Fight Path: Strikeforce’s scrappy soccer vet Zoila Frausto fueled by Miesha Tate trash-talk

Zoila Frausto was a mending former soccer player with a boxing background and a repaired knee ligament when she spotted a group in her local gym doing a mixed-martial-arts workout.

“I was doing some kickboxing teaching because I had a background it, and I see these guys doing their thing,” said Frausto, who meets Miesha Tate at the March 26 Strikeforce Challengers 7 event. “They were hitting bags and conditioning and training and throwing up and struggling for breath.

“I said, ‘Dude, that’s what I want to be doing.'”