Growing up, Emily Whitmire [autotag] thought of herself as a character in a movie in tough times. That gave the UFC strawweight fighter the detachment she needed to keep going. It didn’t, however, erase the self-talk that reared itself at the most inopportune times – like in a cage fight. Whitmire recalls finding herself in the midst of combat, following her gameplan, and all along she’d tell herself she sucked every time she made the slightest mistake. This inner-critic also spoke up when there was no apparent threat, like at the Three Angry Wives Pub in Summerlin, Nev., where Whitmire got a job within 24 hours of moving to Las Vegas to reinvent herself. “All the tables had all their drinks, all the food went out,” said Whitmire, who faces Amanda Ribas next week at UFC on ESPN 3
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How UFC’s Emily Whitmire changed after a chance encounter with her homeless mother – MMA Junkie