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A Day with Sara McMann
Sara McMann gives MMA Fighting's Esther Lin exclusive access into her busy fight week preparations before Saturday's main event clash against Ronda Rousey.
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A Day with Sara McMann
UFC bantamweight title challenger Sara McMann starts the first morning of fight week relaxing her in her room.
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A Day with Sara McMann
McMann explains that while cutting weight, the actual weight of the food is very important so she tries to stick to small, dense foods that will keep her feeling full.
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A Day with Sara McMann
McMann enjoys a few grapes while chatting with her coach, Jimmy Fowler. When I moved to this side of the room to shoot, Fowler joked, "Oh good, you'll get my good ear," pointing to his nearly shut cauliflowered right ear.
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A Day with Sara McMann
Before going to open workouts, McMann decides to get in a good technical workout session with her coach.
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A Day with Sara McMann
McMann drills grappling techniques with her coach.
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A Day With Sara McMann
After a near brush with Sara's bony elbows, McMann explains to her coach that in her pro debut against Christina Marks, the first elbow she threw on Marks created a huge bump.
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A Day With Sara McMann
Sara McMann prepares to drill striking before walking out to the arena floor for the public workout.
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Sara McMann throws a hook in the fighter training room, just steps from the Mandalay Bay arena floor.
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A Day With Sara McMann
Sara McMann works on her striking during UFC 170 fight week in the meeting-room-turned-workout-space.
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A Day With Sara McMann
With the training room all to herself, Sara McMann dodges a jab in the center of the mats.
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A Day With Sara McMann
Sara McMann removes her gloves after working out for fans and media at the UFC 170 open workout at the Mandalay Bay Events Center.
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A Day With Sara McMann
McMann sits cross-legged in the press scrum, smiling brightly while answering a bevy of questions.
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A Day With Sara McMann
Sara McMann waits in the makeup artist's chair while waiting her turn to record the show opener for the UFC 170 broadcast.
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A Day with Sara McMann
UFC production crew mics up Sara McMann to record her lines for the pay-per-view show opening. Typically, the openers are bold statements, rabble-rousing by fighters but McMann stuck to her guns and stayed away from trash-talking. McMann reasoned that the words would follow her for her entire life so it was paramount to remain true to herself.
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A Day With Sara McMann
Sara McMann memorizes promo lines for UFC Fight Pass in her last media duty for the day.
