Rachel McGuigan | GladiatEire FC 1

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After securing a the win at GladiatEire FC, Rachel McGwigan — the only female fight on the card — sits down to talk about her journey, her performance, and her vision for the future. Don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more content!…

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[Music] Hey everyone, welcome back. Uh, Gladiator FC, uh, I have here Miss Rachel McGwigan. Is that correct? Yeah. Yeah. All right. Um, so let's get straight into it. Okay. Um, first of all, congratulations. Thank you. Um, did a great job. Uh it was the only female fight of the night. Um and you know you were able to secure that win. Um how does that feel in general? Feels good. Put all the hard work in and this is the result. Excellent. Um you know do you kind of plan ahead when it comes to these fights? Like do you kind of have a plan going into it or do you like to make it up as you go or what do you do? My coach kind of studies the other opponents and then put stuff together in the training implemented all in Was there anything in particular that you worked on this part? It was the clinching knee stuff like that. Okay. Um um clinching a knee in. Um so like she would always come in and like try and clinching knee hard to break off from that and stuff like that. Right on. Get get the unders spinning around if you're against Okay. Excellent. Excellent. Um so tell me about tonight's fight. You said this is your fourth fight. Fourth fight. Yeah. Fourth fight. Correct. Um, great. Um, so what was it like your first fight? You going in there and then the ref shuts the door and then it's time to perform. What was that like? It wasn't really all that like different. I've done a lot of fights before. I have like a lot of experience in kickboxing. So, excellent. All the nerves. It wasn't too bad. Uh, how long have you been kickboxing? It was my first sport. So, I've done that since I was like four. So, maybe like 12 years experience in kickboxing. Excellent. That's cool. Um, so tonight's fight, um, when you got your hand raised, what what did that feel like? Sorry, was it a decision? I don't It was a decision. Yeah. Okay. So, were you expecting it? Did you Did you Yeah, I feel like I did enough work in the fight to get the win. Yeah. So, uh, when when the ref raised her hands, how'd that feel? Very good. All the hard work paid off. Excellent. So, what um what was her name? Daniela. Did she do anything in the cage that like you weren't uh or that you were surprised by? No, I think I was prepared for everything. I think I was prepared for everything she kind of threw at me, but she was a great fighter, good opponent. Yeah. Um what's something you What is uh like something you you're taking away from it? Just the experience just to Okay. Um so like you been in, you know, quote unquote male ballet sport for most of your life. Yeah. Um, so then it must it wasn't much of a transition then into No, not really. No, because I've sparred obviously train with men majority my entire life. So it's not really a big difference. No. Okay. Um, how do you feel about you know or would you consider yourself like a bit of a role model for other women either, you know, young women or Yeah, maybe like younger ones in the gym maybe. Yeah. Yeah. Small ones in the gym. Yeah. Do do you help out in the gym? Do you teach or coach at all? Not really. Hey, I used to a long time ago help out with like kids class and stuff, but not really anymore. Just focusing on my own training. Right on. Um, what is it that uh, you know, you want to do next? Where do you want to where do you want to go in your fight career? I'd like to go to the very top. Yeah, but I have another fight here in 3 weeks on Akuma. So, yeah. Excellent. Who Who are you fighting then? I don't even know our names. It's not even here fighting the Oh, yeah. And you're Yeah. Okay. Excellent. Excellent. That's fantastic show. I'll probably see you there. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. So, career-wise for yourself, like you see yourself going pro? Yeah. Like to turn pro, getting a few more amateur fights, few more wins, and then turn pro. Yeah. Right on. So, you see yourself going like I said, straight to the top, the top promotion UFC potentially. Yeah, hopefully. Yeah, potentially. Yeah. Excellent. And I love the ambition there. Um, all right. Before we go, uh, can you would you be able to give a bit of advice to any women out there who are, you know, maybe interested in combat sports but don't really know where to start? You just need to you just need to start. That's the hardest part. Starting is start. It's not as intimidating. Yeah, it's not it's not bad. I didn't know. Everyone's friendly in the gyms. I mean, all the men, they're all friendly. Yeah, absolutely. It's not the uh it's nowhere near what you would expect. So, some of the nicest people I've ever met are in through the gym actually. Yes, 100%. And generally, kind of like the aggressive or rude ones, they get weeded out. Yeah. Um pretty easily and quickly. They don't last very long anyway. But yeah, all right. Look, congratulations. Thank you for your time. I I really appreciate it. And um Jack, all right. Thank you very much. Come back. Let's go.