A biography for Aspen Laddhasn’t been written yet.
“I'm always training regardless of opponent, regardless if I have a fight.”
“I get excited equally for every single fight.”
“I'm always about what's in front of me, not what's five steps ahead already.”
“Germaine's a great competitor.”
“Any fight I've been in is pressure.”
“I've had people question my chin more so than a male teammate, for example. It's common for people to believe that we function at a lesser degree than the males in the sport.”
“If you want to engage and you want to go to war, that's what the people want to see.”
“We all want to win, we all want to go in and beat the opponent.”
“Even current champions, there might be somebody who's not even ranked yet and their skill set will impact them in a way that will affect that champion negatively. It's not the rankings. It's not this matchup versus this matchup. It's skill set versus skill set and that's going to give that person a problem.”
“They have the weight class, but honestly, if you're a 145er in the UFC, I would recommend if you can go down, do it.”
“It would be amazing if we were just basically judged on the merits of what we do, but we're not. That's not part of it.”
“For everything I do outside of fighting, it's very active.”
“It's like you fight so hard to get to the UFC but then you have to fight even harder to stay there. You fight so hard to get the but it's even harder to maintain the belt. There is no end game. It's a journey and you've got to be ready for all of it.”
“Every time I'm preparing for a fight, it's like the end of the world but every fight and every performance itself is not worth going into a deep dark depression over or get all hopped up on yourself.”
“That was definitely the whole focus the year I turned 18. Like, 'Hey, I'm old enough now. Let's get this ball rolling.' We were looking for the soonest fight I could take. I would have fought on my birthday if I could have.”
“People are not here to see a boring decision win. They are not here to see a, 'Oh, I kinda, sorta want to spar with this girl.'”
“As a fighter I want to show, that it's not... you have a lot of tit-for-tat kind of fights. People who go in and are like, 'I'm going to maybe try to win' - that's not what it's about.”
“Everybody in the UFC would be a weight class up.”
“I like to compete. I like that feeling that you're never bored.”
“There's always stuff to learn, and it's always changing.”