GEMMA AULD Full Post Fight Interview | PFL Belfast

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The post fight interview from the entire press corps, Gemma Auld secured the win over Sammy Jo-Luxton via rear naked choke moving up to 2-0. Gemma opens up about how combat sports can help with young peoples growth and development. Don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe…

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Go back. I know everyone say that, but to be honest, my last one I had a few tests, too, cuz I've done a few submissions, but like that's the first time probably in a fight that I've felt like striking like that. So, yeah, it was good just to be honest to see that I can like I can take like hard shots like that from a good striker and carry on. And to be honest, like my technique is not always the best, but I've always got the grit and that was like a real test of that. So, I know like once I started wrestling, I knew that I could get get like the win as long as I just persevered through the strike. And so, yeah, it was like not the first test I've had, but certainly like a different one. To be honest, in the past, my hardest fights have always been people with the same strength like as me. So, it was good for a we change to have someone that was the opposite. Yes. What's the biggest difference you feel right now in your life since you signed with to be honest like signed with PSL from my debut? So it's like I changed to it just being something I was kind of trying out for fun to like it's like a job now which is that sounds boring but it's actually a good thing for me. It's like whenever I'm getting overwhelmed thinking about it I just remind myself like this is a way for me to make training like my job and and not have to be like working myself to every day teaching like 5 days a week and then going at night to train. like if I can make it more balanced between the two cuz I still love teaching. Obviously, I don't want to stop doing that either, but it just kind of they've given me an opportunity to make this like part of my like life and not just something that's like an add-on to everything else that needs done. Do you know what I mean? So, yeah, I'm so grateful for that opportunity because to be honest, I never in about years thought I'd be doing this for a job. So, yeah. Congratulations on my job when you return. See, see to be honest in that first round I got hit in the nose quite bad and I thought this is going to look terrible on Monday and now the lips even worse but no I'm actually so buzzing to see the kids like one of the things I've reminded myself like the whole time when I get a bit overwhelmed sometimes thinking about so for me the fight is the bit that I enjoy the rest of all the hype and the buildup I really find that a bit hard and I just kept reminding myself like there's like very many people in my class and the rest of school that are just buzzing for me to come back on Monday. They do not give a story. They don't care whether I win or lose or what happens. Like they're just buzzing to see me. And so like when I go in Monday, it will just bring me back down to earth like after my last win went in and I just felt kind of normal again after going in. So I'm really actually excited for that which sounds a bit sad but it's true. So obviously your career was so fast your first seven fights in 14 months. It's been seven months since you fought. How did you find that time for the first time since [Music] you know what it was actually pretty difficult for me like I found it it felt really like start over again coming in but the only kind of saving grace was I thought I might be fighting in December and then March so there was like periods where I thought I had a fight coming up but no like that's a good question because that was something that I found quite difficult cuz that's actually longer like a longer period of time than all my amateur fights like happened or something I think. So, it's yeah, it's pretty different, but it was good cuz I'm at a new team and needed time to prepare and all the rest. So, it's been good. And actually, to be honest, just a bit of time to have a break and have a bit of a life has been great. So, yeah. No, it's just different and it's just a new kind of challenge for me, which is good. So, yeah, thanks so much. Thank you. I'd love to say listen to my corner but I didn't do that much listen. I was trying so hard I just kept doing everything that they never said. But it was one like I realized that she was getting up to a point but not all the way up and I just wasn't I was just not thinking straight enough to do the right thing. But for me, I find although I've had some first round finishes, it takes me a bit of time to kind of settle the adrenaline and start to think clearly. So, it was just really getting to that point for me and realizing I needed to break her down further and just keep at it and that's what I did and it worked. So, I just knew as soon as I got her completely down, I couldn't let her get up again because her defense was very good. So, yeah, respect to Sammy Jo did a great job of stopping that which was great. Two things in the GFL, two finishes. Did that just come naturally or do you go before the fact that I think based on like my style finishing works for me cuz I've been taking more of this it wouldn't have been ideal. I think for me it's just my style tends to like lead to that. I'm more of a grappler really than a striker and you just tend to get more finishes in that sense. But I think the longer rounds work for me in that respect as well. It gives me a bit of time to work on the ground and stuff. So obviously I really wanted to finish but I would have been happier. Yeah. [Music] H it's certainly not easy. It's difficult, but I've been quite lucky in the way that my fights have fallen that I've not really had to take much time off. That's actually the first time I've ever had to take time off my work for a fight. I don't work on a Friday now. So when it was in the hydro, I just worked right up till the Thursday. But this time I was lucky enough to get a bit of time off. My boss was really great with that. And she knows I'm not asking all the time. I mean when I was amateur I was having mornings off. you get a bit of time out your class anyway. Mine was a Friday. I was weighing in and going straight into work and stuff. So, they know I've like it works both ways and they know that if I did need to take time off, I would ad. But it it is a difficult thing to balance. But for me, I was I think sometimes you forget. I was a teacher first. So, I fed fighting in around that and I've just made it work just like everyone else like makes it work around whatever they're doing. So, yeah. Thanks so much. [Music] Thursday. What pleases you most about your performance? To be honest, I'm not that happy with my performance. Really, there's a lot of things I was working on in striking that I didn't do there. But it will give me something to go on because it's all very well working something when you're not under pressure. But it shows that what I need to work on is being under that pressure and doing like um what I've been doing in training under that pressure. So it's given me something else to progress from. But certainly the buzz from the hydro I I felt was replicated there in and the pound in Belfast were great. So yeah, it was something else. Work on moving my head. Stop taking so many punches and kicks will probably be my next move. It's always been the same after every fight. So see yeah cheers. Thank you so much everyone. But yeah, just one one quick question for you. All right, so uh first of all, congratulations and um you're a teacher and a big thing for me is trying to get young people into combat sports. Uh the biggest thing that I've always heard from parents is they don't want their kids fighting. As a teacher, an educator, how do you feel combat sports fits into uh kids growing and developing? Yeah, that's a great question to be honest. Um, I would say like I've worked in the same school for quite a while, like 8 years. Um, and I've actually worked there since I started training from the very very first day I stepped in a a tie gym and they've seen like the progress like some of the kids have been there that whole time and I think for them they've started to realize including like work in the same community. The parents and kids are kind of realizing it's not just about fighting, it's like a discipline and and all that. I think they they're starting to see that through what I'm doing. And also like I've got a lot of respect for the kids. They think fighting like cool and they respect people that can fight. So if there is any situation where they might be fighting, they'll listen to me to to talk about it. And in turn, I'll I'll kind of teach them about going and doing martial arts and how that leads to discipline that gets them out of bother in the streets. And for me, that's a really important thing, especially in the area I'm in. So I'm always trying to encourage them to do that. And we've had some like local judo clubs and stuff coming in and taking the kids to do workshops and things and offering them free sessions and things which have been great. So I do think martial arts for kids is really coming through and if I can do anything to help that then that's a a great win for me. Can I just do one follow-up question? How would you get more younger women involved? Sorry I couldn't hear you. What would you do to get more younger women involved? To be honest like in my school there is quite a lot of young girls who are doing the kickboxing and things. So I think just more exposure of people like me or Savvi do or any other girls like when we had the tournament last year just kind of seeing like normal girls doing it like is something that kind of makes them realize that it's an option and just exposing them to it I think is important. So yeah, just keeping on getting women in martial arts and in the media and maybe like other schools have like exposure to that kind of thing I think would be great. Excellent. Thank you. Thank you so much. [Music]