That’s definitively the first analogy I’ve heard for prizefighting and body-piercing, but it works.
“But you feel everything from happiness, fear, nervousness…you get super pumped-up. One second you’re thinking ‘I’m gonna f*** her up!’ and the next second you’re like, ‘Oh God, what’s going to happen?’ That’s just the cool thing about it.”
Kianzad fought both on UFC Fight Island and at the UFC APEX, two quiet venues where fans couldn’t be present due to the pandemic. Will the pop of a capacity crowd at Gila River Arena ratchet up the nerves?
“When you fight on the early prelims, there’s not that many fans, so it’s kind of like not having a crowd,” she laughs. “I like the fact that I can hear everything happening, but I’m really happy that the fans are back. That means everything is going back to normal.”
