Tecia Torres partner
Ahead of her featured strawweight fight against Mackenzie Dern at UFC 273, we take a look at the partner of Tecia Torres, her kids and more
Tecia Torres began her martial arts journey practising Taekwondo at the age of three. She received her black belt 12 years later, and went on to have an amateur Muay Thai career where she had a record of 16 wins and 4 losses. She is also a black belt in karate and a blue belt in jiu-jitsu. She is currently ranked number 7 in the UFC women’s strawweight division.
Torres made her professional MMA debut back in October 2016, and won the fight by unanimous decision. She went 4-0 in Invicta FC with impressive victories over current champion Rose Namajunas, Paige Van Zant, and Felice Herrig. With a 4-0 clean record, she was signed to the UFC later on.
She made her UFC debut against Angela Magaña in 2014 and won the fight by unanimous decision. After winning her first three fights inside the octagon, Torres would then move on to fight former rival Rose Namajunas. Unfortunately for her, she lost the fight via unanimous decision, but went on to rack up three straight wins post that. The period from 2018 to 2019 were the worst in her career as she lost four straight fights all through decisions.
Since then she has won three straight fights in the quest for a career resurgence and another run for the title.
Outside the octagon, Torres spends most of her time with her longtime girlfriend and fellow UFC fighter Raquel Pennington. The pair are a few of the openly gay fighters competing in the UFC.
Pennington is an American mixed martial artist that fights in the bantamweight division. She made her professional debut in March 2012 and had immediate success inside the cage. After a break of about a year, she returned in 2018 to fight at UFC 224 in a high-profile match against Amanda Nunes, in which, for the first time in UFC history, two openly gay fighters face each other. Her achievements include The Ultimate Fighter 18 Fight of the Season against Jessamyn Duke and Performance of the Night (One time) against Jéssica Andrade. We guide you through the highlights of her personal life.
As a teenager, Pennington had a girlfriend whose father was a professional boxer, and every time she visited her, she took some time to box on the punching bag that her girlfriend’s father had hung in the basement. When she was called up for “The Ultimate Fighter 18” in 2013, it was her mother who drove her all night from Colorado Springs to Las Vegas to make it in time for the show.
Not much is known about Raquel Pennington’s family except the fact that her mother’s name is Rose Pennington.
Torres was born in Fall River, Massachusetts, but moved to Coral Springs with her single mom, older sister and a younger brother at the age of five. She is of Puerto Rican, Portuguese and Irish descent. Her family has roots in Maunabo, Puerto Rico.
Not much is known about her family since Torres likes to keep those things private.
Although Tecia Torres and Raquel Pennington have been engaged, the pair do not have any baby together as of yet.
Tecia Torres and Raquel Pennington got engaged in May 2017.
Tecia Torres’ girlfriend is Raquel Pennington.
Raquel Pennington is 33 years old.
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