Eight of Paige VanZant’s Best Photos From Puerto Vallarta

The MMA fighter posed for the magazine in 2019.

Cara O’Bleness | Dec 22, 2022

Paige VanZant made her SI Swimsuit debut when she posed for the magazine in 2019 for photographer Walter Chin in Puerto Vallarta.

The 28-year-old mixed martial artist is a former UFC fighter and is currently signed to All Elite Wrestling and Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship as a wrestler and boxer, respectively.

Since making her one-time SI Swimsuit appearance, VanZant continues to share bikini p hotos on Instagram with her 3.2 million followers and has her own line of apparel, homeware, drinkware and accessories.

VanZant chatted with ESPN MMA in March of this year about her future in combat sports.

“You know, for me I always say I have a plan of what I want to do. Right now, I want to do pro wrestling, I want to do pro fighting, I want to do bare knuckle boxing,” she said. “I’m pretty much open as far as career-wise, I do exactly what I want to do when I want to do it... I’m very passionate about all the things that I get into and I try to take them on 100%.”

“I know it’s a very athletic, demanding industry, but that’s where I feel like I shine,” she later added of pro wrestling.

Below are eight of our favorite images from VanZant’s photo shoot in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

Paige VanZant — Walter Chin/Sports Illustrated

Published Dec 22, 2022

CARA O’BLENESS

Cara O’Bleness is a writer and editor on the Lifestyle and Trending News team for SI Swimsuit. Prior to joining SI Swimsuit in 2022, she worked as a writer and editor across a number of content verticals, including food, lifestyle, health and wellness, and small business and entrepreneurship. In her free time, O’Bleness loves reading, spending time with her family and making her way through Michigan’s many microbreweries. She is a graduate of Michigan State University’s School of Journalism.