Cast in the upcoming Gareth Evans Netflix project Havoc, an action-thriller starring Tom Hardy, Forest Whittaker, and Timothy Olyphant, Gomez used her time filming in Wales to shift her perspective, embracing all that she has accomplished instead of fixating on the achievements that have eluded her to this point.
“I think it’s important to have goals, but it’s also one of those things where sometimes you have goals and you don’t hit them, and you get so down on yourself, but in doing that, you don’t realize all the progress that you’ve made,” she began. “Having this time away and being in Wales filming that movie gave me a lot of time to reflect on my MMA career, and I’ve done so many amazing things.
“I’m a champ at atomweight and I still live a championship lifestyle. Every time I go into camp, I go into camp with the expectation that I can go five five-minute rounds with the best of the best. Every time I think about it, I guess I just never realized what I have accomplished, and I’ve been able to accomplish a lot.
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“Since I’ve been in the UFC, I’ve fought pretty much nothing but Top 10ers,” continued Gomez, who has garnered victories over Paige VanZant, Karolina Kowalkiewicz, and Angela Hill, while also sharing the cage with current champ Carla Esparza and former titleholders Rose Namajunas and Joanna Jedrzejczyk. “I’ve fought (three champions) and fought in four main events; have gotten Fight of the Night, Submission of the Night — so many amazing things that I’ve been able to do in my career that I overlooked because of a decision loss against someone that I took the fight against on a week’s notice.”
She paused.
