All but one fighter made weight for UFC 248. Emily Whitmire came in heavy for the strawweight limit by 1.5 pounds. All fighters involved in title fights hit the mark making Zhang Weili vs. Joanna Jedrzejczyk and Israel Adesanya vs. Yoel Romero official. (Heidi Fang/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
UFC strawweight Emily Whitmire says though her former coach Robert Follis, who took his own life in Dec. 2017, is gone, she has found what he tried to help her realize. Whitmire talks about finding peace with her estranged mother and coming into her own as a fighter ahead of her bout with Amanda Ribas at UFC on ESPN 3 on June 29.
The Ultimate Fighter season 26 boasts a cast of 16 women who are vying to become the UFC’s first female flyweight champion. Four women from the cast talk about what it means to have the new weight class available to them and about their experiences on TUF 26.
