Most of us wouldn’t complain about an extra $50K in our pocket, but Molly McCann’s emotional response to her Performance of the Night bonus was something to behold
In a recent interview with Ariel Helwani’s MMA Hour, Molly “Meatball” McCann opened up about her upbringing and how much it meant to her to pick up the bonus paycheck.
Molly McCann Ecstatic Over 50K Fight Bonus: “I Came From Nothing”
“I just come from nothing, so to win any kind of money is just next level. But I think for me, it was the recognition of my hard work. It wasn’t even so much the money, but I feel as if I could have been in a few fight of the nights before this one, and I was kind of picked off by the more well-known fighters on the card.
So for it to come full circle, I even had my manager, Graham Boylan, in the corner for this fight, it was just mad. It was like it was all meant to be.”
Those who wrote McCann off following a lacklustre performance at UFC Vegas 18 were in for a rude shock when McCann earned a dominant decision win on the weekend.
“I was like, I can’t give any more than I’m giving. I come to fight-fight, and I felt like that person I fought, Lara, just came just to hold on and not even try to finish me, literally just try to pin me to the floor or to the wall.
If you’re going to beat me, please try and submit me or finish me and put me away, don’t just stall. I had never come up against that kind of fight before.
In boxing, it’s like a stalemate, a bit of a journeyman, and I feel like that’s what she was, and I was not prepared for that, because people don’t fight like that in MMA.
So I just felt like I had been given a rough go of it in terms of drug cheats and just sh*t matchups, and I’ve never turned a fight down. I know, stylistically, I will face styles that don’t really suit mine. But it was just annoying, having that back to back.”
As for her own career goals, McCann was beaming with delight at being able to return home to Liverpool and buy a house. “I always said all I wanted from fighting was a world title and to have a house bought.
If you can say you’ve got a fully paid house and your mortgage is finished, then you’ve done quite well, haven’t you? To kind of fall into MMA kind of by accident and then to have an amazing career, it’s just mad.”
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