Cage Fighting Women Storyville

This programme contains strong language and some violent scenes

Beautiful, you look great. Nice.

Nice. Nice.

I can't do you justice, you're so beautiful.

Ultimately, people want to see you brawl.

They want to see people slugging away and bleeding and...

They want to see, they want to live through us and feel barbaric

through the fighters in the cage.

Once this gate closes and is locked,

you have nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.

You can only move around,

and if you go up against the cage you can't get away.

So you have to know how to defend yourself inside here

under the rules of mixed martial arts.

No head-butts, no eye gouging, no biting, no groin shots,

but a lot of other really cool things, including punches,

knees, elbows, jump kicks, flying knees. Take down, single leg,

dump somebody down, get on top and pound them.

They can flip you over, you can get arm barred, choked, leg-locked.

So many things can happen inside the cage once that gate closes.

There's not one person that can say, "No, I don't like girl fights".

It's better than guys. I mean, you see guy fights all the time.

Finish her! Finish her! Finish her now!

Girl fights, it's something different.

You spend your whole life ordering the same thing off the menu,

and then one day, it's like,

I'm going to try something different!

That's what girl fights are, something different.

I broke her nose, I might throw that in there!

So that's nice she beat me and I broke her nose! It's a fair trade.

It's the best feeling ever, absolutely.

I mean, you walk into a ring cage, going on there, you know,

soon as they say, "Fight!" Whoa, straight in there.

It really is the best feeling, the biggest buzz you could ever get.

Nice, that looks great.

Another five seconds four, three, two, one... freeze.

I studied for a Math's degree at Cambridge University,

went on to do a PhD in theoretical computer science in Manchester,

and then I decided I wanted to fight for a bit, so here I am.

I love fighting. When it's going well,

there's no feeling like it in the world.

Now! Hit her! Oh! Oh! Oh! And again!

Keep position! Hammer! Oh! Oh! Oh! Hit her, Rosi!

Today's the big day. We're going to erect the cage,

it's going to be brilliant. Lenny's worked really hard on it.

It's a substantial piece of kit, weighs a ton, that's why we've got

Big Dave to give us a hand and a couple of other lads.

I love the size of this gate, 'cos if there's any injuries

you can get the paramedics in, the stretcher bearers.

Len's never seen a cage. He's made it just from

my sort of artist's impression, which ain't right good!

Do you know what I mean? It's good. And wife will be pleased.

Some people buy 'em diamonds, necklaces and stuff like that.

I've got her a cage. Not many blokes can say that!

I've known Lisa for about 18 years.

We've been together 14 years. She always had the drive.

She were in the gym five, six times a week,

where guys would do once or twice a week.

She stuck with it, and she were the only female in there.

The natural things that Lisa's got, her mind, she's very strong minded.

She's got very, very quick reflexes, and a natural ability to fight.

A lot of people say that Lisa, pound for pound,

is the best fighter in the world.

Yeah, I mean I was about 16

and going for a job interview

and just going through Leeds Market,

and just got grabbed.

Meant that... I got away and...

and just thought, you know...

I went home, had a bit of a, bit of a cry, what have ya,

sorted meself out and thought, do you know what,

I really need to... know what to do,

I need to...

I can't just...

You know, I need to be able to look after myself.

I have to do something physical, because it was a physical attack.

It needs to be something...

..fight based, really,

'cos that's what I'm doing, fighting back, really.

At the moment Lisa's not speaking to me much at all.

She's getting herself into the zone ready to fight,

and anybody who coaches and trains their wife will tell you the same.

It's not all lovey-dovey.

I absolutely adore her, love her to bits.

And at the moment I think she might possibly like me

under different circumstances.

We can have some fall outs during training, definitely.

But, usually speaking, at end of day in gym I'm the boss.

At home, Lisa's the boss.

I've been at it longer, got a lot of fight experience meself.

I'm not just stood there glory hunting for John Higo.

I'm there to make everything right for Lisa.

And Lisa is the most dedicated fighter

I've ever had the pleasure to work with.

Mum's going to a different country.

Wait, I think I know which country it was. France.

Yeah, she's going to France and we're staying at Nana's

and she's having a fight in France.

She's had more fights than she did a couple of years back.

She's only lost one fight and she's won loads, really.

What if Mum gets knocked out?

We'd be quite sad about that, wouldn't we?

Tell me how much you know about this girl in France?

Fatima? She knows her stuff.

You don't get to become European Champion by being rubbish.

She's French-Moroccan. Usually, the French-Moroccans can fight.

They are scrappers, a bit fiery.

They're not afraid, out of the foreigners, of taking a liberty.

They're not. It goes with the culture, I think.

It's in the Latin blood.

They're not like us Anglo-Saxon people,

all sort of stand up, fair people.

It's amazing, innit? I'm here rubbing a woman down

that can't stand me at the moment!

Don't want to be mum when I'm about to step into a ring.

I need to drop them off

and switch into a different mindset, really.

SHOUTING AND CHEERING

-Hello.

-I've only brought one.

-What's up with other fella?

-Oh, he's here!

-He's here!

I was so upset when I saw your eye last time.

I didn't like that at all.

I really didn't.

I'm not up for it at all, no matter what you're getting for it.

If you was getting a lot of money for it I could understand it then,

probably think, oh, the money's drawing you into it.

You two are going really bonkers.

I don't honestly think it does you good getting blows to the head.

You've nothing to worry about.

I love her, and if I see her in trouble in a fight,

the towel's going straight in, followed by me.

-Guys give me a kiss, I'm off.

-No!

-Kiss!

-Love you.

I love you, too.

-I'll give ya a ring.

-See you later.

-Right.

How do you do? Cheers.

-Fatima.

-Yeah, fine.

SHE SPEAKS FRENCH

She was twice French champion,

professional champion.

HE SPEAKS FRENCH

Two times our gold medal winner of the European Championship.

When you first sort of see her,

you know, in the flesh, as it were, yeah, you start having a look.

Look at her arms, look at her legs, look at her abs.

In the ring tomorrow is somewhere I need to kick the shit out of her!

I want her to know the physicality of fucking with us, OK?

Let's fucking spoil their night, fucking sour their wine.

That's what we're going to do. We hate the fucking French, OK?

We fucking hate the bastards.

Slaughter.

Yeah? Get focused.

We do things that no other fuckers do that's why we are the best.

There's probably a load of rigmarole and messing about,

fucking anthems and shit, and all that, right?

Just zone out, yeah?

FRENCH NATIONAL ANTHEM

CHEERING

OK, Lisa, you know what to do.

OK, Lise, box her frigging head off!

That's it, tear her up, rough her up! Take her into the trenches!

Right, tighten your knuckle! She's gun-shy, she's gun-shy!

Chase her! Look at her, she's fucked!

Lisa, she's running all the time.

Stalk her, Lisa, stalk her, break her heart.

APPLAUSE

All you've got to do is get that big shot through and she will wilt,

she will wilt. Turn round, go do what I say!

Step in! Get that fucking jab!

Excuse me, thank you. Excuse me.

Me face says it all. I've been walking around on fucking eggshells

for fucking two months with her. Putting up with all kinds of shit,

been working my arse off, rearranging everything in my

fucking life to get her here,

she could have won that fight, and she fucking give it away!

That does my head in! She gets beat, she gets beat, she gave it away!

The girl was running scared! We knew that the French people

would take liberties to gain an advantage.

There were no way that that fight would go nine rounds,

but she had to keep on grabbing hold of her fucking leg!

Throw it, don't hold her leg!

Do not get hold of that leg again. Go out here and throw some kicks.

Do not grab that leg again, you're finished, do you understand?

I don't fucking care! Don't do it again!

CHEERING

You're going to blow this!

That girl is not in her class, and she threw the fight away.

All we had to do... Did the French girl get any fucking points deducted

for kicking Lisa in the bleedin' fanny? No, did she fuck!

CHEERING

Own fault!

MC SPEAKS IN FRENCH

APPLAUSE

I'm more upset for him.

He... he puts up with a lot just so that I can do this.

And then... just let him down.

'Too fucking annoyed, Lise. You give 'em their excuse.'

-'John, I didn't do it purposely.'

-'You did it though, didn't ya?

'You didn't do a single thing... Don't fucking argue with me about it.

'You didn't do a single thing that I fucking asked,

'not a single thing. Your boxing was atrocious.

'We knew we were playing away from home, and your boxing fucking stunk.

'You looked like some fucking coke head from fucking York.

'It stinks. And you want to go in the cage in America?

'You're going to get fucking slaughtered

'unless you fucking frame up.'

Hips in. Good, down.

Hips in, come on!

Hips, hips, hips, hips!

Do not give it up. Yes!

Fucking excellent!

I'm not sure about the technique but it went up!

You pick her up like that, I don't give a fuck what it looks like.

As soon as I get word there's a fight coming up,

the world looks different. Suddenly its got meaning,

because you're going to be out there in front of thousands of people

with somebody trying to take your head off. So... that...

focuses the mind.

You never feel quite as alive as you do when you're in the ring.

This is my fight with Wendy, a lot of shouting and screaming going on.

I went for a take down, and basically the way we twisted

I accidentally broke her leg.

She's fought twice since, though.

It wasn't career ending, which I'm extremely happy about.

People get knocked out, people get choked unconscious,

people do get their arms broken.

MMA is basically a combination

of all the true combat sports. If I'm out of this range,

I've got all me punching tools.

Long reach striking. I can kick to the legs, inside and outside,

to the body, and the head, which I'm far too old for.

You move in a bit closer, you've close range punches,

also your elbows, take downs take Anna down like this,

go straight into ground and pound, and can drop the body and arm.

You want to get this force into a shot.

A heel hook, take the hand back, the elbow in, elbow on top.

By the time she feels any pain here, the knee can be completely out.

The blood choke is probably the most efficient way to finish a fight.

Just push into this, breathe in and she's going to go to sleep.

She did a lot of music. She achieved grade seven cello,

grade eight piano and then she went on and did a diploma in piano.

And she played with the Reading Youth Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall.

She was offered a place at Trinity College Cambridge to read Maths.

Nothing pleased her more,

especially since the school suggested she was a bit ambitious in applying.

Her PhD graduation at Manchester...

consistent theme that runs through Rosi's life is winning.

I mean, Rosi obviously has a need to win.

A physics teacher has commented, "Rosemary has a meticulous approach

to her studies and nothing short of perfection satisfies her."

She ends by saying, "I wish her happiness in her future studies."

It's interesting that she should say that, because probably

happiness is something that can be difficult to attain with

a person who is seeking perfection, because the very fact that you're

seeking perfection means that you never achieve it,

and so therefore you can never be completely happy, doesn't it?

Come on, middle of the dot, every one accurate,

get your fucking hands up. This girl's bigger than you,

she's going to come out down the middle every time. Are you ready?

Look at me like you're ready, you want to go out there

you're going to enjoy it.

Yeah? Fight.

Time. Corners. Stop feeling fucking sorry for yourself.

Get your hands up, get in, what was all the stand up for?

I want you to switch from striking to grappling,

from clinch into some double leg, single leg, give that up,

-go to strike it. Get on with it.

-I can't do it.

-I haven't done all

this work for three months for you to feel sorry for yourself.

Get in there! When you're ready...

Now you're cooking. That's the machine, Rosi, that you are

It takes two rounds for you to wake up. Ha, there you go!

There's your shots, kid. Time.

Whatever's coming at you now you've gotta deal with.

You do this every time, "Oh, I'm not good enough, whatever".

Yes? Look at me like you fucking...

like you're listening to me, like you believe in me, OK?

Cos I need to go in there knowing you can do it as well, right? Yes?

Hates me right now.

She hates me right now.

Let's skate, then!

CHILD CRYING

CHILD LAUGHING

On the one hand people look at us and say,

"It's great you understand each other,

"you've got a shared interest", and that's true to a degree.

I think trying to have a relationship with somebody

who doesn't understand that, has its own difficulties.

But when you've got two people who are both passionate about

what they do, and dedicated to what they do and focused on what they do,

I think that makes it very, very hard.

And sometimes when I fight, I do feel that you've got

the weight of two people's hopes, dreams, ambitions, expectations...

..on your shoulders.

And... I definitely felt that before my last fight.

I mean, Karl's always says the right things.

It's, "Yeah, you're doing it for you, it's not about me".

He makes the right noises.

So we both know that it's a lie. It's a necessary lie,

but it's a lie just the same and there is that pressure there.

This is probably the most important fight of my career right now.

It's on a big show with a lot of people watching, a very tough fight.

Rosi is not an easy opponent. I haven't fought in two years.

I tried to get a warm up fight and I couldn't get anyone to fight me,

so have to step up to, I think, one of the best fighters in the world.

I definitely think that I can beat her.

I'm very prepared,

whether the fight goes on the ground, standing, clinch, wherever.

I'm a complete fighter, so I'm totally prepared to fight.

I'm into clothes and shoes,

that's my other passion, is clothes, besides fighting!

I'm not a girl in the ring. When I fight, I fight like a man.

But outside of the ring, I'm a girl. Being girly in the ring's a weakness.

If I was in the ring, in the cage, and afraid to get hit, weak and meek,

that's a weakness,

but I don't think outside of the ring being girly is a weakness.

Attack my leg, attack my leg, Go! Go, go, go, go! Yeah, good!

Go, go, go!

Yeah, yeah! Good! Go! Yeah, go hard, go!

Yeah, right, go! Yeah go, go, go, go!

Time. Good.

I'm confident, I feel good. I feel better right now than

I ever felt in my entire life.

I think I'm going to knock her out in the first round.

That's what I think, I hope.

That's the best situation. I'm training for a war!

Everybody's excited to see the British girl.

We're all used to seeing the Royals, You know? It's going to be insane.

The security's going to have an interesting job tonight,

cos people do get kind of enthusiastic.

I'm glad I'm up here and not down there! Like jumping in a shark tank!

Debi Purcell versus Rosi Sexton, to me, it's a beautiful dynamic

between a woman who's come through academia and then Debi Purcell,

who's an absolute showwoman and a great fighter in her own right.

I think that women's fighting, like women's tennis, women's golf,

women's gymnastics, it should be accepted.

Obviously I'm thinking about the fight, what if this happens,

what if that happens, running through game plans in my mind.

Winning just gives the sense just for a few minutes of just everything

being all right with the Universe.

I remember I was dropped from my primary school netball team,

apparently because I wasn't aggressive enough,

which I find quite funny now!

I'm excited.

I'm a little nervous but I'm more excited than nervous, which is cool.

-You ready?

-I'm so ready.

Nobody gets a free path in life,

you're going to have ups and downs. It's weird, my mom retired and went

to Costa Rica at a very early age, and I was a teenager at the time,

and I was pissed because my parents sold everything when they moved.

I was like, "What? You can't just leave and do that". And she did,

an amazing woman. When she got diagnosed with brain cancer,

and they gave her six months to live, she was so happy she did her dream.

And that's the biggest lesson that I've learned, it's like I just...

I want to do my dream. That's it.

This sounds strange,

but I think there's a sense that the other things I did,

Maths, music, whatever, just weren't quite hard enough,

didn't involve enough different aspects of me.

Fighting stresses other aspects of me that those other things didn't.

I think going back to when I was a kid,

it wasn't so much the shyness, it was being afraid...

and just being, being afraid of people.

If I get really, really good at everything,

then people will like me. I think the thing that I've got out

of fighting though is that I've learnt a lot of things about myself.

It's enabled me to look at all these parts of myself and even

just to be able to say what I'm saying now.

I think the experiences I've had have really helped with that,

cos it's given me an insight into how I tick.

OK. great.

Look toward these cameras, toward the camera.

Women's MMA is definitely going to be as big or bigger than men's.

Two hot women out there fighting, there's just, there's nothing better.

-Come on!

-Finish him!

CHEERING

We like to see some people like that beat the shit out of other people.

It's exciting, you never know what's going to happen.

Or who's going to whip each other's ass.

Most of it's boring until somebody explodes.

It's kind of addicting.

We just saw a guy get kicked in the head and dropped to the ground,

he got back up and he's still in the fight.

He's not doing too well right now though!

-We haven't seen women fight.

-That's going to be pretty awesome.

Move inside, now, now you've got that look, now you've got it.

That's what we've been waiting for all fucking day.

No... oh yes, not too much now, baby.

Come on, you've found it, you've just slipped through that window,

yes, oh right there, you should have been on it.

You've just slipped through that porthole into fucking killer. Yes!

Three minutes.

-Yeah, baby.

-This is where we make it, it's going to end. Yeah, dude.

She's emotional, she's going to come out, if you start spoiling her

she's going to get more emotional, OK, I'm a big...

look how she's built, straight down the line, make her,

make her feel a bit bad and she's just going to go down the fucking

big hole that you dig for her, yeah?

On your toes, baby!

Right down the line, hey, see ya later.

OK? Let's do it, huh? I love you.

HORN BLOWS

Off the cage!

Off the cage, good, use that whizzer, good whizzer.

Low ankle, hit in the face, inside, hit the face, open elbow,

there you go, close the wrist, close the fingers, pull her away

from the cage, level change, Rosi, she's tired, level change.

Take it to her, hard.

Lift the chin with that elbow,

close up now, double, double and single, she's tired,

go to her, she's tired. Ha! Yes and again, she's tired.

You've got 25 seconds, cook her, she's tired.

HORN BLOWS

Yeah, keep it up, hit her, oh, oh, oh, and again,

knee the face, knee in the face!

In, Rosi, this is yours, yeah and again, in, head movement,

hold her, punch her, hold her, kick her,

yes, get up, yes, hit her!

You've got it, yes!

APPLAUSE

Put your hands up, stand up.

Put your hands up, what a round, smile!

Was that ours?

Put 'em up.

Come here, baby.

Look at me now. I'm with you all the way, huh? Think you got it?

-We'll see.

-You got it.

Clear by set decision,

from Manchester, England, Rosi Sexton.

You are a superstar.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Cos I saw so many openings and I just couldn't do it.

She was open the whole time, I should have finished her play.

I probably could, I know it.

Fucking pissed at myself.

So you going to have to put me through this shit again?

Looks like it.

What a fucking nightmare today, you've been a dragon all day.

All day it was, Oh, I never feel like this, fuck,

you remember next time you feel like that every single time.

-Yes, but...

-OK? Every time, 12 hours I've had of it.

-Yes, boss.

You fucked her up!

-Yeah.

-Did you hear me yell... the uppercut,

cos she kept putting her head down, you fucked her up, good job, girl!

-Keep it up.

-That was the best fight of the night right there.

Yeah, I'd pay money for that one.

That little ones were wack. All right, guys, take it easy.

Hello!

Chinese, Japanese,

don't forget to wash your knees.

You're Chinese, you berk!

I've missed you, sweetie.

Hi there, then, you all right?

I hate losing, I hate losing.

Seriously not going to do that one again.

Are you still angry about that?

Is it showing? Yeah.

I remember getting side kicked about ten years ago and I went

down cos it really hurt, and I'm still angry about that.

I need Karl, you know, and Lisa needs Karl, and, you know,

he's absolutely fundamental to the game plan.

You start fighting them off like a teenage girl that's being silly.

TV COMMENTATOR SPEAKS IN FRENCH

It's the rules that beat ya.

Sport ship, looking for MMA, sweep, grab the legs, hit,

she needs to throw the kicking out, box, get a lower base,

move your head more and work on your grappling, then we've got a fight.

For your weight at 115 I haven't seen anyone hit that hard,

and fucking make a plan, stick to it and just work three or four things

and make them excellent, it's about getting your style right for MMA.

-Someone needs to take the lead...

-Yeah, and you've gotta do it.

..rather than you going, please one, please the other,

what pleases me is getting a good result, or getting a good fight.

I don't give a fuck about the results, as long as you go in there,

do your best and stand with some of the best women in the world, sweet.

Head down, hands up.

That's dirty, let's go.

Good. Now, if you feel an opportunity, Lisa,

to push you do it and then let go.

Chin down!

Oh, get 'em up, in!

Busy, busy, busy on that lead hand.

It's a great opportunity, there's going to be a lot

of female fighters there, it's a big event,

it's a good chance to make an impression,

but at the same time I've had lots of opportunities,

I know that I've had opportunities to do things in this sport

that many women haven't had, now it's Lisa's turn

and I'm really happy for her. It's good for her to get her name

out there, and for her to get the recognition she deserves.

'The Coliseum, Saturday, January 17th, as Hook and Shoe,

'Tap Out, and G5.tv bring you the largest gathering

'of women's mixed martial arts fighters in the world.'

CHEERING

We'll have all of you hold this, all the way across,

you might have to squeeze in.

Eight people will enter the ring that night,

they will be eliminated down to four, and then down to two.

Lisa Ligo, 115 exactly.

You have to defeat three human beings in one single night,

it's something that very few human beings

walking the face of this earth can say they've ever done.

You guys have all fought before,

so we're just going to run down the list, if you have any questions

just raise your hand and we'll address them, OK?

No butting with the head, no eye gouging, no biting,

no hair pulling, no fish hooking,

everybody understands what those are?

No groin attacks of any kind, no putting a finger into any orifice

or into any cut or laceration of the opponent.

No clawing or pinching or twisting of the flesh.

Just being here is an achievement. You don't know when your next

opportunity's going to come along, you've got to take it

when it's there, right in front of you and grasp it with both hands.

I think we've got Tammy Schneider in the first fight, who's a wrestler,

She'll be wanting to take it to the floor, cos we have a game plan for her.

We're going to box her head off.

You know, she's going to get some pain.

It's like a pack of wolves.

You've got your alpha bitch, like if I could beat you, I'm higher up now.

I've fought some of the best girls around, so one more girl doesn't mean nothing!

Just another nice girl just doing the same thing that I am.

Just starting to kick in, yeah?

Use that, it's there to help you, yeah?

-Yeah.

-You know. That adrenalin's there, it's on your side right now so use it, don't let it abuse you.

OK, let's go, all you, yeah?

Pick your shots. See you down there.

ANNOUNCER: Fighting out of England. Please welcome Lisa Higo.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Let's fight.

Go to the binding legs. Get the knee on now.

Oh! Nice...

Knee on body baby, come on. Oh.

Stop, stop, stop!

BELL RINGS

-I've got blood running down my top.

-It's all right, sweetie.

APPLAUSE

The winner in round number one, 49 seconds, TKO. Lisa Higo.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Heads down, she hit hard!

That's probably the, that's probably the hardest girl, the only girl I've ever fought that hit that hard!

I would say that girl's probably a little bit out of her...

that girl's pretty good.

This ice feels really good!

And how do you feel when you see Tammie get beaten like that?

I feel bad being as it's my wife, but she's watched me get beat like that, so...

SHOUTING

Angela Magana!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Lan Do!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Lacey Schuckman!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Lord we ask you to be Lacey's hands, her feet, her Jujitsu, her mind state,

we ask you to protect us all, we thank you and we're going to lift you on high, we're going to

give you all the glory tonight as we fight, and we win and we lose, all the glory goes to you, Lord.

I am 20 years old, I'm pretty sure I'm the youngest one

in the tournament, and I'm pretty used to always fighting women that are much older than me.

A lot of times when I first started I was fighting women that were 40 years old, you know, and they can fight,

they've got that mum strength that I always joke, they used to call me the old lady beater!

You ready? Let's fight.

BELL RINGS

I'm only capable to do this because God has given me the gifts he has.

I'm not in a wheelchair, I'm not, you know, sickly, I'm not bed ridden, and I get to go out there every day

and glorify God and give him all the praise for what I do.

For me to go in there and know that I have someone watching my back, I know that I won't get hurt.

It's totally why I do it and it just makes me feel so safe in there and, no matter what happens.

Hit her, hit her, and again!

Now hips in, hips! And hit, oh!

And again, now up again, stand up. She's cooked, she's cooked.

Go in now, come on, Lisa, hit her. Oh!

Oh, and again! Hit... posture, posture...

Lisa. Listen to me, clear the hand off, work that, come on, we're there, the side hand, Lisa.

Step up, step up, good and again. Cross face.

BELL RINGS

Time!

APPLAUSE

All three judges scored the bout 30-27 for a unanimous decision for your winner, Lisa Higo.

OK, I'm going to say it one more time, right?

It's not a fucking performance till it's over, we've agreed on that.

You've got one more fight. Don't get cocky. I don't work with cocky fighters. Now let's go, come on.

Hey? That's it done now, beautiful shots, right?

Keep your fucking hands up, smartarse. Clean her elbows, John!

That was more like a man out there than a woman with that class, but she was tough, she was strong...

Yeah, she was very tough, and I give her all the credit in the world. She does great training so...

I hope to see her go far. I hope to see her go all the way and take that belt.

BELL RINGS

The winner in one minute 48 seconds, Angela Magana!

Angela Magana, she looks great.

Very skilled, very determined and very confident,

not afraid to stand up and throw.

This is very personal for these two women.

Win or lose for either one of them, someone's going to go home very unhappy.

I'd like to knock her out, I'd like to...

I know I have the power, I don't give up.

I don't ever give up because winning's not always about the actual winning, it's about never

stop trying, die trying, that's me, I'll die trying.

I guess you could say it might be, people would think it

would be typical that I would have grown up to be a fighter, from the circumstances that I was in.

My mum and dad were both heroin addicts.

I was born addicted to heroin. She then tried to be a mother and a heroin addict at the same time.

I've been grazed with the bullet that shot my mother in the neck

at the age of, I think I was three or four, I still remember it.

Mother was so high that she didn't even know she was shot.

You know, I hope my mum is up there looking down on me seeing

what I'm doing cos the last thing she knew, I wanted to be a doctor.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Stay safe. I want you to get in the pocket a bit more. She's fucked. Look at her. She can't stand, right?

You need to go two inches more in and let your long shots go, yeah?

-You got me? Can you do it?

-Yeah.

-Well, come on then. Let's see it, yeah?

-Box and take her down, OK?

It's your game after that, you understand?

OK, drink.

Angle, every time, yeah? Show you're ready, she's fucked. Let's go.

Come on, Lis, on your toes.

Come on, we came to fight, let's go!

Take that off there, John.

Fight.

Good knee there in the guts. Hit, hit, hit. Oh!

And hit her. Now on her, Lis, pressure.

She don't want to be in here.

This is your round, right hand, step to your right, Lis,

right hand, every time she lifts her leg, every time, baby, come on.

Stand her up, stand her up.

Hit her, Lisa sprawl your legs out, sprawl, sprawl back, Lis, push her head down.

BELL RINGS

30-27 and 30-28, for your winner and G Fight champion, Lisa Higo.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Tonight, Lisa joins a very elite club of two other women

who defeated three women in one night,

I'm going to let them do the honours in presenting you this belt, your new champion, Lisa Higo.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

I couldn't fuck up like I did in France. I couldn't fuck up at all,

that was just shit, that was really shit, I had to,

you know, there were a little bit of, little bit of France in me today, got me a little bit...

"I'm not doing that again, I'm not doing that again." You know,

that loss helps, that loss helped me do something here today, you know.

Not just that but that,

it played a part,

it definitely played a part.

Now I know what I'm going to look like if I ever get lip injections!

It's fun man, I just had fun.

I'm winning in my head just by being here.

It didn't hurt when she hit me, nothing really dazed me but I have a really hard head, so...

Give us a kiss.

It's nice to see you, love, anyway,

all black eyed!

-You should have seen the others!

-Oh, yeah. You should see the others!

You know me. I bruise very easily anyway, so it's nothing, nothing too bad. Honestly, it's not.

Do you like that?

I think it weighs nearly as much as you.

Even though you're bruised, you look quite perky.

I'm so pleased you're home, so pleased you're home.

Don't go again, love!

Why can't you just quit while you're on top?

Just say, "That's it. I've done it now, let's retire."

When it's a thing that big somebody's going to want it back, aren't they?

Yeah, they didn't want it going out. At all.

I think it's very odd, I really do.

Or something too...

It's too butch,

you know, it really is, it's not feminine, is it?

I couldn't thump somebody if I tried, I couldn't, I couldn't hurt somebody.

I couldn't.

I don't know why you enjoy it so much. I don't understand it at all.

-I don't do it because I like hurting people.

-Well why do you do it?

Cos I'm testing my skills. It's all right saying you're doing it for self defence,

but how do I know that my self defence is going to work when I need it, if I don't test it?

-You don't have to keep doing it all the time!

-Well, I know, but it's a bit addictive.

Well, I don't think so, no.

Just stop.

There'll come a day when you'll just decide you've had enough, I hope,

and I hope you do it before you get hurt.

I haven't slept!

I'm tired.

Rosi, yeah look, you've got this fixation with the ankles right now, it's the least point...

I could grab his little toe, come on Rosi.

Knee away, knee away.

Knee away!

Knee away, slide the knee this way.

No, this way.

I'm going to say what I think and that's...

Yeah, I want, I want the information but at the moment it sounds like

this is what you do, you're doing everything wrong,

and I've been finding that very hard to deal with right now.

Let's just try and accept.

OK, so we're going to try and fix it again.

And then tomorrow and the next day.

Say, I'm OK, I'm willing to do it.

Yes.

OK, I'll try and think before I speak.

OK.

Shall we do this one then I disappear, I suppose. Is that it?

I think most people find it difficult

spending time with an ex partner, I think especially when that time is in such a high pressure environment,

under those conditions, it's erm...

it's not easy, it's not easy for anyone.

So he's become an ex partner?

Yeah.

Don't want to get too much into the relationship side of things, especially not right now.

And do you have to decide

whether you want results or...happiness?

I think if I didn't care about the results, then it would be easier to be happy.

Maybe, I don't know.

But the thing is if I didn't get the results I wouldn't be happy anyway, so...

I don't like losing.

I really don't like losing.

The fights don't come easy, and we don't get paid a fortune, you know.

Basically, it covers expenses, that's it, there's nowt left over.

It's a struggle, there's no dough.

Lisa is a real top class British athlete, yeah?

The Prime Minister doesn't know about her, the general public do not know about her.

There's no Olympic sponsored athlete that trains as hard

as Lisa, she's a top class athlete, admittedly in combat sports.

Someone runs round a track and gets made a Dame.

Lisa wins two world titles in the same night,

nobody really wants to know.

I don't think we'll be in the Queen's Honours and stuff like that, we probably won't get

Sportsman Of The Year, and really and truly, we deserve it.

Lisa Higo from Leeds Cage went over to America.

To me the best in the world at 115 pounds.

She went over there as a complete underdog, cos the Americans

always think anybody who's not an American can't win.

Yeah, it's true. And she came back G Fight World Champion. Big round of applause for Lisa.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

It does take me by surprise with what I've done,

and what I'm capable of.

It really is the best feeling, the biggest buzz you can ever get.

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