“I had worked with these people before, I had worked at the APEX, so there was really nothing to be nervous about — it’s really the same thing — but I was nervous just because of what it was,” she said, recalling her first Fight Night broadcast when we sat down as part of my A Conversation With series on the Keyboard Kimura YouTube channel. “It really didn’t hit me until I was flying home the next day because then I just started sobbing.
“It was equal parts joy and relief, which is a weird emotion. But to be honest with you, it felt like a win in fighting, because there is always this weird elation of ‘I can’t believe what I just pulled off.’”
Having crossed the next item off her broadcasting “To Do List,” Sanko finally felt comfortable enough to verbalize the next achievement she wanted to unlock later in that same conversation.
“Of course I want to call a pay-per-view,” she said, laughing after we had just recounted tip-toeing around vocalizing that desire in the past because people may have misconstrued her desire with an sense of entitlement. “I”m well aware that that is something that doesn’t happen immediately for anybody, and the guys that call the pay-per-views — Joe (Rogan) and DC (Daniel Cormier) and (Michael) Bisping — they’re staples at that level, and even those guys have had to earn their stripes to get to that spot.
