This Former Miss USA Just Won Her Boxing Debut

Whitney Miller is next set to come out swinging in MMA.

Whitney Miller is often referred to as a former Miss USA for a very simple reason, in 2012 she was Miss USA. But when headlines, like the one above, scream about a beauty queen turned combat sports aficionado, it tends to conjure an image of a dainty prima donna who gingerly ventured into fighting. 

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That’s not Miller, who was an athlete long before she joined the weird world of beauty pageants. So when she took up Brazilian jiu-jitsu in 2014 it was the natural progression of her interest in sports, not a turn away from her life as a beauty queen.

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The latest step in her life as an athlete came Thursday night, when Miller made her amateur fight debut and won. 

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The two-fisted beauty has said in the past that she may one day even give MMA a try.  “I want to go in there and I want to know if I really want to do this,” she told MMA Junkie in 2014.

Two-and-a-half years later, she’s finally made her amateur boxing debut. At this pace she’ll be ready to join the UFC in 2035, just in time for Ronda Rousey’s return. 

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