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PORTERVILLE, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A southbound vale MMA combatant is present successful the spotlight aft respective awesome matches, including her astir caller bout with section MMA promotion 559 Fights.
Born successful Tulare and raised successful Visalia, Jacquline “Lulu” Craven graduated from Golden West High School successful 2018 and wasted nary clip chasing her adjacent challenge. She earned a wrestling assistance to William Baptist successful Texas and has besides won a Golden Gloves rubric on the way.
When her fiancé, present husband, suggested it was clip for her to measurement into the MMA cage, she ne'er looked back. This past weekend, Craven won her combat successful conscionable 1 infinitesimal and 3 seconds, locking successful a submission triumph successful beforehand of a hometown crowd.
"I wanted to get into MMA due to the fact that I wrestled since I was four, and I privation to commencement doing thing new," said Jacqueline "LuLu" Craven, a flyweight amateur fighter. "Ultimately, I wanted to punch radical successful the look arsenic brainsick arsenic that whitethorn sound.”
Her travel into the athletics wasn't easy, but it's been 1 built connected passionateness and purpose.
Craven trains at Crisp MMA in Visalia nether manager Darren Crisp Jr. whom she's known since she was 9 years old. She says helium pushes her to her limits and makes her consciousness close astatine home. If you inquire Crisp, he’ll archer you it's Craven’s dedication that sets her apart.
"She's driven, truly goal-driven, a God-fearing pistillate that wants to spell retired determination and enactment connected a amusement for everybody," said Crisp. "It's nerve-racking to maine due to the fact that I've known her since she was little, and she's similar a sister to me. But astatine the aforesaid time, I don't person to interest astir her, I cognize she does the training."
Even though her hubby wasn't capable to beryllium determination astatine this fight, Craven says his subject work has fixed her much information to support fighting.
"It’s been astir 2 weeks, and I consciousness similar that's been a immense information for maine due to the fact that he's warring for our state and not lone warring for our country, but sacrificing his beingness to marque my beingness better," said Craven. "He's ever been my fig 1 protagonist successful this sport."
With respective fights present nether her belt, and her archetypal clip streaming connected UFC Fight Pass, Craven says this is conscionable the beginning.
“I'm going to enactment busy. I'm going to enactment progressive due to the fact that I privation to support proving to the satellite and proving to myself that I'm susceptible of being the champion successful the world," said Craven. "So conscionable enactment tuned, I'm going to beryllium backmost soon.”
