coming into this fight with a five-fight winning streak with her latest win coming against Joanne Calderwood at UFC 263.
Valentina Shevchenko is a brute force in the division that fears no one. Still, Lauren Murphy believes she has what it takes to beat her. In her latest interview with MMA Junkie, Murphy says,
“The mental training is most important, Fighting is like 100 percent mental, and obviously that’s only partially true, but I think in all of the sports if you’re mind is in the right place, you’re capable of doing incredible things, and that’s really why I started this journey way back in the day.”
“I really wanted to know what I was capable of. That’s why I took my first fight ever because I wanted to know if I could do it, like how much I have. Am I capable of doing something like that, and that goal post has been moved so much throughout my career, so that’s always the question I’m asking myself, is what am I capable of,”
Lauren Murphy added, “over the last 10, 12 years, I’ve really surprised myself, and I’ve surprised the people around me, and it’s been an incredible journey. I don’t think it’s going to end on Sept. 25 either. I really believe I’m capable of amazing things.” {H/T MMA Junkie}
Lauren Murphy claims her confidence is going to be the key to beat Shevchenko
Lauren Murphy holds a record of 7-4 in UFC and she has defeated many of the tough challenges in the division to get earn her first title shot. Now she believes this confidence is going to be the key to defeat Valentina Shevchenko at UFC 266.
Murphy continued, “It’s definitely something that I struggled with even before I was fighting, The way I grew up, the way I was raised, positivity was not something that I learned to value the whole time I was growing up, I’ve learned to value the power of positivity since I started fighting,”
“I’m really putting it into practice and minding what I say and minding my thoughts and doing mental exercises like meditation and a lot of visualization and stuff like that. But the power of positivity is real, and it’s changed my life actually.” {H/T MMA Junkie}
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