The top seed, Carla Esparza, starts to feel the pressure of being the favorite heading into her fight against sixteenth seeded Angela Hill. The Pressure of Being the Favorite Esparza, the Invicta FC strawweight champion, hadn’t fought since January 2013 and worried about ring rust being a factor in her match up against Hill. “I haven’t fought in over a year and a half, so it’s a slight disadvantage as far as ring rust goes. But I also feel like people don’t know what I’m going to bring to the table because they don’t know what I’ve been working on,” said Esparza. “I feel kind of scared because do I even remember what it’s like to be in there, or to get hit like that, to have someone in there gunning for me, trying to hurt me,” she said
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TUF 20 Episode 4 Notes: Pressure Begins to Mount for the Favorite – MMA Weekly