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Her preference is, of course, to get a finish and not leave it in the judge’s hands. But for any urgency Lee admitted to having before her fight Saturday, she seemed extremely calm and poised during her fight week interview. She had her reasons for why she may have dropped those fights but didn’t use them, or the judges’ cards, as a crutch.

Lee knows the heat at the Abu Dhabi arena during UFC 242 may have played a factor, but she’s opted into assuming that maybe it was her cardio that was the problem.

“I felt like my endurance was not that good for that fight,” Lee said about her bout with Calderwood. “And I remember being really exhausted going into the second round. So I started doing stupid stuff out of desperation. Even if it had anything to do with the heat, whatever the case, I’ve amped up my cardio from that fight.”

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Before her fight with Murphy in February, Lee developed a staph infection in her shin that prevented her from throwing leg kicks. She adjusted by standing and having a trading war on the feet.

“It ended up still being a great fight, I just couldn’t throw as many kicks,” Lee said. “Wasn’t much to take away from that other than I’m tough.”

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