Detroit Free Press
By MIKE BRUDENELL
DETROIT FREE PRESS SPORTS WRITER
Windsor’s Kristi King hopes to be working in South Africa’s spectacular city of Cape Town this summer, where she’d be modeling for Sports Illustrated. But first the fourth-grade school teacher and graduate from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, has a date at the Palace tonight.
King, 25, will be hosting the professional mixed martial arts “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre” event there, an evening of full-contact fighting promoted by the Impact Fight League and Donofrio Entertainment. King was named the Impact Fight League Ring Girl of the Year in 2010. The Free Press caught up with her earlier this week.
QUESTION: MMA isn’t a photo shoot. There will be blood. How’s your stomach?
ANSWER: “Look, I love boxing – the jabs, uppercuts. I work out, throw punches. Cage fighting is a little more intense. I’m amazed the fighters can get up after being taken down on their backs. But it is exciting. The blood, well, I might have to peak through my fingers, but, really, it’s the skill I enjoy.”
Q: Like to have a fight?
A: “No, I’ll stick to meeting the fans, signing autographs and having fun outside of the cage, thanks.”
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