UNIONDALE, N.Y. – If she could do it all over again, Lauren Murphy wouldn’t have made the walk to the octagon for her women’s flyweight title fight with champion Valentina Shevchenko her last time out.
In fact, she wishes she hadn’t shown up to Las Vegas for UFC 266 fight week at all.
“I should have withdrawn from that fight,” Murphy told MMA Junkie and other reporters Wednesday during UFC on ABC 3 media day. “I should not have been in the octagon that night. I should not have been in the hotel that week. I should not have been in the (UFC Performance Institute) with other athletes that week. I 100 percent wish I had withdrawn from that fight.”
