Pearl Gonzalez’s choice to step inside a caged enclosure is her choice and her choice alone now. That wasn’t always the case.
The UFC strawweight fighter spent nine days in jail when she was 18 years old, Gonzalez told Ariel Helwani on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour. It was a culmination of a rough upbringing on the streets around Chicago with parents who were drug addicts.
Gonzalez, now 30 years old, said her husband at the time was a heroin addict. He committed a robbery and she was with him.