PHOENIX – UFC strawweight Cynthia Calvillo asserts she did everything in her power to keep from missing weight for her previous octagon bout. But her body wouldn’t cooperate, and she came up two pounds short for a UFC Fight Night 140 bout against Poliana Botelho. “We tried to prepare for it the best we could, but that time of the month was just not great for me,” Calvillo (7-1 MMA, 4-1 UFC) told MMAjunkie in advance of a return about against Cortney Casey (8-6 MMA, 4-5 UFC) at UFC on ESPN 1, which takes place Sunday at Talking Stick Arena in Phoenix and airs live on ESPN.
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