First Filipina MMA world champion Denice Zamboanga reveals "the secret" behind her success: "That one is never skipped"

More than her rigorous preparation in her training camps, Filipina MMA superstar Denice Zamboanga recently spilled the beans about the one thing that completes her routine every time she competes.

Zamboanga equips herself with prayers alongside her family and teammates before stepping inside the ring, as she told Atleta Filipina in a recent interview:

"We always pray together as a family and as a team before entering the cage. That one is never skipped. That's the power and the secret."

Watch Denice Zamboanga's interview here:

This observance of 'The Menace' has helped her accumulate an impressive 7-2 win-loss card under the world's largest martial arts organization. Zamboanga currently rides a four-fight win streak that dates back to December 2022.

In her most recent outing, Zamboanga scored a second-round TKO finish of Alyona Rassohyna at ONE Fight Night 27 last January to capture the ONE interim atomweight MMA world title.

This championship breakthrough has also made the 28-year-old athlete the first-ever female MMA fighter to win a world title from the Philippines.

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Denice Zamboanga reveals that she needed to sacrifice her family time to hone skills overseas

The T-Rex Mixed Martial Arts Training Center-affiliated athlete also shared during her interview with Atleta Filipina that she needed to sacrifice her time for her loved ones to maximize the opportunity of sharpening her skills in a foreign land at the beginning of her career.

According to Denice Zamboanga, she endured the pain of not being by their side to fully set her sights on developing her martial arts arsenal, as she said:

"There are a lot of challenges, of course. My first few fights, because I trained in Thailand and away from home without my family, I kept telling myself that I had to endure the sacrifice of being away from them so that I can really develop my skills as a fighter."