LOS ANGELES -- From high-profile fights to intensive media tours to an individual Reebok sponsorship, Paige VanZant has a lot on her plate for a woman barely old enough to legally drink alcohol.
The founder of her gym, Urijah Faber of Sacramento's Team Alpha Male, says he warned the budding strawweight star early on that things were going to get a little nuts.
"That poor girl was just thrown into that whirlwind," Faber recently told MMAFighting.com. "I think it's part of being a girl and the pretty girl syndrome, you're going to have a lot of haters.