Ultimate Fighting Championship women’s bantamweight contender Raquel Pennington believes her coaches made the right call in allowing her to keep fighting despite telling them she was “done.”
Pennington took on Amanda Nunes on Saturday night at UFC 224 in Rio de Janeiro, where “Rocky” suffered a fifth-round TKO defeat. At the conclusion of the fourth round Pennington verbally told her corner that she didn’t want to continue to fight. Her coaches encouraged her to dig deep and she went into the fifth and final round of the fight badly beaten before Nunes inflicted more damage until referee Marc Goddard stopped the fight.