Sarah Kaufman had to deal with some uncomfortable pre-fight promo heading into her Strikforce women’s bantamweight title fight with Ronda Rousey in 2012.
PFL’s newest female star stopped by the latest episode of Pull No Punches podcast with Kajan Johnson and Shakiel Mahjouri. Kaufman was asked to compare judokas Rousey and Kayla Harrison, but the question suddenly resurfaced an awkward moment in Kaufman’s career.
“There were a lot of things going on there,” Kaufman said of the Rousey fight. Particularly, Showtime’s aesthetic for the pre-fight promo package. “We had to wear latex sex suits with zipper crotches and gogo boots up to our knees.