When Raquel Pennington came back to her corner following round four of her one-sided title bout with Amanda Nunes at UFC 224, she uttered something to her coaches that you don’t hear all that often in the Octagon - “I’m done.” But instead of saving their fighter from more punishment, they instructed her to go back out there. She did, and was finished in round five.
But part of the reason she felt she was done didn’t come to light until Pennington said it today as a guest on The MMA Hour - she suffered a leg injury very early on.