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Dyer was in love with the striking arts, having trained in muay thai since the age of 8. While Dyer still loves muay thai, she understood at some point that there was not much money to be made in the sport. Dyer had to choose between transitioning to boxing or MMA, and chose MMA as she didn’t want to give up kicking.
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Dyer admits that she initially found the grappling part of MMA a little “fruity.” However, she started appreciating the nuances of grappling once she started learning the art.
“I used to hate MMA,” Dyer said on “The Ariel Helwani Show.” “I’ve done muay thai for so long, and I love muay thai. Muay thai is beautiful, muay thai is amazing. Unfortunately, you can’t make money in muay thai. So I transitioned to MMA when I was 17-18. It was either boxing or MMA. But I love kicking too much to do boxing. So I chose MMA at the end of the day. I just thought MMA was a bit weird. I thought grappling was a bit fruity because I didn’t understand it. So I was like, I don’t want to watch people hug people. I just want to watch striking, so watch-muay thai or K-1. I started MMA, and then I started appreciating how hard MMA is, how hard jiu-jitsu is, when I started learning.”
Dyer (7-1) suffered her only career loss against Carol Folo on Dana White’s Contender Series last year. Despite coming up short on the Contender Series, Dyer earned a contract and made her debut in front of a home crowd at UFC London last year. Dyer dropped her opponent, Ravena Oliveira, with knees in the second round and finished her with vicious ground-and-pound. “The Nightmare” also earned a $100,000 “Performance of the Night” bonus for her debut win.
This article first appeared at Recent News on Sherdog.com
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