Kim Couture is apparently not pleased with all of the media coverage depicting her as a fragile flower that needs to be protected. She’s gone public to clear up the record:

When asked if she wanted to quit the fight when all the blood started flowing, Kim said “of course not” and that she had been bloodied before when practicing in the gym. “I am not the type to freak at blood.”

She also is not the type to quit due to pain. Her jaw was broken in two places. It was broken clean through at the mid-line of her chin and also below her right ear. She admitted that she was in a considerable amount of pain for the whole 15 minutes, but didn’t consider quiting an option.

Neither did she want her husband Randy to throw in the towel at any point as the fight progressed. “I would not have been at all happy if he had done that.”

She actually felt she dominated Rosa in rounds two and three because in spite of the pain in her separated jaw, and the fact that it hurt terribly as the broken bones overlapped, she was able to continue to take her opponent down “at will.”

The good news is that Kim got a second opinion on her broken jaw and elected for surgery to insert titanium plates in her jaw. This apparently allows her to eat solid food the same night the surgery is done. As for her fighting future, she sounds more upset that the negative media coverage has made it sound like she was dominated by her opponent:

However now Kim is anxious for a rematch and a chance to redeem herself insisting “I can take her down and her ground game is not as good as mine.”

She made the interviewer promise to watch the tapes of the fight again, disregard the blood, which she admitted “was disgusting to see,” and notice that she (Couture) landed a lot of shots of her own, and was trying to submit Rosa with just five seconds left in the third round. The judges unanimous 27-30 decision was lower than she liked, “but it must have been very difficult for them to watch (due to all the blood coming from her mouth).

All in all, Kim is anxious to return to fighting and says she is planning on a win next time. Way to go Kim! You are one hell of a woman MMA fighter.

We’ll correct one thing the writer of this article said: Kim isn’t just ‘one hell of a woman MMA fighter’, she’s one hell of a fighter, period.

Our article on the Kim Couture fight:

The Kim Couture fight in retrospect @ The Savage Science

Kim Couture on her debut fight @ Bleacher Report