SAN DIEGO – All fighters have their reasons for getting into mixed martial arts. Iasmin Lucindo’s isn’t one you’d wish on anybody.
Lucindo is just 20, and she’s set to make her UFC debut Saturday against Yazmin Jauregui in a strawweight bout at UFC on ESPN 41 from Pechanga Arena. She began training in MMA as a teenager, and she did so to protect herself and her family given her life experience.
“I debuted at 14 years old, actually fighting in the pros, and the reason I why I started going into martial arts is for self-defense,” Lucindo, who’s Brazilian, said Wednesday at UFC on ESPN 41 media day through an interpreter. “The women in my family, my mother, they suffered domestic violence. So I did (MMA) to defend myself, and I ended up liking it, and I just ended up continuing to fight, fight, fight. …
