{"id":4539,"date":"2014-04-29T09:21:31","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T15:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/?p=4539"},"modified":"2014-04-29T09:21:31","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T15:21:31","slug":"i-went-to-tuf-20-tryouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/2014\/04\/29\/i-went-to-tuf-20-tryouts\/","title":{"rendered":"I went to TUF 20 tryouts!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, I&#8217;m not trying out again, I was already on the show! No, I&#8217;m not dropping from 135 lbs to 115 lbs. Are you crazy? No, I&#8217;m not fighting in the UFC now, I signed with Invicta months ago.  No, I can&#8217;t talk about the results of the tryouts&#8230;that&#8217;s the first Rule of The Ultimate Fighter: don&#8217;t talk about The Ultimate Fighter. lol<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m amazed at how many people asked me these questions on Twitter and Facebook. ^^;<\/p>\n<p>So now that we&#8217;ve gotten all that out of the way! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>I went to support my friends Heather Clark and Helen Harper, and meet people and be a part of the experience. \ud83d\ude00 I know all the staff, so it was really cool to say hi to the camera and sound guys, and coordinators and interviewers and people. \ud83d\ude42  <\/p>\n<p>They made me sign a waiver and interviewed me with Heather! \ud83d\ude00 We hugged and were all like best-friend-mushy stuff that they probably won&#8217;t air because it&#8217;s so cheesy. LOL but I said some good stuff so yeah haha.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/roxy-and-healther-at-tryouts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/roxy-and-healther-at-tryouts.jpg\" alt=\"roxy and healther at tryouts\" width=\"312\" height=\"376\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4540\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And I sat with Helen and Miesha!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/roxy-miesha-heather.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/roxy-miesha-heather.jpg\" alt=\"roxy miesha heather\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4541\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And Ricky Lundell, my coach from TUF 18. \ud83d\ude00 I love this guy.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/bunny-ears-tryouts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/bunny-ears-tryouts.jpg\" alt=\"bunny ears tryouts\" width=\"490\" height=\"367\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4542\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/group-at-table-roxy-healther-meisha.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/group-at-table-roxy-healther-meisha.jpg\" alt=\"group at table roxy healther meisha\" width=\"602\" height=\"452\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4543\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I said hi to Dana White! I wanted a picture like everybody else, but I was too shy to ask. ^^;  I&#8217;ve talked to him many times, but I&#8217;m still in awe of him. ._.<\/p>\n<p>I met Marq for the first time in person, one of my friends and MMA reporter\/website owner! \ud83d\ude00  The peacock feather in his hat is amazing. And he&#8217;s wearing a Team Kristin shirt! XD<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/marq-and-roxy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/marq-and-roxy.jpg\" alt=\"marq and roxy\" width=\"494\" height=\"371\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4544\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And &#8230;..I&#8217;m a huge fan of Tecia Torres!  She&#8217;s younger than me and is 4-0, but she&#8217;s so talented and cool and her striking is like bambambamFasterThanTheEyeTornadoooooooo. #Invicta I can wait to see her fight again. XD I was like &#8230;.a fangirl. hahaha I like being a fangirl sometimes. And her arms and shoulders are bigger than mine. :[ *jealous*<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/roxy-tecia-torres.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/roxy-tecia-torres.jpg\" alt=\"roxy tecia torres\" width=\"399\" height=\"352\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4545\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I met Bec (Hayatt) Rawlings !<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/beck-hayat-roxy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/beck-hayat-roxy.jpg\" alt=\"beck hayat roxy\" width=\"368\" height=\"445\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4546\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I recognized soooooo many people, but couldn&#8217;t place their faces or names to where I&#8217;ve met them before (or just seen them fight.) So PLEASE, if you come up to me, don&#8217;t say, &#8220;Hey, do you remember me?&#8221; Because it&#8217;s sooo embarrassing for me to give you a blank stare and try to explain yes, and no. :(Then you are hurt. So just give me a break and be like &#8216;Hey, I&#8217;m blahblahblah, we met at the blah blah blah.&#8221; Thanks! :{<\/p>\n<p>It was really fun and interesting to watch people do grappling and mitts.  Very. And &#8230;. I can&#8217;t talk about it. XD (see &#8220;rules of The Ultimate Fighter&#8221; stated above)<\/p>\n<p>mwahahahaha<br \/>\nOh, my coach John Wood was there, and Julie Kedzie came to visit! \ud83d\ude00 Michael Chiesa was there, too.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/john-julie-roxy-mike-c-at-tuf-20-tryouts-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/john-julie-roxy-mike-c-at-tuf-20-tryouts-2.jpg\" alt=\"john julie roxy mike c at tuf 20 tryouts 2\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4547\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, I&#8217;m not trying out again, I was already on the show! No, I&#8217;m not dropping from 135 lbs to 115 lbs. Are you crazy? No, I&#8217;m not fighting in the UFC now, I signed with Invicta months ago. No, I can&#8217;t talk about the results of the tryouts&#8230;that&#8217;s the first Rule of The Ultimate&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-every-day","category-fight","category-friends","category-5","category-7","category-9","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}