Andrea Lee would have been a shoo-in for The Ultimate Fighter 26. The charismatic, marketable women’s champion surely would have made the show — which will crown the UFC’s first-ever flyweight champion — had she tried out in May.
Lee, though, opted to pass on the tryouts. The Legacy Fighting Alliance women’s flyweight champ told Ariel Helwani on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour that a back injury from a fight right before the tryouts kept her out.
“I didn’t think that it was in my best interest to go and try out a couple days after my fight and my back is also kind of injured,” Lee said.