Former UFC girls’s flyweight Paige VanZant will make her Energy Slap debut in opposition to Christine Wolmarans on Friday on the Colbalt Ballroom inside Fontainebleau Las Vegas.
Since leaving the UFC in 2020, VanZant has fought in bare-knuckle boxing, was briefly an expert wrestler, and made her boxing debut earlier this yr. Now she will add Energy Slap to her resume and she or he considers herself ‘a gangster’ for doing it.
“I bought a name if I would do Energy Slap. I stated, ‘completely,’ and that was it. Signed the contract and right here I’m right here to do Energy Slap,” VanZant advised the media on Wednesday. “I feel it is thrilling for me as a result of, like, pay attention, I’m a gangster. Whether or not folks wish to admit it or not. I’m right here to slap any individual. It would not matter what group, what fight sport. I am right here to take over and have some enjoyable.”
Earlier than getting the telephone name with a proposal, VanZant had thought of doing Energy Slap. On Friday, she’ll get the chance.
“It was a dialog that we had within the fitness center. Everyone watches Energy Slap. They’ve taken over. Everyone is aware of what it’s. Everyone’s seen the spotlight movies and lots of people are like, ‘No. I’d by no means try this,’ or they’ve combined feelings about all of it,” VanZant stated. “For me, I used to be like, ‘Yeah, I would try this.’ After all. I look again at my UFC profession, my bare-knuckle boxing profession, every thing that I’ve completed. You’ll be able to’t take away how powerful I’m. That is like the last word take a look at of toughness. You stand there and you have to have the balls to get hit.”
VanZant made her skilled boxing debut in Misfits Boxing in Might in opposition to English Onlyfans mannequin Elle Brooke. The bout led to a cut up draw and VanZant expects to rematch Booke later this yr. She additionally left the door open to return to Naked Knuckle Preventing Championship, however proper now she desires to be in Energy Slap.
“I’m a girl who does regardless of the f**ok I would like and proper now I wish to do Energy Slap,” she stated.
