Liz Carmouche Looking Forward to Clean Slate With UFC Fight Night 123 Bout

Liz Carmouche spoke with MMAjunkie ahead of her flyweight fight with Alexis Davis at UFC Fight Night 123 this weekend. Highlights are below:

On moving to flyweight: “To me, what this fight on Saturday represents is a clean, blank slate. At 125, I don’t have a record. … This is a chance to recreate, to redefine, to discover new things about myself.”

On her preparation for the fight: “A lot has changed in preparation. We anticipated 125 coming around – we knew it was around the corner, kind of heard the rumors. So (I was) trying to make sure to do it as healthy as possible. Instead of being that person where, ‘OK, now that I got the phone call, I’m going to get ready for the fight,’ we started back in February. … It was, let’s evolve into this weight and let your body do it the right way. We started early on so I could be set and come into fight week ready to go – injury-free and excited.”

On having a new outlook at flyweight: “The mistakes I made, in concrete there was no doubt I knew what happened in that (first) Alexis Davis fight. I didn’t show up as that fighter. I had my own things going on and I let them get in the way that fight. She won that fight, and I’ll never take that from her. You can be sick, you can be broken, you can be torn – physically, mentally, it doesn’t matter. They won that fight. … But the fighter she’s fighting Saturday is not the person she fought before.”