Filed under: Featured Videos , News , UFC , Videos SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Asked whether she felt she was fighting for her job in a UFC on FOX 22 meeting with Irene Aldana, Leslie Smith initially said she absolutely did, and that’s always the case when you fight in the octagon. What she was really talking about, though, was the precarious position she’d put herself in as an outspoken advocate of organizing fighters . “When you asked me earlier if I felt like my back was against the wall, you, I thought, were asking because of my last loss against (Cris) ‘Cyborg’ (Justino),” she clarified later while speaking to MMAjunkie backstage at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, Calif. “But in my head, that was compounded by my very public stance on fighters associations and the unions.” Smith has aligned herself with just about every effort to unite UFC and MMA fighters into a collective body, voicing support for the MMA Fighters Association, Professional Fighters Association, and, most recently, the MMA Athletes Association . In the case of the latter, she spoke of a two-hour meeting with figurehead Bjorn Rebney and said the association’s plan was “not exactly the one I would have chosen.” Still, she remains committed to the idea of getting fighters together for better protections outside the cage, including meaningful health insurance to cover the injuries that come along with a bruising career
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Leslie Smith said pro-union position put back against wall at UFC on FOX 22 – MMA Junkie