When Felice Herrig injured her knee in early 2019, she knew it was bad.
The veteran strawweight was starting training camp for an eventual showdown against Yan Xiaonan at UFC 238 in Chicago when she jumped into wrestling drills like she would during any other practice.
The only difference was Herrig wearing boxing shoes because she had been suffering from a bout of turf toe and she wanted to protect herself from further injury. At the time, she believed boxing shoes were similar enough to wrestling shoes that it didn’t make that much of a difference.