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Molly McCann shocked the London crowd on Saturday when she scored a huge knockout over Luana Carolina on the main card of UFC London. The Liverpool native landed a huge spinning elbow to completely knock her opponent out cold.
It was Mark Hunt-like moment for Molly McCann as she was able to land the huge knockout and simply walk away from Luana Carolina. It wasn't lost on her after UFC London that she may never get a knockout like that again.
“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,” UFC flyweight McCann told Ariel Helwani during Monday’s episode of The MMA Hour.
“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.”
Molly McCann is not known for getting knockouts in the UFC. She has struggled to find the finishes in the promotion and was happy to finally get it down in deadly fashion at UFC London.
“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,” she explained.
“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.
