UFC Vegas 112’s Jamey-Lyn Horth talks Canadian Fighter Sisterhood

Canada has always been a hotbed for MMA. However, despite the long and storied history of legendary fighters, there is still no major concern about MMA fighters in certain parts of the country. This is especially true in the western part of the country, and even more so when you look at female fighters. For those reasons, Jamey-Lyn Horth’s team forced her to come out and travel a bit after her last fight.

“My team wanted me to just step out of my comfort zone and go somewhere new and spend some time immersing myself in a different scheme and a different kind of style,” she explained. “Every gym has a little bit of a way they do things differently and a little bit of a style. So I had the opportunity to go out and go to Niagara Top Team and train with Jasmine [Jasudavicius] with her run-up to her fight she had here in Vancouver against Manon [Fiorot].”

That high-level training and different lifestyle helped Horth progress leading up to her fight at UFC Vegas 112. However, Jasudavicius was far from her first encounter with a UFC training partner. Despite being a bit spread out across Western Canada, there are many warriors who come together for the greater good of the country.

“You mentioned Lupita [Godinez]“We fought each other twice as amateurs… we became really good friends, almost like sisters and teammates,” Horth explained. “We trained together, I think three, four days a week. Right where we are, every gym has some kind of token woman and we all do our own things at home, but we all connect and work together. Our coaching staff is close and they all work together.”

With the help of each gym’s ‘token woman’, the different communities come together to create a super team. It allows them to look different and see what they do with different eyes.

“We have wrestling coaches in two areas and they all come to watch our sparring on Saturdays, and they come to our striking stuff on Tuesdays and Thursdays,” she said. “We all chat and we’re all like one big family. Each gym has a token woman, so we kind of jump around to each other’s gyms and kind of help each other out as to who’s fighting and who’s not.”

Now she hopes that the preparation will lead to success when she steps into the cage against Tereza Bleda. She not only wants to raise her hand on Saturday, but also hopes for something more.

“You know, my entire professional career, before I got into the UFC, I never once went the distance. I always finished it in the first, second or third round,” Horth said. “I would like to be able to get that first win in the time frame.”

You can catch Horth’s fight with Tereza Bleda this Saturday as part of the UFC Vegas 112 prelims. They air on ESPN+ starting at 7:00 PM EST.

You can also check out the full audio of this interview with Jamey-Lyn Horth on the latest edition of the Top Turtle MMA Podcast. It starts below at 34:48.