COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ecstatic.
That’s how bantamweight Alexis Davis said she felt when her manager called her to tell her the hush-hush news that she was under serious consideration to fight featherweight Gina Carano.
Carano, after all, was still the biggest star in the sport despite a lengthy absence from it, and she was about to get even bigger with the Steven Soderbergh-helmed “Haywire.”