(This story appears in today’s edition of USA TODAY .) After a year had gone by with no fight and no payday, Michelle Waterson started thinking that maybe the thing to do was give up fighting for a while and try to get pregnant again. She didn’t want her 3-year-old daughter to be an only child, she explains, and the longer she sat around waiting for an opponent to challenge for her Invicta FC 105-pound title, the more she began to lose hope. “All those things go through your mind,” Waterson (11-3), who takes on Yasuko Tamada (15-8-3) at Invicta FC 8 in Kansas City, Mo., on Saturday night (8 p.m. ET, UFC Fight Pass), tells USA TODAY Sports. “I feel like fighting is such a sacrifice on your body and on your family.
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Michelle Waterson says Invicta-UFC deal convinced her to put off second pregnancy – MMA Junkie