Molly McCann | Starting MMA, The UFC Island & Her Inspirations | Energized Show

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What is up and welcome to the latest Energized Show! On this episode we have UFC athlete "Meatball" Molly McCann on the show to discuss How she started MMA, The UFC Island & Her inspirations. Check it out, enjoy, subscribe for more and as always Stay Energized! Follow us on…

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Kind: captions Language: en okay what's going on guys and welcome to a brand new episode of energized today we have a very special guest on the show we have the former Cage Warriors flyweight champion and the 14th ranked UFC flyweight meepo Molly McCann Harry do your money I'm alright boys all right just very cool yeah what's the void like we it's a community spirit I'd like our streets everyone's looking out for each other everyone's being being awfully to be honest I'd say 80% of the people in the city I take it serious and then you have the 20% sewer just like I don't know I don't have one yesterday and he was 12 lads playing football and I just bought a used massive you're doing some serious road work at the moment do you remember ten miles a day you know yeah yeah box and roots name I just cause it's like just going through training session and go home so forth I can only do sprints no war as far as so I'll be the fifth situation of Michelle from connect is anyway Molly you could put people I don't know how did you actually start doing MMA I know you just mentioned do boxing weeks yeah I started boxing was about the lesson and then MMA came on the salmon as well 23 and I literally watched runs around on the TV and then literally what I see in her face I emailed me and said I want to be like Ronda Rousey and then five years to the day I won the way of title engage values and then it was like six years of fierce fight in the UFC no seven years in I'm top 14 in the world my name and it's just been the best experience and the best time Molly do you think for your own personal career that the coronavirus might almost be blessing the skies in some way because you were scheduled for Ashley Evans and Lauren correct yep yeah and she wasn't right but now if you fly over to America and fight on the island was gonna write the poems yet you know what she's not ranked because she was injured however she's being run she was like I think top 10 and buns and weights that she was copied she was talking to the flyweight division and for me it was a name and it was gulps atif and it wasn't gruffly yeah I've had one Lawsons me in the UFC or not regardless all kinds of once it's just to get one back Annie and I really wanted to submit that if I'm being honest I see the fight getting consoles honestly nothing was really lost because all there the preparation doesn't just disappear when every finale and I will retain and it'll stay with me so just gives me more time to get ready for the next fight it was a bit I mean it's obviously a bit sad when you think think about like I had 14 weeks to get ready for this fight so I sacrificed a lot emotionally physically I'm trying on silly boy come round to get me swings and roundabouts money were you anyway air con said fine Ashley for the pipe in Casselton yes yeah I was given a phone call last week and they basically said they they just basically said um get an X amount of money on it should be with me today or tomorrow so I can't complain they've looks after the faces and and of course the awards to know to mean that's a big thing and I'm the biggest episode probably gonna meet oh no so noise ones hello this is for my doubt it what what what the hell make or the Liverpool put their staff on furlough leave and then going back on their word and what's it ever to do actually so I think ever been in the community and I've been I'll help in life everybody lives in live appeared to be honest because they have a massive a charity effort in the community and I just when it was announced that they was gonna do that a Liverpool the whole city was just like a you messin this is a way for us city and use of billionaires and you're gonna make the taxpayer paint which is buttons to them to me will never leave like that's not gonna go away people will remember for the the players actually played wages yeah that's the base loads do but a nobody you're married whenever they're doing great yeah DHL Oh aim I'm get me inflatable Qi just so it can sit in the front because in the back you've got a must we've got a big erected Lee frame wait for me bugs it over so it's yards so two very big so a fourth we're gonna be in this lockdown for another six weeks our safe on the and a nice cheered and said of a census it's our name understeer Molly another thing that I've knows as well you become a big fan favorite in them amazing like for instance we saw you in Dublin when a lemur quarters headline bellator Tobin and people hanging out here yeah how's all this attention like I'll make you feeling these days even when I walk the dog around the park and it's my kids will call me meatball janae to me and it's not like there's Molly makan it's before Molly OH where'd that come from me Bob I used to work and subway when I was on uni and I went I went to the gym after a shift and a smells of a heap and she's dreads and then we cooked sheds asked me for Molly for him yeah I don't think it'll ever again get normal him it'll never feel like real life and I think it's very humbling to be honest when someone asks for a picture or when people just know who you are yeah it's a it's a bit of a enough formation that I'm where I want to be in terms of people respect Who I am what I'm about yeah I think it's your attitude the way you do your fight I'd say I think like what I'm like what a painting was was when you warned by decision and there yeah it was a bit of it was a matter on your face he was so broken or both it was just so you never say die attitude that people are just drawn to as well you know yeah thinking the UFC debut were lost Machoke those and I found all we said him I'll go out on the shield so aim I or B's think I've got more of a will to win and someone else and I think that kind of proved that we I'm gonna be finished so I'm not gonna give up so the only way that you will beat me is by pop me Cicely like help you put an armbar you can put me you aim you works of course money do you think that in the women's flyweight division it's a bit like search angles appear and then like everyone else sort of dubstep blow but off you've been world champion before in cage where first you trained for a championship point do you think that puts you ahead of the other folders in your division I'm not sure I don't know I think my submission is probably one of the most feared its officials like I think the weight divisions just like like I don't even know what it is you know to me do this anymore anti-war job I don't know Shevchenko is there what a feel like she's nearly clean the division I was I think she's gotta fight next aim I finger I need another winner another two wins and then I'll get my girl I know you think you were strangle plays oh I think if I'm being deadly honest with you I came from boxing and she's accountant to strike him so I grew war a lane and how to beat people like that Ginetta mean a the way that yeah it's happy is you have to cover the distance quick and not get hit and if you watch when I fight that's what I do well I'm not saying I wouldn't take some lips and I'm not saying I wouldn't give some what I could probably I could put me a me last bottom solid on it your firearm Molly tells me your friendship believe McCourt because this is my according the best romances and all of them a moment I was fighting cage what is really him she just got science' cage what is and just Lester I was have respect singles and though she just won the I months I'm ashamed if you can you do that oh yeah we hear it screaming kill jeez a horrific perfect backdrop so me but look it's a record player boss ideas so me stuck to do every day in PlayStation let me tell you in but yeah so I just said come and train she came and train then I went over to here and it's just been Buffy for like she's like my sister and we there's no competition between either one of our success and there's no there's there's no negativity like I said Li a you've been in Bellator for three fights and have Maine being a main events I said you've surpassed me in three fights - no - I mean I'm just pausing and happy for I said I can't even get on a main cause let alone headline I remember I interviewed her a while ago and I think we lecture first for Bellator and I said to her I was like you potentially become like Ronda Rousey of Ireland you know and I think she took it with a pinch of salt but then like two events later she's then headlined in Bellator Dublin and I was like I'm not surprised yeah that's great don't worry yeah I mean the stories they Jeannot to me an old hards and how much she puts into train and no one can match that and not one place and I know on this ear does uncanny what she does a and how good she makes it look when she's there when a him it's nice to watch the journey of someone who striving for excellence and greatness and it's nice to see the guy winner yeah yeah I think he is like they always turn on the K for people you mean there's no see more than newer as well yeah I mean she's got the story that can make someone who's biased towards what we do change the opinion on what we zip don't mean if you've got a purist though you've got more of it middle or upper class man or woman who were like err women shouldn't fight and then and then you watch someone do it with such finesse he was such a lovely human and like the biggest Christian I've ever met you know to me like being a woman I don't know how can't you like hear them respect say yeah she just change the narrative good luck oh sorry and Amos you play I see you're a bit of a gamer there so did all they call it juicy UFC FIFA Red Dead Redemption Grand Theft Auto I've got to know your pain you see who'd you play us who your favorite people to play us I know me go away I've made myself to be honest aim but ago I've been go much further lately a name I can't really play too well can be very honest with you ball I'd be important online to the funds they ask me and I'll play yeah and I've just been playing on funds is a problem Darren Taylor yeah do you think he'll also be offer fighting on the island I reckon so B's gamers become his new it's just a lot yeah Easter started a little gay like three days ago so well I think it's come at the perfect time cuz I know I'm more cheese train and he's training our body can just be a dad and they be no professional and being a dad's are committing that really resonates with Ireland I think it's like the realness on the freshness of it I think it's because I'd say 60% of the population is second or third generation Irish like mojo like my Nana and granddad on both sides a fully blown Irish going to be a Don King I'm really trying to see where it is well yeah who do you want to fight you on the Oilers I you know determine how your show now I actually haven't Smith or will you take on any one round or what's the plan you know I'd love to get a text on my phone and it'd be like North Islands and I'll go I got it [Music] [Laughter] that's brilliant yeah give me anyone I like give me anyone I don't give a flying out of me and I'm down suffice aim years ago I'm doing 12 freeze on the bug I'm running 10 miles I'm doing the fastest five K's I've ever done in me life I'm just just got to make ways that probably take me a week to make waste you know to me and so just give me a week to go sometime you know more like few money oh thank you and rocked our madoff areas we'll fight you know what a lot of places I know Roxy our trains before before I went to Vegas and stayed there and she was so lovely to me and she introduced me to him what did I offer the face Carm I can't man but she introduced me think what she knew how much I love doughnuts and she bought loads of doughnuts and brought into the hotel and I've just got so much respect for and when she was fighting me she bar babe I said you are going to beat this Gail I just knew it because she's the old-school and experienced mace he was young naive and I seemed very much similarities than me as Macey had in our fight and then she got beat and I thought I wonder how you're gonna come back from this now and not be sure your true character and if people will actually look you wanna both aim I'd lost the fight Roxy cuz it's like she's an amazing a true mixed martial artist she seems like a lovely person as well she is drummer boy would mount he's almost like I don't really like you in turn but she's always like the gatekeeper by giving Abby Ross I'm not a fairy you know you're in your restaurant and you know if you have work to do to get the tile yeah yeah I feel she's very dangerous in certain areas and a feel because the way she strikes isn't offered oxygen you you can't fire me so it's like you it's really hard to deal with and then she's on yeah and then when she's on you she's like a blanket on top of the agent over me in like mmm when we grappled this was years of them probably four years ago no five years four years ago was yeah a name and I don't well today to me but now the thing all right I'd really be able to Homs in South Melbourne she's training with Jojo Accords words all the time so no we're striking defense is gonna get a lot of basketball it's a fun fight it is yeah I think I'll see it again sort of be that rocker versus striker macho for like I would say you probably close the gap on your rockland much more so than she would have her story just more so no Gil a lot of she can teach know about new tricks to mean I'm sure that her says her career she's been in so many fights but it's quite difficult then to you know completely change what you're doing and then make work like if he always looked at River BJ Penn and went to change his strike and I'm like II just look silly Tom's can tell you Audrey guess that's one of those things that is quite hard to mix that off yeah I know how hard that I've worked on my jujitsu and my wrestling name and I think last year after I got B Thor went away for the year Mironov and I just showed the way as a whole new me and I know she's she partially done that to know to mean like a strike on house come on boy I think you are right and what you say in an same job it's a lot harder to teach strike and then it is to teach Gruffalo however when you're put under the cosh so say if someone wanted me and start to throw and I all those you wouldn't see me panic the same way as what I did when I got beat by Jim sonoda me and way I think it's really hard to do that strike and where you can't be conditioned that later age to take one on the chin absolutely tell us this money how'd you see the main event to UFC 249 going down how do you see Gaetti versus their Ferguson I just I love Goethe I seed I was in UFC Detroit 219 with him I was cornered and someone and I was in his change in dream and I absolutely loved what he's about and I loved his coach I loved his boxing style I loved his leg kicks I just don't think he's gonna half the cards you know as what so he's got a the mini and I just think if it's fired round fight so he's probably gonna add you if I'm more interested in rows number unis and Sons Rajesh just like you yeah because the first rounds of that was the best five minutes of mixed martial arts I'd see him from a female aim in terms of she negated any and undred through one day she dominated job heads off the centerline just done strong on the ring didn't look like she had put like mmm she dropped them round after it didn't she like it was there she was gonna finish the face it was just the freak accidents and I know while much a rose struggles with her mind as well as everyone else those so it's nice to see that she loved on there a lot of scenario yeah I named I feel I feel like him she's who I aspire to big I mean she's she's beautiful technician yeah but most I want a spiritual level for meself a she lost their face fights in the UFC which was little finale and then I had the same with my UFC they in you and then he practices I I seen was very much similar to what - I'm here for processes similar to what mine is and and I bring them as being quite similar and I just thought I'm gonna stop being this big Mophie human and I'm just gonna be a little bit more humble not like who's ever disrespect football I'm just thinking I'm just gonna let me fighting through the Torsen um and and that's what I'm doing Shinoda mean and I'm just married and mitad in here well what you're doing is very like people resignate with you you know me because you can tell you're just being yourself it's good way to be yeah yep carry on I just think for the bottom of the bath of me I can't eyes my emotion so I'm like a book name I was very black and white there's no gray generally means aim I think if you can be an honest to Mandana honest face that people will always relate to their I want you to succeed yeah exactly yeah pulled out way to seed off like on down this time around I think Rose is going to destroy you because I know like Rose can cope with adversity in terms of Jim M bear when Connor through the finger the boss like she was on the bus and then so when I was an absolutely smash their aim she beat you on it again Jeannot to me in so we I I text my girlfriend's page yesterday and I said when I seen that the cards is going ahead she's she's isolating with her family and not with me and I said we're not we're getting a pizza and a pack of like a puffer beer each and we'll zoom and watch these fights together lately isn't yeah by calm we falling for you combining mm-hmm every night honestly thought she thought the minute she's not here yeah yeah I saw a Birmingham Jersey oh yeah she's just theme she's just last season she took a break from football and she's just got a new job what she's gonna announce it cuz it's like it's next level him so I can't say much until she's announced that or she's a you just think oh my god you're gonna change the Wales wait you new job so really happy for if she's like for Liverpool what would you do I used to play full of appeal oh did I yeah like to play football and I used to play and she's the place left so she's an episode ii and she's a liver pill funny place for Everton and I was a funny playful of appeal so here system change the world with her new job she found the cure the crown horse that's gonna be unbelievable Fair Play page will you be tune in next week to play anytime soon run the first 5k today and I tried to go as fast as a cause and be long so being him from me I don't like I was doing six and a half minute miles and I'm gonna try and get that answer when I was 18 playing football I could do five minute miles so I'm gonna try and get that position left wing oh yes London McCann I know I was about 51 kilo and would just fly through people and I'd be like he had him a boxset and they'd look at me and I was like like a stiff I'm so Finn and they relate yet alright and then I throw with tackle him and they'd be like you're out of akshay that's almost a bit like Katie Taylor she's played football for Ireland and Dan of season has gone on the gratings in the boxing yeah we've shared the same bullaiah be in case you say you let might man is hey grunts brother no way yes makes no sense them I mean they run the funding yeah that's why whenever loom whenever the comebacks well when I go to Ireland I always like back in the motherland my family's from Bray and Whistler yeah no no am I was being and funny story is when I started boxing I went into me gym and my boxing coach was at England coach at the time and he came over with a camcorder and he's like watch they scaled this is you want to fight light so I based my boxing style on Casey sailing and then and it was madness like ten years lycée no 12 years lycée I was sucked there watch near headline the meam it was amazing she's the first woman box transpose boards which is like such a feat that she's yet you don't remember when she came there was like a pro box and cards in the free mean I think it was and she boxed on it as an homage like way way way back in the day and I was just like this game and when I'm in fight come I watched a documentary about three times a week I never like wait for ways have you seen one believable yeah she's the greatest sports or sports I need of all time regardless of gender only just because there's no controversy with Fey she's pure to the to the core she's pure over me and she represents islands then for everything for being for being holy for being true for being honest I'm four sons and a few models life and her mom was doing the prayers she's like like please give please God give Katie the parents not this girl Oh tomorrow I was like oh my god we wrap things up I just want to ask money money you should definitely try and get someone to do a fly in a while store for you as well in the bill to you next void or also be BT sports have been following me since the win in London and you will you'll see the heart I'm still on this uh-huh no aim now they followed so you'll see everything over the last 14 months mmm so you'll see the next fight compass well I've kept like video videos and like just like personal blog thing which are just sends him so they can go on well you know what la yeah actually deserve only the best we wish you all very very best time so much fun on the show for those of you watching at home in your isolation like share subscribe and you want to say anything before you want to go if the UFC comes to Ireland in August I'll be on a horn the result I like for if not I will see you in October Bellator because I yeah I've got to watch clearly walk out again have you seen the video that was on Twitter arena are you a one I was fighting see weekly set and everyone was like she drunk I was like no I'm just high on Irish life was like that we could be as Molly back on so I'm Molly thanks a million as always stay energized be energized