Andressa Souza | Artemis Fight Night 1 · Ireland news

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Andressa Souza | Artemis Fight Night 1 Andressa Souza returns to the ring for her second-ever bout at Artemis Fight Night, Belfast’s first all-female combat sports event. Coming off a quick turnaround from her debut just a month ago, Andressa opens up about dealing with nerves…

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Post-fight interview with Andressa Souza at Artemis Fight Night 1. She describes winning her second amateur bout after a turnaround of about one month from her debut, and contrasts the relaxed mindset of her first fight with the pressure she felt to win this time. She credits meditation, prayer, breathing work, running two or three times weekly, general training, and pool swimming for recovery, while noting she still gassed in the second round against a relentless opponent. Souza trains Muay Thai but accepted the booking after Mel invited her and Andrea encouraged her, following a cancelled all-female show she was booked for last year. She works in sales as a business development manager and says the gym helps her stay focused at work. She plans about fifty-five days of holiday in Brazil after back-to-back camps, expects more fight offers, and thanks Mel for organizing gear and the event, which the host praises as Ireland’s first all-female combat card.

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Go back. Let's go. >> Artemis fight night. We're here. Um, >> amazing. >> I have you. >> Amazing. Amazing. >> Miss Andresa >> Souza. >> Souza. >> Yeah, that's right. >> There you go. All right. Um, first of all, congratulations. >> Thank you so much. >> This is This was your second fight, correct? >> Yeah, second fight. I fought uh a month ago. >> A month. >> Yeah. >> That's quick turnaround. Yeah. >> Yeah. It was >> um So, just describe describe the night for me. What was it like for you? >> Oh, that was actually completely different. The feeling was >> completely different from my first fight. I think on my first fight I was like okay let's do it. It's my first fight so whatever comes I'm fine. And today I felt the pressure >> so I felt like you need to win. >> You need to bring home. >> What what did you >> Oh I start to feel so ner nervous. Oh my god. >> What what do you do to like outside of training to kind of help yourself you know with the victory? Like uh like do you do like visualization? Do you you know journal? What do you do? A little bit meditation. >> Okay. >> Yeah. I pray. >> Yeah. Good. >> Yeah. I try to do like some like I try to breathe >> and do Yeah. Like some exercise to chill. >> Right on. >> Yeah. But like actually trains make me feel relaxed. That's the like what I escaped from my journey every day. >> I work with sales. So I'm a business develop manager. So we work with a lot of pressure and you know target and all this and like train for me it's like escape and then relax. That's the moment for myself. >> Right on. Not not a whole lot tougher than uh uh there's not much tougher than you know practicing getting hit in the face or kicked in the face. >> Actually no I can tell for everyone who never fought before just come and fight because it's completely different. Like I I feel so much when I'm training when like my my colleagues are like you know sparring with me when I get like punches in the face or kicks we don't do like very hard sparring but when comes you don't have the adrenaline in your body so you feel everything and here you just go you feel a lot of like the nerves coming before the fight but then when you step to the ring you're just like in an animal style so you don't feel any pain you just go boom boom boom boom That's it. >> Um, so like what did you do? How did you prepare yourself uh for your fight? Like what were you Was there anything in particular you training wise? Um, so I tried to run at least two, three times a week. >> Right on. So no problem with cardio. >> No. No. >> And I was so tired on the second round. Oh my god. She was never stopping. Like never like she was coming coming. I was like a Yeah. No, the cardio is very important I think. And yeah no so I think run is very important and the other stuff as well like train and try you know >> right on um >> I do a little bit swimming I I I like to swim as well >> swim's fun swimming swimming is an underrated >> do some sound as well >> for recovery >> say swimming swimming is an underrated uh activity like in the sea or the pool >> it's so good yeah on the pool yeah on my gym >> right Um, so just tell us a little bit about like what it feel like to be a part of like this event tonight. You know, Ireland's uh first all female uh combat card. >> I'm so proud. Um when actually male got in touch and invited me for the show, I was so happy because I supposed to fight actually uh last year in a female show that never happened. >> Um so I was kind of disappointed when they cancelled the show. So when she came and Andrea said let's come and try and I was like but I train Muay Thai and she was like but yeah but you fight you fight like amateur so the rules it's very kind of similar I was like okay so let's do it so I start to train a little bit hard um and yeah like now we are seeing the result I won so I'm very happy >> absolutely yeah know your your hard work's definitely paid off >> um >> so you you say like you work in the corporate world like what what is it that you take from the gym, take from the mats and you bring into, you know, like your everyday life >> to be focused. >> Focused. >> Yeah, for sure. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Like when I have an objective, just go and move forward. So, you're like, let's go. Let's do it. >> Awesome. Awesome. >> Yeah. >> Good work. Sorry, I had to interrupt. I always >> That's my coach. Right on. Um, you know, so like what's what's next for you? What what are your what are your plans for the year? Next, what you know, rest of this year? >> I'm taking a holidays now. I'm going to Brazil. I will be there for maybe 55 days, something. >> 55 days. >> Yeah, I will be taking like some holidays to rest because I just came for two camps in a row and yeah, but I'm already getting invites for next show. So yeah, hopefully I get like another match. >> Awesome. >> I don't think I'll be stopping on the second fight. I think I will like be fighting. >> Awesome. That's great. Um well, here. Look, we we'll keep it at that. I know you got your your team over there. So, look, congratulations again. >> Thank you so much. Thank you so much for coming and support the show as well. That's amazing. It's it's what I love to do and uh I love >> I want to say thank you again to Mel for organizing this like the tops, the shorts and everything. It's such an amazing work and I'm very happy to be part of it. >> She did a great job for uh you know first time show like this like it's ran pretty well and uh you know I'm sure there's a lot behind the scenes that u you know probably making her pull her hair out but uh you know the show itself on today has been fantastic. So all right look I appreciate it. Um, and until next time. Okay. >> Thank you. >> All right. >> Byebye. Bye, guys. [Music]