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She seems like an interesting person, not the crazy brute "they" made her sound like in her losses in UFC.

Concussions should be taken seriously. The idea of waving off a rattled brain as a headache, and keep playing through, makes me cringe in the literal sense.

I've had 3-4 of them, and I worry about my memory and mental performance over time. I'm only in my mid 30s.

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She had a successful and undramatic judo career before MMA. She was well respected in that sport from what I can remember.

UFC isn't professional wrestling or anything but western combat sports have a tradition of a bit of theatricality and showmanship to them. Those are probably real elements of her personality to some extent, but choosing to visibly play them out was surely as much a marketing decision as a personal one.

By contrast judo tends to be skeptical of that sort of presentation, and as a judoka it wasn't very apparent in her interactions.

She has ties to pro wrestling (even got her name ‘Rowdy’ from Roddy Piper), so she really leaned in to playing the heel

She sucks though, she's a Sandy Hook truther and her husband is awful too

Was she like that before her brain got scrambled?

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