5 female UFC fighters who are tougher than they look

#3 Roxanne Modafferi

Roxanne Modafferi simply doesn't look like a fighter at all

Current Flyweight contender Roxanne Modafferi is one of the longest-serving veterans in female MMA. ‘The Happy Warrior’ has been fighting professionally since 2003, and with a record of 22-15 she’s basically fought a who’s who of the sport over the years, from Shayna Baszler and Marloes Coenen to Andrea Lee and Raquel Pennington.

She also looks nothing like what you’d expect a professional MMA fighter to look like. Unlike fighters like Michelle Waterson and Paige VanZant, Modafferi doesn’t sport model-like good looks, but she doesn’t look like a badass like Cris Cyborg or Amanda Nunes either.

Modafferi is more like the female equivalent to a Kenny Florian or Joe Lauzon – she simply looks like an average woman, the type of person who would sit quietly in the corner at a wild party and avoid eye contact. With a smiley personality to match her unassuming looks, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Modafferi would be a pushover inside the Octagon – but that’s far from the case, as her current UFC rank of #7 – and recent win over Barb Honchak – shows.