Paige VanZant will have the eyes of the MMA world on her tonight when she takes on Amanda Ribas at UFC 251.
The stacked card features popular fighter VanZant, 26, who has a raft of followers on social media and is known for media work and modelling outside of the octagon.
VanZant boasts an 8-4 professional MMA record and fights tonight for the first time since beating Rachael Ostovich in January 2019 at UFC Fight Night 143.
Oregon native VanZant has appeared on television series Dancing With the Stars and Chopped in the United States and has garnered 2.6million followers on her Instagram page.
Pro MMA fighter Austin Vanderford is her husband. The pair married in 2018 and have become known for their entertaining social media posts.
Vanzant released her biography, Rise: Surviving the Fight of My Life, in 2018.
Tonight she faces a tough opponent in Ribas - who boasts a 9-1 professional record.
VanZant is a Christian and has bravely spoken in the past about being the victim of a gang-rape as a 14-year-old and of consistent bullying throughout her teenage years in high school.
Tonight's fight had been due to take place in March but was rescheduled after VanZant suffered an arm injury.
