For Jessica Eye to take the final step towards becoming a UFC champion, she needed to make the jump cross-country from Ohio to Nevada.
A longtime member of the Strong Style Fight Team and a proud Clevelander, Eye—who has been name-dropped in songs by Machine Gun Kelly and threw out the ceremonial opening pitch at an Indians game back in 2016—has spent the last few months under the desert sun working with the Xtreme Couture team in preparation to challenge Valentina Shevchenko for the flyweight title this Saturday at UFC 238.
Eye has also been putting in work at the UFC Performance Institute in Las Vegas and she is relishing the change in atmosphere, which was less about anything being wrong with her old gym and more about Eye having to do right by herself.