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Sarah Kaufman reflects on her big slam on Roxy Modafferi
By Zach Arnold | August 3, 2010
KENNY RICE: “Sarah, congratulations. The championship. Kind of interesting to see you get the Knockout slam, much like Gerald Harris just a few weeks ago. We were talking earlier, to see these coming in such a short period of time, I bet a lot of people are going to be studying the video tapes of both those knockouts.”
SARAH KAUFMAN: “I was actually watching the Harris fight and when he did that (slam), I was like ‘that would actually be the best thing to knock someone out with,’ just really exciting and I figured I would never do that and you know the opportunity was there and you know I work in the gym with the strength trainer Tyler Goodale, we do a lot of cleans, medicine slams, yeah, all that kind of stuff. And then my coach Adam Zugec and my team at Zuma, they all get me prepared for kind of all situations like that and training with a lot of the guys at my team is, you know, I’m lifting a lot of them up so she felt really light and it just worked out really well.”
KENNY RICE: “You were talking about being on the Challenger card and maybe some day being on the Strikeforce main card. Does this kind of victory get you on the main card? I mean, Strikeforce is the only organization, one of the few, certainly the biggest organization out there that has opened things up for the women’s division. Now, does this deserve a main card fight for you to defend your title next time?”
SARAH KAUFMAN: “I mean, I think Strikeforce is really happy with the win. You know, it made it to ESPN as well, so you know they’re getting a lot of recognition for it as well and I think that’s really going to help open up this 135-pound division. You know, Showtime’s also helping out pushing these females so it’ll be exciting. They’re saying that I’m fighting Marloes Coenen next and I’m sure that that’s going to be on one of their main events and then they have their Challengers card tournament coming up in just a couple of weeks, so there’s a lot of really good things that Strikeforce and Showtime are doing with the 135 division right now.”
BAS RUTTEN: “It’s great stuff from Scott (Coker) to put the women in there and he’s got some great women, too, great fighters.”
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