back 10 months after giving birth to Araya. "It hurt really bad at first to get hit in the chest," she says. "I think I forgot how it felt to get punched." After winning that fight, she joined the all-women's Invicta Fighting Championships and later beat the 105-pound atomweight champion, Jessica Penne, for the title, despite being a 10-1 underdog. "I knew deep in my heart that I could beat her," she says, "because on top of training harder than I ever had before, I was also taking care of my little one." Waterson became the No. 1 women's atomweight fighter in the world with that win, a title she defended in 2014 with a knockout punch against Yasuko Tamada. But as she continued to excel, and asAraya got older, Waterson would soon test the decision she and Gomez made to allow Araya to watch all of her mother's fights. Waterson and her husband, Josh Gomez, left, have decided to let their daughter watch her mother fight -- a choice that's been tested at times. Caitlin O'Hara for ESPN ARAYA'S BED IN Albuquerque is covered with more than a dozen stuffed animals, and she has a name for every one. She has carefully placed the Hello Kitties, the snowman, the tiger and the puppy dog around her as she prepares to talk about the time the blood came pouring out of her mother's nose when Rose Namajunas put her into a rear naked choke in 2017. Araya had just turned 6 when Waterson lost that