Roxanne Modafferi discusses the dangers of head trauma and how it influenced her decision to step away from MMA.
The Happy Warrior speaks on his head trauma lead her to calling it quits in MMA.
My first experience was in 2010 when I got powerbomb slammed by Sarah Kaufman in our Strikeforce title fight. Darkness did not close my eyes, but I felt like my soul left my body for a second. I was there but I couldn’t move.
I remember on the way home in the airport, I was trying to talk to my cornerman. For some reason my speech was slow, and I couldn’t come up with the words. Actually, everything about me felt slow.
That was the first time I felt the effects of brain trauma. I got really scared and started crying on the spot in the security line. My cornerman told me I’d be okay, and I should just take time off. He was right. That was a light symptom.
