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Looking Back on 15-Year Veteran’s Career in the World of Competitive Violence

Lauren Murphy began her MMA career back in June of 2010. It’s been a ride with many twists and turns like any good story. This past Saturday evening at UFC Nashville, her in-cage story came to a close after 23 professional fights.

With her retirement from active competition fresh on the minds of MMA fans the world over, there’s no time like the present to discuss the career that was for the one nicknamed “Lucky.” Let’s get started.

Lauren Murphy: The Early Years in MMA

Murphy was born in July of 1983 in Anchorage, AK, but by the time she was 11 years of age, tragedy struck her family with the death of her dad from injuries sustained in an aircraft accident.