Vanessa Demopoulos credits learning how to be poised and composed for her career turnaround, but maybe it’s time to add a little crazy into the mix again, too. Now training at Factory X ahead of a May 20 bout against Karolina Kowalkiewicz (14-7 MMA, 7-7 UFC) at a UFC Fight Night event, Demopoulos (9-4 MMA, 3-1 UFC) thinks her in-cage intelligence is advanced enough to revert back to her old fighting style – a hybrid of the calm and the storm. “I feel like I really did a good job of following the gameplan of what my coaches were requesting of me to do inside the octagon,” Demopoulos recently told MMA Junkie Radio. “I was a great listener and I think moving forward I’d like to listen to my own instincts a little bit more. I went from being a super crazy, fun, wild fighter to being a little bit more reserved, which was good and necessary and needed.
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