Filed under: Featured , Featured Videos , News , UFC , Videos (This story appears in today’s edition of USA TODAY .) Former UFC heavyweight Pat Barry has no trouble recalling the first time he realized that his fiancee, Rose Namajunas , might be a special fighter. “I knew it after the first punch she hit me with in practice,” Barry tells USA TODAY Sports and MMAjunkie. “I was like, whoa, wait a minute. What was that?” Pat Barry and Rose Namajunas What it was, Barry (8-7 MMA, 5-7 UFC) soon learned, was a jab from one of the brightest prospects in the women’s 115-pound division. Now that Namajunas (2-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC) has fought her way into the finals of the UFC’s reality show tournament for season 20 of “The Ultimate Fighter,” the rest of the MMA world is getting a chance to learn the same lesson – only not all of them have had to experience it firsthand
Visit link:
As UFC title shot awaits, Rose Namajunas relying on lessons from fiance Pat Barry – MMA Junkie