Michelle Waterson will be at tonight’s UFC 208 event in Brooklyn supporting her fellow Jackson-Wink MMA teammate, Holly Holm. Holm is set to headline the event when she faces Germaine de Randamie for the inaugural UFC featherweight championship.

Ahead of the fight, Waterson recently spoke to MMAJunkie about why she looks up to her teammate so much.

“She knows what she wants, and she doesn’t stop until she gets what she wants,” Waterson told MMAjunkie. “Every day, if she doesn’t get a technique right, she’s back at the gym that night to fix whatever she did wrong in the sparring session that morning. So, she’s very determined to get back on the winning streak.”

“Holly is one of my biggest mentors, and I look up to her so much,” Waterson said. “And it’s because she doesn’t talk; she’s not a talker. She’s a doer. She doesn’t talk the talk; she walks the walk. She’s the hardest working person I’ve ever met in my life. She runs six days a week, and within those, there are sprint runs and long-distance runs on top of her diet regimen.

“On top of her technique training with her jiu-jitsu, on top of her wrestling training, on top of the mitt work. And that’s not including the daily classes that she goes to. So, she’s a hard worker.”

If Holm does indeed get what she wants and beats de Randamie in the pay-per-view main event at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., she will become the first woman in UFC history to earn belts in different weight divisions.

Her opponent, De Randamie, is a former kickboxing champion who is currently on a two-fight win streak after her only octagon setback: a first-round TKO at the hands of current bantamweight titleholder Amanda Nunes.

UFC 208: Holm vs. de Randamie takes place tonight at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. The event will be aired live on pay-per-view.

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