Combate Americas strawweight Desiree “Dirty Dez” Yanez life story is written on her skin.

On August 28, Yanez faces Criszaida Adames (2-0) in a women’s 120-pound catchweight co-main event contest, which could have title implications.

In December,  Yanez was defeated by champion Melissa “Super Melly” Martinez, in a close fight by way of split decision.

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FIRST TATTOO

An all-star softball player in high school, Yanez understands what a victory next month means for her career but has a story to tell with tattoos.

Today, every time she looks at her tattoos it reminds her of a period in her life like the owl, which she sports on her right arm. An owl is an animal that reminds Yanez of her parents, who she says were wise.

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SIGNIFICANCE OF TATTOO

“The day I turned 18, I went to get a little tiny tattoo on my wrist of music notes; I didn’t know why I just like music,” whose friends have worked on her tattoos. “I am not kidding, a week after I went to get my whole side rib and then I couldn’t stop.”

Furthermore she added, “I have a lot of tattoos and they have meanings like a timeline of my life. My right arm symbolizes my family and the left arm is about a sad tragedy of when they died and what I did to survive that and how I became who I am today.”

“It is cool because sometimes I forget I have them until people point them out,” Sometimes I remember and I look down and say darn I really have for a thirty-year-old I have a lot and shows what I have been too. For me tattoos are a book. People get them to look cool but I’ve been getting them for ten years, so it is more of a story for me.”

Music runs in her family; hence, she has musical notes. She can not sing but her sister can, and her parents had a band.

A love poison, a skeleton and a rat fill her left side.

ADDING MORE ART

“People ask me why I have a rat, well, it is because yes rats are gross, but they will survive the apocalypse. It was either that or a roach and represents me being a survivor long story short.”

A passionate fisherwoman, she plans on adding more tattoos. No tattoos represent her fighting career yet, but she plans on adding one.

Catch her in action August 28 against Adames.