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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Jocelyn Armenta didn't ever emotion training. As a kid, she’d skip sessions conscionable to get immoderate sleep, but everything changed erstwhile she recovered her 2nd location at Dethrone Base Camp.
"I admit my coaches a lot; they bash animate maine and propulsion maine forward," said Jocelyn. "They don't sugarcoat things, and I deliberation that's what I similar astir it due to the fact that I don't privation idiosyncratic to conscionable beryllium like, 'Oh yeah, you're doing great,' but past I'm not."
559 Fights is simply a section homegrown MMA promotion successful the Central Valley, launching athletes into mixed martial arts careers. And present they're seeing much women instrumentality up the sport.
"A batch of new, caller faces, a batch of young women that are transitioning from wrestling careers into mixed martial arts, from jiu jitsu, taekwondo, and boxing. They're truly starting to spot that this tin beryllium a vocation way for them," said Jeremy Luchau, who is the CEO and laminitis of 559 Fights.
Fighting isn't conscionable physical, it's emotional. For Jocelyn, MMA has go an outlet, a spot to enactment done anxiety, and a way to idiosyncratic strength.
"I conscionable got to support myself, support my assurance high, due to the fact that if I were to similar spell down, past my mentality successful that cage oregon successful the ringing wouldn't beryllium wherever I request it to be," said Jocelyn.
Head Coach Mike Moreno has trained fighters for implicit 30 years. He's seen Jocelyn turn from a quiescent teen to a person among Dethrone's pistillate fighters.
"She doesn't springiness up, and she's got heart, truthful similar the intelligence toughness, her aggression and her quality to sorb accusation and conscionable beryllium humble sets her apart," said Moreno. "Now there's a mates different females looking up to Jocelyn, like, 'Oh, man, if you could bash it, I tin bash it.'"
Jocelyn precocious made her amateur debut with 559 Fights, adjacent though she lost, Jocelyn won successful a bigger mode - graduating from precocious schoolhouse this week, and her household couldn't beryllium prouder.
"We emotion her nary substance what, and she's inactive a victor successful our book," said Stephanie Armenta, who is 1 of Jocelyn's older sisters and would walk years taking Jocelyn to and from practice.
"I'm precise arrogant of her for representing the Latino assemblage and besides women, too, due to the fact that I cognize there's not a batch of women practice successful the UFC fighting, truthful I'm precise excited for the aboriginal for her," said Noemi Armenta, different older sister who has besides been supporting her.
With a beardown enactment ethic, determination, and a assemblage cheering her on, Jocelyn isn't conscionable warring for wins successful the cage; she's paving the mode for the adjacent procreation of women successful MMA.
This Saturday, 559 fights volition beryllium hosting their first-ever pro-am lawsuit astatine Eagle Mountain Casino successful Porterville. It's the cleanable accidental to enactment section fighters similar Jocelyn and conscionable erstwhile UFC Champions Brandon Moreno and Alexa Grasso.
