“Just being able to go there and be around other fighters from UFC, Bellator, PFL, all those guys, it reassured me that I belong here,” he said. -she declared. “I have my place on this stage. I’m doing well. I do it well.”
But home will always be home, which isn’t surprising since it seems like everyone wants to move to Montana these days.
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“It’s beautiful,” Mann said. “Like I said, I went to Vegas for a week to train with Xtreme Couture, and that’s a long time for me because I like being at home where there are mountains where I live. I can drive 15 minutes and I’ll be in the mountains, so I can hike and clear my head and be in nature. And it’s just a pure feeling. I’m not surrounded by a bunch of buildings and it’s hard to explain. Just being able to be in the woods is amazing. We see moose, deer, bears, all sorts of things. This is where I’m supposed to live.
And this is where Marnic Mann has the potential to be known as the UFC fighter who brought Montana MMA to the mainstream by doing it her way.
“I’m going to be the most authentic person I can be,” she said. “I promise that wherever all this happens, I will be myself. Because the fights don’t last forever. And the person I fight with will also be the same person after the fight. I will never pretend and just say things to make people like me or whatever. It will just be a matter of you getting what you see. And if people like it and want to follow it, that’s great. If they don’t, that’s great. It doesn’t matter to me. I’m just going to be me.
