For anyone still wondering why Michelle Waterson couldn’t be at UFC 257, it’s because she was focused on being where she had to be for the people she loved the most.
Waterson bowed out of a fight against Amanda Ribas this past January and at the time the reasons were undisclosed. It was the first time in five years that Waterson withdrew from a scheduled booking and she said later in an interview on Oral Sessions with Renee Paquette that it was due to ‘family issues.’
Four months later, Waterson is able to open up a little more on the circumstances of that withdrawal as she prepares to fight Marina Rodriguez this Saturday in the flyweight main event of UFC Vegas 26 at UFC APEX.