Having had frequent conversations with Jessica Eye over the last couple years, I had a pretty good idea about how things played out between her loss to Miesha Tate back in July and the Cleveland, Ohio native getting booked to return to action this weekend against Julianna Pena at UFC 192 in Houston.
My guess: walk to the back, scream, get checked out and then find UFC matchmaker Sean Shelby.
“You know me pretty well because that’s kind of what happened,” Eye laughed when we caught up to discuss her career earlier in the month. “It wasn’t that particular night because I let everything settle in, but when it came down to it, between Sean and Dana (White), I annoyed both of them to the point that they were probably like, ‘Is she ever going to stop messaging me?