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Another former UFC fighter admits: OnlyFans made me more money than I ever got for fighting. Now she’ll be fighting without gloves
Felice Herrig has ended her MMA career and after eight long years she is saying goodbye to the UFC, the biggest MMA organization. But it can’t be said that she’s been thinking too long about what to do with her life. Like many other female UFC stars, she signed on with BKFC, an organization that puts on fights without gloves. But fighting isn’t her only source of income.
Felice Herrig has ended her MMA career and after eight long years she is saying goodbye to the UFC, the biggest MMA organization. But it can’t be said that she’s been thinking too long about what to do with her life. Like many other female UFC stars, she signed on with BKFC, an organization that puts on fights without gloves. But fighting isn’t her only source of income.
You don’t know the name Felice Herrig? Not too surprising. Although she’s fought stars like Paige VanZant, Michelle Waterson and Karolina Kowalkiewicz, she’s never really made it to the absolute top. In the UFC, she’s racked up a total of five wins and five losses.
In addition, her career was affected by health problems, during which she experienced some hardship. Two knee surgeries meant practically two years without a fight and therefore without income. In order to recover as a professional athlete, she had to face it somehow.
In order to afford maximum rest, adequate rehab and medical care, she set up a page on OnlyFans, where several female fighters already had profiles and began earning money by posting adult content.
Herrig didn’t want to be another person from a combat sports background coming back from injury too soon. “If it wasn’t for OnlyFans, I probably would have had to do it too. I get paid every week, I don’t worry about money and I can take care of my body like a professional athlete,” MMA Fighting quoted her as saying.
The American fighter admits that thanks to the profits from OnlyFans, she started to have some financial freedom and could start to choose when and if she would fight anymore.
“I’m actually making more money on OnlyFans than I ever made fighting. And that I wasn’t making bad money for my fights. But I was only getting money when I was wrestling, so I was constantly stressed that no one would help me if I went a long time without wrestling,” Herrig admitted.
However, she doesn’t want to throw dirt on the UFC or criticize the organization. Instead, she praised the Performance Institute in Las Vegas, for example, where fighters have free access to physical therapists, food and training support. However, she sees the fact that it’s only in Las Vegas as a drawback.
And that the UFC offers fighters and female fighters an insurance program to help pay for things like surgeries after an injury in training camp? They say there are still many costs that fighters and fighters have to pay for themselves above and beyond.
But Herrig is not about to say goodbye to his fighting career now. On the contrary. She’s become a new fighter for BKFC, which includes former UFC stars like Rachael Ostovich, Paige VanZant and Bec Rawlings.
Source: MMA Fighting, The Fighter vs. The Writer
