LAS VEGAS – With the situation in her home country of Ukraine getting worse by the day, Maryna Moroz had plenty on her mind outside her fight at UFC 272. That Moroz (11-3 MMA, 6-3 UFC) made the walk to the cage at all at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas should be lauded. That she submitted Mariya Agapova (10-3 MMA, 2-2 UFC) with a second-round rear-naked choke as an underdog should have been trumpeted – and it was in the form of a $50,000 Fight of the Night bonus . Moroz said her heart was heavy in the week leading up to the fight in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “I had a lot of pressure,” Moroz said in her post-fight news conference.
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Maryna Moroz details pressure, stress of war in Ukraine while she fought at UFC 272 – MMA Junkie