‘My mind is right, my body is right’: For Veta Arteaga, no better time to become a Bellator champion
For most MMA fighters, it takes more than three years and seven pro bouts to earn a shot at a belt in one of the world’s leading promotions. Clearly, Veta Artega ’s trajectory isn’t like that of most fighters. But, as she prepares for her chance to take Bellator’s flyweight belt from Ilima-Lei Macfarlane ’s (9-0 MMA, 8-0 BMMA) hands on April 27, Arteaga (5-2 MMA, 4-2 BMMA) doesn’t think things are going too fast