Life can change in a flash, as Tai Emery learned after her first BKFC win.
It’s a challenge even now to wrap her head around the spike in attention and her tens of thousands of new followers. Before the fight, she may have predicted it – but in a dishonest “shoot for the stars” sort of way. And here she is days later, in a position where her confident fib wouldn’t have even lived up to how reality played out.
“There’s the formula for something like that to happen and make a superstar out of it,” Emery recently told MMA Junkie. “But yeah, holy moly. Life has changed.”