If Felice Herrig is nervous about her UFC 229 main card matchup with Michelle Waterson, she certainly isn’t letting on. Full of smiles and energy for her interview with UFC.com, she donned a Khabib-style Papakha hat that she saw in the corner of the room and insisted on wearing it for the entire wide-ranging discussion and keeping the staff in stitches throughout.
“You can’t take me serious wearing this, can you?”
Come Saturday night, however, it will be all business. Herrig and Waterson are alumni of the Oxygen show Fight Girls, and while there’s no particular animosity between the two, there’s no mystery about how Herrig imagines her 22nd MMA fight playing out.