Just three fights into her UFC tenure and Paige VanZant has the power to negotiate a new contract with the MMA juggernaut. Undefeated in her first three trips to the Octagon and one of the promotion’s fastest rising stars, VanZant still had one fight left on her current deal, but her manager, Mike Roberts of MMA Inc., told UFC Tonight on Wednesday that his client was hopeful of inking a new deal before inking her next fight. RELATED > Ronda Rousey: Retirement Looms, but ‘I’m Not Done Making History Yet’ As it happened, she did both at the same time. “Just signed a new UFC deal and got my next fight lined up,” VanZant wrote Thursday on Twitter. She didn’t reveal whom she would be fighting next, but sitting at No. 6 in the UFC strawweight division, VanZant is sure to get a step up in competition
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Paige VanZant Wanted a New UFC Deal… She Got a New UFC Deal – MMA Weekly