Maryna Moroz was 14 years old the first time she got into a real fight. In a many ways, it was inevitable. While other young girls in Ukraine played with dolls or traded gossip, the self-described hooligan from Volnogorsk waged wars with the neighborhood boys whenever she wasn't stuck working the fields on her parents' farm. Over time, one common theme emerged from all those minor scuffles: the slight farmgirl with the dark brown eyes and unkempt ponytail, yeah, she could hit like a truck.
The funny thing about Moroz's 90-second upset over the then sixth-ranked strawweight in the world at UFC Fight Night 64 was not the cruel chaos of the game we play, nor the myriad of excuses that followed.