The audience at UFC London wasn’t alone in their shock when Molly McCann delivered a historic spinning elbow knockout. McCann herself, who flatlined opponent Luana Carolina in the third round of their fight, was amazed at her own fighting prowess, telling The MMA Hour that it was one of the greatest moments of her life.
“My mom and my dad’s wedding, that’s up there, and that moment for me. I was saying to the media team and everyone, ‘I may never get that again.’ I might never get a knockout like that again, I don’t think. Women or men don’t really get them.
“Meatball” Molly McCann: UFC London Knockout “changed my life forever”
I don’t even, I can’t even now, I’m floating, I’m so at peace because this is the moment I’ve been waiting for. I’ve had battles with my own mind and I’ve battled against them and everyone could just see how calm I was last week and it was just time. It was just my time.”
McCann was a crowd favorite heading into the O2 Arena in London this Saturday night, but she emerged with a place in every fight fan’s heart after such a show-stopping performance. “Did you see my face? I went ‘whooooooaaaaah.’
It’s something that when you chase a submission or you chase a finish, they don’t come. When you’re loose and you’re sharp, they come. And when I’m not tense. I’ve only knocked one person down I think in the UFC and that was Ariane Lipski, but when I done that it was like a sharp backhand and I didn’t load up.
That elbow, I just looked to the side and I just gave a glance up and I thought, ‘Is it on? Is it on,’ just keep going, look, go, boom. There was no pause or tense. It was just go.
I didn’t put power into it, it was just 100 percent commit to it and I’m never, ever gonna stop thinking about that moment where the referee had to push me out of the way. I wasn’t gonna go back in because I could see she was out but you pray for them moments.
Like, a Mark Hunt step-over. You pray for them and what really blew me away was when [UFC President Dana White] said, ‘I don’t think you’ll ever see a better knockout from a female ever again.’
That doesn’t happen. Those kinds of finishes don’t happen. But I think I just took that much out of her gas tank with the body shots, the non-stop pressure, the pressure of the occasion, I think she will be mentally trained before getting in there because listen, every single person was screaming for me when I got in there. It must have been really intimidating.”
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