Dwelling is in which Paige VanZant’s coronary heart is.
On Monday, the 26-12 months-aged fighter uncovered she is back again in Portland, two days following falling to Amanda Ribas in UFC 251 at Fight Island in Abu Dhabi.
“My pleased location,” VanZant captioned an Instagram tale from her couch.
VanZant, who is anticipated to check the totally free-agency waters, held the positivity rolling Monday with a separate publish.
“The sunshine will rise, and we will consider once more,” she shared together with an Instagram selfie.
If Saturday’s fight towards Ribas was VanZant’s closing stand with UFC, she could find an chance with rivals Bellator or 1 Championship.
“I just come to feel like a regular extension is not what I want, and I want to demonstrate my value and my price — and I want a manufacturer-new contract,” VanZant formerly instructed ESPN. “And I’m really thrilled to get that possibility and seriously exam the no cost agency mainly because how do you know what your price is until you can go take a look at it among all the other sharks?”
UFC president Dana White inspired her to do so right after the decline to Ribas.
“Fighting inconsistently, just one time in the previous calendar year and her accidents,” White reported. “And then you bought smoked in the 1st round of this fight. She need to certainly test free company.”
VanZant said she financial institutions $46,000 base per fight, with a matching acquire bonus connected. The Instagram sensation’s internet value has also developed by means of outdoors endeavors.
“I built more dollars on ‘Dancing with the Stars’ than I have in my complete UFC profession merged,” VanZant explained of her 2016 look on the ABC clearly show. “Every battle, just about every earn, each reward.”
No matter VanZant’s following move, she’ll have the aid of her most loved trainer, husband Austin Vanderford.