Michelle Waterson: Fight Mom

MICHELLE WATERSON: I'm still trying to figure out
how to get in the zone as a fighter,
and then come home and be the mom I need to be.
I have to remind myself, you're still mommy.
You're not like, this hardcore fighter.
You still need to be nurturing.
You still need to be motherly.
This is what makes you grow, bananas.
Bananas of the universe unite!
Form the-- - I can do it, form.
Oh, OK.
Form, bananas, form, form bananas.
Jump, jump, bananas, jump, jump, bananas.
Peel it to the left.
Peel it-- - No, I can do it.
OK.
Peel it to the left.
Peel it to the right.
Peel it down the middle and ah!
Take a bite.
You did it.
[LAUGHTER]
I want her to be a strong woman.
I want her to be a good person.
I want her to be giving and loving.

And I want her to just be happy.
ANNOUNCER: Time for main event.
Herica Tiburcio, she's made it to Invicta FC,
and she is ready to challenge this fighter for the Atomweight
Championship.
She is the Invicta FC Atomweight Champion, Michelle Waterson.
Challenger, Herica Tiburcio.
Let them hear it!
[CHEERING]
HERICA TIBURCIO: Mommy's fighting tonight.
I know.
I know.
I was saying your name.
HERICA TIBURCIO: Oh.
How does-- how does mommy got to punch?
How does she have to have her hands up and stuff?
Hands up?
How do we punch?
HERICA TIBURCIO: Whoa.
[LAUGHS]
So what does mommy-- what does mommy have to do tonight?
She has to go like this.
Punch, punch.
Punch, punch, punch.
And then?
Any kicks, or--
- And then she kicks. - OK
Boom.
boom.
- Just like that? - And then she goes like this.
Do, do, do, do!
ANNOUNCER: --Arena Theater here in Houston, Texas.
It is time for the Main Event of the evening.
Fighting out of the red corner, she
is the reigning defending Invicta FC Atomweight
Champion of the world.
The Karate Hottie, Michelle Waterson!
[CHEERING]
Fight!
ANNOUNCER: The bell in Round 1.
Waterson was a karate kid starting the martial art
at the age of 10.
Her apart from a lot of other MMA fighters out there,
she can shoot kicks.
ANNOUNCER: Wow.
ANNOUNCER: And she can put power behind it,
as Tiburcio though, takes her down.
ANNOUNCER: And Michelle is very, very good at getting
arm bars off of her back.
MAN: Yeah!
Yeah!
ANNOUNCER: Tiburcio, and Waterson continuing
to hold onto the arm!
Belly down, Russian-style arm bar. keep--
Shuck out of that, peanut.
You're fine.
Shuck out of that.
Go! Go!
Go! Go!
Go! Up!
Up! Up! 'Atta girl.
Circle peanut!
MAN: Yeah.
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
ANNOUNCER: That was beautiful!
The Champion, Michelle Waterson, in dominant position.
Beautiful sweep by Tiburcio.
But now Waterson again, looking to snatch the arm.
Tiburcio shoots the right hand.
Forth we go. - Back of the head!
[BELL RINGS]
Go ahead, sir.
MEDIC: Michelle, you want to sit?
COACH: Have a seat. We've got to work on it.
Have a seat.
We got to work on the eye.
What we got to do is more activity with more pressure,
OK?
No body kicks.
She wants to catch them.
[BELL RINGS]
ANNOUNCER: Quick start by Michelle Waterson
here in round two.
Already showing the effects, a swollen left eye.
You can attack her wrist if you want there.
There you-- get on the wrist.
ANNOUNCER: Let's see her-- well, she may just get the energy.
Scramble.
And Waterson ends up on top.
Now, back-fist her, left hand.
That a girl.
Again.
Again.
Right arm, Michelle.
There you go.
That a girl.
Beautiful.
[CROWD SHOUTING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
ANNOUNCER: Wow, she's been taking some hard knees.
Roll!
Yep!
That's it!
Go back to the guard, peanut!
Get guard, peanut!
Bring that arm out of there!
ANNOUNCER: Tiburcio, looking for the arm bar
in the dying seconds of the round.
Will Waterson be saved by the bell?
[BELL RINGS]
She is!
[CHEERING]
And Waterson looks like she's been
in a fight, as she struggles to make it to her corner.
So here's what we're going to do.
She's trying to blitz you against the fence.
OK?
You need some strong central control,
a strong straight right hand, a strong right kick to the face.
Something in the straight, OK? - OK.
You hear me?
Yes, sir.
COACH: She's starting to get tired, Michelle!
[BELL RINGS]
ANNOUNCER: The bell in round number three.
COACH: That's it!
Strong!
Right hands too!
Right down the pipe.
Now, now, now, straight!
[GROANS]
ANNOUNCER: Oh, man!
Kicking, yet it cost her, as Tiburcio capitalizes.
But the scramble--
COACH: Keep turning! Keep turning!
Fight, peanut!
Fight!
'Atta girl! 'Atta girl!
Keep fighting!
ANNOUNCER: And now Tiburcio thought she was going
to transition into an arm bar. Wait a minute.
She's going for the guillotine, arm and guillotine choke
attempt by Tiburcio.
ANNOUNCER: Oh, did she tap?
ANNOUNCER: Oh!
Herica Tiburcio, in her Invicta FC debut,
has become the Invicta FC Champion!
Mama Mia!
ANNOUNCER: She locked in that arm in guillotine,
holds her to the mat, stretches with everything she has--
[MUSIC PLAYING]

ANNOUNCER: A new Invicta FC Atomweight Champion
of the world, Herica Tiburcio!

[CHEERING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]

Come on, peanut.
Let's get out of here.
[MUSIC PLAYING]

MICHELLE WATERSON: Ugh, it's frustrating.
COACH: Yeah, well, we're going to get it back.
MAN: Get it back, yeah. It's a temporary position.
MICHELLE WATERSON: I'm so sorry.
I just--
COACH: Don't be sorry.
We're sorry.
MICHELLE WATERSON: Oh, it's so frustrating.

You can come in. - Are you OK?
MICHELLE WATERSON: Uh-huh.
[INAUDIBLE] here.

You're going to put your--
MICHELLE WATERSON: She's fine.

[INAUDIBLE] your mommy's OK.
MICHELLE WATERSON: It'll be OK.
Mommy's fine.
Come here, honey.
Mommy's OK.
That's what I do, OK?
I'm not hurt, I promise.
I'm OK.
I'm OK.

Hey, it's OK.
You know, sometimes you win.
Sometimes you lose.
OK?
It's OK, sweetie.
Mommy's good.
OK?
Don't be worried.
It happens.
OK?
Want to kiss my boo-boo?
Will you kiss it?

Mommy's OK, sweetie.

What's wrong?

I know, mommy just has to go back and--
you know, just got to work on whatever didn't work on her
and get better.
OK?
I'm fine.
As long as I got you.

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