MMA Fighting - The A-Side Live Chat with Molly McCann

Episode Date: April 15, 2020

For this episode, UFC flyweight Molly McCann joins José Youngs and Petesy Carroll to discuss some of the top story lines in the world of MMA. Some topics include the rumored UFC card on May 9, McCann's life during quarantine, the time she saved a woman from human trafficking, the origin of her name "Meatball," the MMA scene in Liverpool, and, of course, her dog Frank. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I didn't even know we were getting a cool intro. We have music, baby. We have music. We got a cool graphic. This is what happens during pandemic times. Casey and Esther put together fun music and intros for us on the Aiside Live chat. My name is, of course, Jose Young's. This is the Wednesday edition of the Aiside Live chat.

Joining us is, of course, Pizzi, Across the Pond, everyone's favorite mustache director, Casey Leiden, and joining us this week. Michael McCann also across the pond Molly how are you doing? I'm Frank. It's Frank right there. You want to focus for that? Yes, lad.

Amazing. He's so beautiful Molly. I don't know. I got lucky with this one, didn't I? Oh, God, I am some birds, aren't I? Whoa. It's a tan. I'd consider that a tan.

For me, that is 100% of tan. That's as tan as I get, to be honest. Can I say this? I went to Africa. volunteering a few years of them and the kids used to call me Abbe and it means the red one.

They used to run over to me and touch me and I change colour. That's amazing. But before we get into the questions, Molly, I'm sure all of our fans although the one question we asked all the fighters is how have you been dealing

with quarantine and pandemic times? I know you're supposed to fight on that UFC. London card that felt through. Since then, how have you been dealing with everything going on in the world? Well, I've just tried to take it and we strive to be honest me. We're all in the same boat, so there's no point being moaning about it and being negative aborted because you're just going to make the experience worse. So I've just tried to just, I don't know, live my best life and I really have.

Like, I've got no pressure on me of a fight. I can literally wake up. Run for an hour, come and train and my little black garden game and then play with the dog in the streets all day. And who's good to you? Well, you're spending quarantine times better than us.

I know, Pizza, you have a dog. Casey, he has a dog. I don't have a dog. So I am the odd man out this time. So I'm just a lonely man during this quarantine time. I mean, that's a good Tash, that. I mean, no, isn't it? Do you know, Casey,

that tashes were very fashionable in Liverpool for a long time. Am I right, Molly? Like, how does this compare? Yeah, so in the 80s, Casey, everyone would have a pornstash like that. And they'd have a perm as well.

And then the stereotype is when Scoutses get aggressive, we go, can't talk, can't, so everyone used to take the piss out of us on Halloween and put like a big mustache

in that the pain and then go, can't down, can't down. I did feel the drag up Annie Bad, there. Oh yeah, whatever.

Not better am I? I'm wearing this Beatles T-shirt in honour of your debut, Molly, I'll be around here in the front. Look at that. It's very special.

I wear this Irish skin in honour of me being Irish. I think you're underselling your quarantine. You've been the queen of quarantine. You've been knocking out of the park, to be fair. I mean, I just still feel like I'm in Fikeham.

I just, I rang grey and boiling. I said, look, I'm 62 kilo, which is like 137. And I fight at 125, 125, 126. So I was like, look, I need four days to make weight, get me like on that first island or whichever island it may be, the green one or one and like the Bahamas, I don't care. Yeah.

Well, I'm sure we're going to get a million questions from our fans about fight Island because that seems to be the trends these last few weeks but of course Casey the man, the director, the mustache, and Hitchie Storyboy, do we have any questions? Do we have any questions lined up right out of the gate?

Yeah, one second. Let me get some. Let's start with this one. From Sean Denny, Danny Rance, a longtime commenter from across the pond, too. Hashty the A side. For Molly, how are you replicating the banter and slagging from a normal fight camp in your home workouts. That was a very UK sounding tweet.

I don't know what half those words even mean. How were you replicating the banter and slagging from a normal fight camp in your home workouts? Listen, it's on my own, so there's no slagging, there's no banter. But when I'm hitting the bag or when I'm running, I do talk to myself a bit. Come on, people! Come on, people! Yeah, I mean, there's not much. What's the word? Moral's high, but, you know, when you work with people,

you can train harder because it's down to, like, not wanting to lose. But I just feel like now training's more expressive way. I'm often to think more, and I'm going back to, when I, I don't know, I fight a lot more like my kind of philosophy. So I watch stuff. I watch the UFC every night on D-P, write some stuff down about what the fighters do and then go and do it on the bag and see if that works for me or not.

So today, I actually put on each kick a hundred times and a fourth. I'll see which one feels nice and then absolutely hammer it for the next six weeks. Wow. That's incredible, Molly. Like who is the chief slagger in Next Generation in Liverpool? Who would just say is the main person doling out the abuse? The biggest moaner I've ever met in my life is probably Paddy Pimbley. Yeah, he's a moaning or I don't know, yeah, definitely.

It's more fishy. Fishy is really positive, but between Paddy moaning about fishy or fishy moaning about Paddy. that's probably, yeah. They're all such good characters, though. Yeah, it's just, if you'd imagine they've all been coming up together for about 12 years, 10 years, I'm only seven with them.

So they love and hatred runs strong. Don't know what I mean? Yeah, man. Main Sparabarners are just so many years, I'd say, crazy. Because I can remember they were trying to flip off the belts. Remember, like, when Patty was Fedorway champion of Cage,

or Chris Fishgole was Lloyd, and then they were like, oh, maybe I'll get the featherweight one and you go for the lightweight one now. That's how insanely close they were. It was crazy. Yeah. And do you know why that was? It was who could make 66 and who couldn't.

And Paddy can cut better in the buff than anyone I've seen on this earth. So Paddy had to make the 66 cook, which nearly kills him a few times. So I think 70 suits Paddy better and I think 66 actually suit the issue better, to be honest. Yeah, that's really. Chris is, oh, look at that. Be careful with those things, Molly. Jesus. Frank, Frank, she can come for them.

We just went red. We taught you were dead for a second, Mom. Look at that. We have to do. Casey, mixed martial arts, future. Oh, yeah. We got to topic. We got six more months of quarantine.

We got, We got lots of days to do that. Oh, my good, gosh. He's so beautiful, isn't he? And Liverpool is the best place in the world. It really is. It's an incredible city. I can't get out.

I've only been it like once and I just couldn't get over how good it was. But you can actually understand where all these cool cats come from. When you're there, you're like, oh, everybody's like this. You know what I mean? It's insane. Yeah, but it's just like Ireland. Probably because like, I'd say 60% of our population. And like grandparents are all Irish.

Just because it's like 20 minutes. on the plane, isn't they? I can remember I was walking into, I was there with myself, obviously covering the fights, and I went into a pub, I was waiting for me playing to take off, went into a pub,

about six lads around me within 10 minutes of being there, just talking away. I ended up playing darts with them for a while and all. It was brilliant. Then they called one of their friends to bring me to the airport.

It was a taxi man. You didn't want to charge you, it was unbelievable. It was one of the best experience I ever had. It was great. Yeah. Oh, I love that.

Next time you come over. hopefully like a bell at all comes to him Liverpool because I heard they wanted to so I'll go on the ale with your after lad oh that sounds good that we have to get a documentary of that me and oh look at look at fessig Casey's dog oh Casey and Esther yeah yeah he's beautiful free is that what breed is he Casey huh oh she's a mutt just he's everything She's going to, oh, whoops, oh, she's hitting the keys. She is the director now.

It's a great moment. It's gone mad with all these dogs. And now it's like baby boom, but for fair babies. It's so funny. All the dogs are having the best time in the world during this quarantine. Now, remind the people, the dogs are out all the time. You see them. This is the greatest thing that's ever happened to dogs.

Yeah, when I walk Frank at 7 o'clock every night and everyone's just using their dog as an excuse. Like, people who've never walked their dog before. And I'm like rats, rats. Are you like me, are you getting angry with people as they walk towards you? I was just talking about this last week on the A-Said. I was like, if people aren't showing me a bit of space on the path or start making faces at them and shit, I'm like this. Don't really say anything. I'm just like, that kind of stuff.

No, I just It's normally, I'm running, so I just run around them and I'm like, I have me big headphones in and I'm like rapping as I'm going around the park and people are probably looking at me like, what's that? What is that? And I'm like,

do-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Do you know, like, and then I look at the watch and I'm like, oh, I'm on a seven-minute mile. Come on and then get more into it. I'm so oblivious. We better get some of these questions going. actually I keep on asking her on taking her off there. It wouldn't be the A side if we didn't get on a tangent after the first question.

That's the theme of the A side. Yeah, that's a good point. Stephen S. Hello, Adopt to the dog, Jose, you will not regret. Yes, I know. I'm going to get a dog. I just, eventually, it's going to happen. It needs to be the right one.

Don't rush into it. Exactly. Yeah. Don't be pushed into it, Mace. I'm going to get an English bulldog. I had one before and I loved it. He was beautiful. Fanway.

He was beautiful. He was. beautiful dog. Oh, was he? What a name as well. Oh, so we got a question. Was that a rescue dog? I have, yes, she was a rescue dog.

And we got her, we got her. She's 13 years old, and we got her about 12 and a half years ago. And as soon as they handed her picked her up, she pooped on him. We want her. That's the one. She's like, just pooped on. Oh, yeah. Frank, don't snor, lad.

All right, here we got one more question. We got more questions, but here we go. Fighting questions. From K-Doc MMA. Question for Molly. If you were left-handed or south ball, but right-footed or vice versa, would she recommend fighting in your hand-dominant stance or your feet-dominant stance for MMA? So I am left-handed and I fight orthodox.

because when I started fighting girls wasn't allowed in the gym and when I went in the gym no one said oh which hands you write with such a copy as everyone else but if you notice and fights for large proportions

of the fight I'll always switch off for I think in boxing I would fight I wouldn't switch if I was a boxer because it's just easy to get course and you've got to be a lot sharper but I think in MMA it's a lot more

easier to switch and not get caught because people aren't as sharp so if you can do both and switch then I do both um if not if you was a grappler I'd go with whichever leg you lead with if you're more of a strike whichever hand you don't write with should leave there are K doc huh that was a precision answer right there that was a that was one of the interesting questions Casey what are you Are you South Park Orthodox? Orthodox, but I do everything. But I got the, I'm an equal amount of time in South Paul.

Sure. Drainbo's stuff. Do you know what, Casey? I believe that you should do the last round on the bag or the last round on the pad Southport or you should always switch. Because you never want to be caught off guard. You know what I mean?

And if Plan A isn't working, go to Plan B. Yeah, like in my quarantine, like everyone, I have a bag in my garage and Shadowbox. I split rounds. though. Nice, mate. Pizzi, what are you, South Bar Orthodox?

I know you're just a leglocked master. Please stand square and just got like this. And if you walk towards me are getting to me, you're fucking gonna argue. It's not a salt lock.

Yeah, yeah. That was given to me. Ali is for it. Ali is a point. At Belator in a Belator, the Belator Dublin car, a fan, because we talk about crystals on the show quite a bit.

A fan snuck that salt lamp into the fights just to give to Pizzi sitting in a medium row. And halfway through he always turns it on. That's brilliant. Mine are getting cleansed at the minute. Good. Silly. Did you hear that, Pizzi? Her crystals are getting cleansed.

Oh, no, but do you remember when we started the Crystal Key? Well, when Jessica, the Crystal Queen started Crystal Keys to victory, Molly was one of the forces like, I want to be featured on that shit. Get me in there straight away. Not even featured like what one shall take because every fight, it's funny when I won my first fight in the UFC

in the bookie, I had crystals, St. Christopher, Ganesh. And what else did I have? Wow. I had like one over something from another religion. I can't remember what it was. but I've always like being spiritual and into crystals

but then she was like you need this one this one this one and then my best mate got me the crystals recharged them and then I never got him actually in the last one but I've still got them you were one of the early

members of team crystal on Twitter I know Brian Callagher was one of the first ones then when he fought in January Molly he asked he messaged us he asked for a Crystal after he did the official wands. And we gave him Tiger's Eye, which is supposed to grant like monetary good fortune and wealth. It's supposed to grant? Absolutely guaranteed.

That's what I'm getting into. This is what has Jessica mailed me and Pizzi Crystals. And she gave us a breakdown of what each one does. And one of them was Tiger's Eye and we gave it to Brian. And then about maybe five hours later, this is when the Cloudy Agadalia and Alex Grosso fight fell out. He got bumped from the fight pass card. to the main card of a Conor-Regger fight and then won the performance bonus. So I don't want to say it was the crystals, but it was 100% the crystals that got there.

Absolutely. I was at one of the Bellator events, and I was with like Benson Henderson quite a lot that week. And before he walked out, I prayed to this crystal and went over to him and gave it to him. And I was like, this is going to keep you safer, and you're going to win. And then he did, he smashed it.

And he was like, Thanks me, Paul. Wow. Vincent is, without a doubt, one of the five nicest people I've met in the mixed martial arts game. I don't know what anyone has nothing to say about that, man. He just takes books with them everywhere.

I've seen them at like five different fight cards. I'm like, are you reading again? He's like, are you talking again? He was reading at the Media Day, which I never saw anyone do it. He's just sitting there with a book from the there you go,

oh, sorry, can I excuse me, but it's just I've never seen anyone do that before.

I know, I think he was eating an apple as well when I seen him and that's like my worst thing. Like when they go

oh, yeah, yeah, I hate it. By week, no one's allowed to eat apples chew,

chewing gum or like play with ice around me I fucking hate it. Are you one of the more temperamental? I can't imagine

you being the most temperamental fighter though even on fight week i know everyone's very elevated like the stress levels are way higher but i mean in terms of the people you've been around you can't be the worst no way no i'm probably the best person you'll have ever met on a fight week apart from don't eat around me don't have a cold drink around me like the day i'm cutting weight and we're cool I was just because I respect other people when they're cutting weight I wouldn't drink in front of them

I wouldn't eat I'd like hey Jess I'd just do it on my own like do you know like when Liam of course was making weight

for the bell at all and we had to like cause of fucking hair extensions that was mad that was mad did not drink rounder didn't eat arounder it's always good for me

for making weight actually coming to a layer fight week. What's the worst meltdown you've ever had? Have you ever gone absolutely septic on someone on fight week where you're just like, okay, that was a bit on call for? Yeah. Yeah. In Greenville, in South Carolina, I was at the UFC gym

and I was cutting weight and, well, I say cutting weight. I was hitting pads just to get the last two pounds off. and I got in an ice bath. Someone recorded it and put it online. And some woman went, Is that hot? And I went, are you fucking met her? I went, of course it's not.

Well, she kicked off on me. And then she rang me. And then I was having maiders with her over the phone. Jesus. An ex-female box says, it's her mom. And then the other day, I went into the petrol station, and I've seen her in the petrol station

she's working beyond to the thing and I went are we going to bed need the hatchet or we're going to have murders here and she was like no I just didn't understand and I was just like oh

lucky this COVID thing's gone around or she would have got the treatment what Molly? I know I felt like I was crying after it when Paul Rimmer had to come in my room and I was like

it's all right it's all right I was like, no, because I've been rude to her. And now she's going to, because she said to me, what she said, you've changed. Oh, ooh. That's a horrible thing to say. I went, I just fucking rang you to apologize. And you won't accept it.

That's amazing. I was supposed to be fucking cutting weight. And then I was just sat there on my jewel like this. On fight week, I have like a smoky pen. Because, yeah, I have one of them on fight week because I just, I'll end up punching someone's head in the other words. Oh, that was an amazing story. Let's get more questions here. This can only lead to more badness.

Thank you for the question, K doc. That was actually a fascinating question. Amazing. I love the sidebars were going off with Molly here. from Gabriel Sajad on the YouTube comment. Sorry if I mispronounce your name. Molly, do you prefer your meatballs fried or sauteed and what sauce is your favorite?

Ooh. Do you know, I hate meatballs? What? Wow. Oh, revelations. I do like Swedish meatballs. I like Swedish meatballs, though. in Swedish meatballs

I don't like ones I don't like ones with a tomato base not into it just I worked at Subway right and when I'd be hung over because I just go and get on the ale all night and then come in up no sleep like this cutting everyone's bread

and remember just that smell of where you cut the bread it's called head of the line and next to the bread is the fucking Cambrose with the meatballs in. And, oh, mate, I just couldn't handle that smell. That's like when you walk into Subway,

and you're like, whoa, it's meatballs. Just imagine that on a hangover. Oh, no. Say I did three ships a week for like four years. I'd say two of them I was going to go over in every week. We're going back. Has it ever got you back in there? Like, if you've ever been walking, boy or Subway,

and say, do you know what? I need to bury the hatchet with Subway. Give me your goddamn meatball, Marinerra. Nah. I got, like, I'll go in all the time and see me, like, me all mate do you work in there still. And, you know, when I won my first fight in the UFC and this, I was like this.

I walked past, and there was painters painting it, and I went, oh, I'll paint it. And I spent both off, and I was painting the wall. I was like, I'll never forget where I'm from. Amazing. What a revelation. Meatball Molly hates meatballs. Amazing.

I only got clothes it because of smells of them. Really? Like, if I'd finish week off five or four, I'd go straight to the gym and then just smell of, like, fucking subway.

So, yeah, imagine how many photos you were upset and that were trying to cut weight and you coming in smelling like meatballs. How about me trying to make weight, fucking working in sickbay? Honestly, right, if the cookies were broke, if they were broke, they had to be put in the bin and wasted off. So I'd like make them.

I was like, oh shit, this is breaking this one. And then I'll chew it and then spit it out because I couldn't swallow it for the calories, but it just needed the taste. Oh, my God. This is incredible. The revelations were happening here. We could write a book off the information we've had in the first 30 minutes of this. Do you know what?

Subway would probably fucking take me to court. Just feeling this. Doing that. They should sponsor you. I've got firefighting there. I've got far fighting Subway. Because I used to wake the night shifts because it was 24 hours. Or like you, I can't tell you the shit that I've seen in that subway.

Imagine you're 24 hours a day in Liverpool. That would be mental. that would be... Could you imagine a golden They don't have a 24 hour one here for a reason, Molly Listen, we have security guards on

Yeah, yeah Get off at 5 in the morning And then the shift was 11-7 For two hours It'd just be made another gay In them two hours I'd be like Do you know the thing

That you put the sandwich on The trail that you put it in the oven with Be fucking swinging that at people Get out this job you're you talking to that is me like just make a fucking sandwich I'm like

who the fuck are you talking to? Have you ever? Did you ever proper level someone in there like on an night after an hour on the sauce obviously they come in in bits Oh yeah

I just remember some lad This is actually a really good story This Oh tell us Please tell us This blonde girl's come in Five in the morning

and drunk, stumbling over, and then this lad followed her in. And he was like, it was, I'm not sure where in Africa, but he was African. And he's come in, and he's like, put his arm round her. And I went to him,

Hey, mate, what's her name? And he went, what's her name? Because I just didn't think he knew her. I was just something in my belly. He was like, nah, this is not enough. And he's like, fucking shut up, love.

Could you imagine my face? Oh my God. So then she's opened a purse. I'm like, and he's trying to get the money off the purse. And he went, Hey, mate, what the fuck? And he went,

I'm the police who are you talking to? He said, he's not the fucking police. Anyway, he's on the phone. Loads of cars have come full of, full of more of his mates. And he's tried to drag the girl out of the subway.

I've gone out to him. I've gone out to him. I had to fight with him, right? So Subway is just, glass mirror. It's just glass window, sorry. I've had to fight with him. Like, he's gone to kick me in the head. I've

leg kicked him. The police have come and took him. I've had to go and make a statement. It only turns out that he was a sex trafficker and he was trying to take her. And they'd watch the cameras and he had raped here. He put date rape in her drink

to take her to steal her and she would have never been seen again. And I was like, I was like this, all in the days work, guys. You're a legend, Molly. That is incredible. That is incredible, Molly. Wow. You're a savage.

You are a savage. Oh, my God. Right, I'm not, I can be mouth. I can be a big mouth. But, like, if there's injustice, I'm just nod into it. And I could just see something where, I don't know. So. That is an incredible story.

Oh, my God. That is going into the A-side Live Chat Hall of Fame up there with Michael Keats' Yeti's stories, Brian Keller's Crystal Stories. This is going in the Hall of Fame right here. Yeah. Wow. And did that girl ever get on to you after that, Molly? Did that girl ever get in touch with you after that?

No, so the police tried to make her stay. And she just got off because she was like, no, no, no. I think she just freaked her out for. When I went to the station to make a statement, the man who took my statement was a jiu-jitsu practitioner from the gym. And I was just like, look, I'm not really into this kind of thing, like, you know, giving statements and that. In Liverpool, we're not kinds of intergrossing.

But he was just like, look, he's in the cell. We've just drug tested him. He's full of this, this, this and this. he's actually known for this he's illegal immigrants blah blah blah blah and then I think he just got sent home

because I was asked to go to court and then the case got cancelled because he got sent home that is wild that is so wild that girl's getting touched you and thank you that is crazy I was

do know what I was 22 too. So that's quite young to be like standing up to a man of a big stancher and then cars outside for, but my mum always said, never back down while you go down swinging girl. I was like, all right. I would love to just see you beating the shit out of that guy. I'd pay good money for that.

Oh, my God. Listen, I forgot to tell you. I haven't got it, but that it's actually, I can find it. It went around BBM because back in the day it was BBM. And in our subway chat, it was there. It was like, how funny is this, Molly Legg and some big lad? Oh, my gosh, we got to find that footage. How was there not a Meatball Molly McCann documentary yet?

This is incredible. This is crazy. Me and Jim Edwards are going to write me for my life story. Like, the world doesn't even know. out of half of it. Like,

not even three quarters of it. That's crazy, man. That is so crazy. My God.

Well, speak out of that you have to seriously. I feel like we're in Jamaica every time

that goes off. Keep dropping these fire stories on us Molly. We have to do something. That tangent

came from a fan asking what her favorite meatball was. Like, that's how

that came from Oh my God Oh my God Hey, I've got it all night From Nick Barry on Twitter What non-fighting related things Has she been doing to pass the time in quarantine

What was her strangest idea for hanging the heavy bag Before she got the stand Also big shout out to the super photogenic Frank Who Can you see Frank? There you Is he said it's snorting? He's living.

He was in the back. He doesn't mess around, man. No, I talk him for a big life walk today. I was about to DM you guys because I thought someone was rubbing up on their mic. I was like, hey, someone's in their mic, but then I realized it's Frank snoring. I thought someone's stomach was rubble.

It was just Frank snoring in the background. Fully says to me before I come on, it's like, you better get Frank. You're everywhere on the seams. She goes, you're not when you hear him snoring, you're not. I know what? I'm going to put me quills over his, not over his head like animal abuse,

but see if it's just quiet, muffles for the sounds. Don't worry about it. He's a legend. He can do what he wants. You and Frank could do whatever the hell you want. We've got the key to the city. Yeah, that's it. Yeah.

Oh, my God. I'm distracted again from another question. Sorry, Jose. What was the question? What was what you've been doing to pass the time in quarantine? Oh, that isn't foil-related, all right? Yeah.

non-fire related. Every day I walk the dog with my neighbour. I'm here, kid. Not together, social distance, and obviously, I've got to know every neighbor in our street. So probably just more like community-related stuff, to be honest.

Every day I try to do three things. One good for me, one good for the community, and one good for my career. And community that could just not community-community. like my rose, the family and out of main. Yeah, that's it really.

And regards to my bag, I got given a bag and I thought, how am I going to put this up? Because I'm from a terraced estate. So terraced houses in England are just houses next to each other. And there's no wall, really,

to put the bag on. So I just saw all over the bricks, a tin of paint and a rope and a pole. So I just tied it to the, tied it up and I was like oh my god it works and then someone's seen it and was like you you're not a UFC fight you're a UFC fighter you are not training or not

you'll kick it and fucking break your leg so then my cousin got someone to bring a scaffold down and I've got a spa bar which is that thing McGreg has got in which you put on his interview other day I've got like ground and pound bag kettlebells more beer you bag, a TRX thing.

Wow. You got a full gym now. Yeah, I'm now. And it's all just from people giving it to me. Well, it's you sending out good voids and you're getting them back, Molly. That's what that's all about right there. Yeah, 100%. You've also been going on to UFC 3 online and beating the piss out of people, haven't you?

I've not beat one patient. Oh no. I don't know how to play the game I'm calling all these like all these little students out who like all they do was fucking play UFC free and wank every day

and there's me and there's me like yeah let's have it and then just got fucking wiped the floor with every single time I thought you were like elite at the game because you were talking so much shit on social media yeah I thought

I thought, how hard can it be? Do you tell... Do you tell them who you are? Are you like, I'm actually a UFC fighter? Or do you just go in anonymous? So I give my name. So I'm me for my UFC. And then they add me.

So they know who they're playing. And then they put on Twitter, oh, she's fucking beat here. But some of the people take, like, the grappling off. and it's like, no, we're doing M and A-MA, like, I'm going to take you down because they haven't got a clue what's going on on the floor, do you know what it means? I thought, I'll smash these kids on the floor,

but then they turn it up, so you can't do that. Hang on a second, hang on a second. You can beat the shit out of all of these people. Does it genuinely upset you that you can't beat them in the game? No, because all is, oh, I couldn't give a fuck. But you know what I think? Imagine if my hero, when I was a kid, asked me, if I wanted to play the PlayStation.

Savage, yeah. Do you know what I mean? Or like, or took 15 minutes out of their life to give it towards me. I'd like be next level, so I just thought if I can do that for someone else, at this time, do you know what I mean?

Like, you're going to have parents who's like losing the world to live because the kids are just being little rats because they're bored if I could just like help her mom out for it. It's not even five minutes, lads. It's like 90 seconds and you've nothing else. but I don't know

I'll try and do me bit the best that I can do know what I mean that's really cute you're Molly thanks I'm trying to rub his belly from Thomas Beckett

in the YouTube comments hey Molly may you at the UFC Gym Nottingham thank you for your time and talking to my friend and I in your opinion when can combat What can combat sports do to help encourage female members to join and stay?

So I think, as a martial arts, as a female, is probably one of the hardest things in the world to do because it's just seen as just a man's thing. And I only did it because I was told I wasn't allowed to. So I was just like, you're not going to tell me, no. But now with that age where, everything is a lot more easier than a lot more equal you know what I mean and I think you you only need

I really remember saying this to these lads Frank shut up for this game was you've only got to get you foot through the door and then it'll change your life forever and it's just about a lot of growth after stock it's about growth and the growth only comes from not being in your comfort zone and the whole time you'll be doing them

you're not going to be in your comfort zone, but it's a nice, it's nice and it is, I don't know, it'll change the light of the better is kind of what I've said to them. Do you see a big influx on female members now at NextGen, Molly, like since you've been there?

Yeah, I noticed the first fight that I had that was big time for NextGen was on, um, Cage Warriors, when Paddy fought Madnaramani and I put on the fight in my life, That was amazing for you.

I'd literally like, I'd lost my cousin in a car accident. It was like one of my best mates. He was only 26. And then the funeral was the night off the way. And I couldn't go to the funeral. So it was like the whole family was just like just behind me for this fight. I mean, and it was so much pressure. And there was like 7,000 people there.

And it was just the, it was the scariest thing. And my opponent was like 20. and five and I was like four and one and I just thought fuck this let's go for it and I went for it and Liverpool didn't know where I was before that fight but after it he fucking did and everyone everyone's little girl started coming and doing Paddy's class and his class was

and still is about 50-50 split because Paddy and little Frambrian teach the kids class and yeah I've noticed it's a lot more I think I'm planning to be patient to any female who's coming up. I think that helps a lot. Because there's a lot of female athletes, but they're not, or female fighters,

but I don't see them trying to do much with anyone else with them themselves. But then see someone like me and me, and we are, like, she'll even do women for many classes in that, you know what I? And at our gym, we've started, we've got our women's team now in jiu-jit-to and we've got a good like m-ma team that he's both far with us so let's get another question here all right thank you thomas

thanks where the background go oh oh i take the background awesome ah oh it's getting mysterious play the entrance music again Give me the horns. Yeah. Lads, I was supposed to fly to Jamaica two days after UFC. London. Well, hang on. Patty was telling me about this.

He said you would book the holiday, the entry to book another holiday really quickly. And then was that what happened? He said you were going to Mexico and then to... What was that about? So I was going to Jamaica. And then on the Sunday, when the fight got canceled, me and Paige went and changed the holiday to Mexico to go earlier

and then all flights got banned and cancelled so I'm still waiting for money for that back as well I was like for fuck sake to me because me and Paige was just like fuck it we're just quarantine in Mexico well wasn't a Limele McFarlane was had to postpone her wedding in Jamaica because of his whole like she was her and her her and her fiance were going to fly to Jamaica and get married but then when they flew to Sandy for the connecting flight, everything hit the fan

so they just halted. You're a proper son, babe, aren't you, Molly? You're mad for the son, aren't you? No, pages, my girlfriend is, I can't fucking stand there. Every holiday we go on, has to be a hot one, right? And she's like, her nan's Indian,

so she gets a really good time. And then I'm just this... I'm this lobster look at me. I love them. Oh, I think that's good. would be so happy with that colour, man. If we could get that colour, it would be like,

this is the shit. I'm red, though. That's as good as it gets for me. That is as good as it gets for me, Molly. It's making me teeth look like Darren's though. Oh, amazing. Oh, my God.

Oh, that's so good. Oh, my God. Listen. Nick Pete and Adam Catterall and Dan Hardy have rang me about three times. The great fight the soibles, yes. Yeah, and so going like BT. And I haven't realized, right? Because it's just like off the cuff and every time I've had a pink gin.

So I've been like drunk. So imagine me on this now with a pink gin. Oh my God. Next time. Next time. 100% next time. I'll get a few cans in. Yeah.

A few more. Yeah. Oh my God. All right. Another question from our lovely, from Barry Oglesby. Question for Pizzi. Could you surgically alter a man so that his knees bent to the opposite direction? And what would the implication be for humanity?

So I guess this is for Pizzi for whatever reason. Barry Oglesby is an Irish black belt. And he's doing this to fuck with me. Could you surgically alter a man his knees bent? Oh, we talked about this earlier. Would that not make you insane at jiu-jitsu if you could bend your knees the other way while in the guard position? Would that not open up several thousand different kinds of submissions? It would probably just create an entirely new form of jiu-jitsu.

Exactly. So that's what I do, Barry. You know that. You know that. This is something of an inside joke on the other's jiu-jitsu saying I'm sure of it because he's, he's Just replying to everything on Twitter with this same question. Barry, I know you're up to something. You evil genius.

Barry Wayto. I better eat that Oglesby. Eat that Oglesby. Little point I can. Have that. Where's my horns now? Molly, do you know how flexible pizza is? I couldn't get you behind your days are, yeah.

Yeah, he's an absolute free. Yeah, do it. Yeah, she's new guests, so you got to do it. Oh, my God. I mean, we know he could have been so long and you don't notice about me. For those of you just listening, Pisa just put his foot behind his head again. It's kind of become a trend for new, new guests. Everyone gets to watch Pisa do that.

He did that in the middle of Media Day in January. He comes up to me, Molly, and goes, did you know I'm the most flexible person in this entire rule? in the middle of media day and then lays on the floor and does that. Do you know what the most embarrassing thing is? Every time I've done on this show I've been wearing the same runners,

everyone's going to think I'm poor. Oh my God. I'm next to me, run a shelf. Yeah, you've got some insane shoes. Remember them ones you were wearing in Dublin? The React, right? They were beautiful. These ones.

Yes, they are beautiful. Oh, yes. He's so stout. It's hard to get a shoe that's as little as my feet. I'm sized four, which is like a five in America. But does that not mean you can buy the kids always and get them all cheaper, no? Yeah, but you know, when you used to play football and you'd get a real pair of pretz or like a fake pair of breads, it's that same thing. They're just not the same.

We never had a real pair. Always had the fakeies. I mean They weren't fake But they're like The strokes Wainter They're like Frank

They were They were the versions My God The same The stock's hurt Frank You're getting it You look

Mub I'm gone Oh, it's so beautiful Look at them there Look at him, this. So photogenic. The attitude, man. I love his,

this attitude he exudes where he's like, what the fuck do you want? It's called rest them, bitch face. There you go. He's a dog. He's deadly, man. He's such a dog. Casey, you have to prioritize

Frank for another mixed martial arts. No, for sure, yeah. Say eye to the boys. Casey has made documentaries about Foyder's dogs, Molly, like Shore films. He needs to get one about Frank, right? Yeah.

Yeah. I asked if I asked Vicky at the UFC at the UFC if I could bring him

to London and she said now she went she went she depends no because she wanted

to but she said oh look at him she said him lying on me now she said it just depends

which hotels we stay off oh baby Brad Pick he used to sneak his dog into all

of them remember yeah he used to sneak his little a little kind of

I don't know it was a beijon freezer something, but you have it everywhere, but he used to just keep in a bag and take it out, blah, blah, blah. Yeah. Rob Font has his, has two on a lease that he

would bring to media day. Wow. Yeah, in America. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's actually Franks. Vitor Belfort would, like, walk around

like a German shepherd for a while. Yeah, because that was like a thing. You dog the same as Rose. Not me Eunice's. What is it like a work? A service dog. Yeah. You got to get Frank to be a service dog. Vitor Belfort.

I was like, this is my anxiety, dog. Yeah. This way. Yeah, we are so far behind though, aren't we in terms

of dog-friendly places when you go to those other places like so far behind, aren't we? Like, he's allowed in everywhere

in Liverpool. Same as Reggie and Blanche, of course, but I mean, everywhere else. Yeah. I think every

other country's better. Well, thanks for the very random question, Barry. Barry. Barry got tall by Molly. I'm delighted with that. Yeah. From Jones Eats Cormier on the site, he's asked this question multiple times.

And I think this is the first times he's ever made it to the site. If you are in a tandem bike endurance race across the United States, who would you pick to be your partner if you had to be in the front? Would it change if you had to be in the back? So, interesting question. Pete Z. Molly. Casey, Casey, thoughts on. sharing a tandem bicycle across the United States with a MMA fighter. Right. So you're going to have to think of the smallest fighter when you're cycling, right? If they're on the back and I'm cycling, I want the smallest fighter possible.

So what was that Brazilian girl? She was 4 foot 11? Viviana Pereira, was it? Oh my God. I fought in Brazil on the same fight cards as he. No way. Michael. What was that lad's name, Michael Fingy, and he just backflips?

Breer. Oh, Michael Pereira. Michelle Pera Yeah And the girl Who I fought Vanessa Mello Us three

Wrote us four are all In the UFC At the same time And we're all On the same fight cards In Sao Paulo She's really short though Right

She's like She's like She was like I just looked at it And I was like I wouldn't fight you I was just thinking You are straight

Off the counter you You know what I mean Should I mean now All right It's like a big share Especially Yeah Yeah

Yeah I'll go Small one right If I'm cycling But if it's a big person I need a heavyweight I need Brock Lesnar Cycling No

You gotta get Nate Diaz Yeah You gotta get Nate Yeah he does Triathlons and everything You gotta do Like someone that does stuff like that I just pick Max all away

Because he just goes forever And he'd like Make you laugh And then His son will probably Come for a bit and I'd be like, hey. That's a bad.

He's done triathlons too. I feel like sharing a tandem bike with Hoare Mazur doll across the United States. It'd be kind of fun. But his hair would just keep blowing your face. You'd be like, ah, ah,

ah, ah. You'll have a helmet on. He'll have a helmet on. You don't wear a helmet, pizza. That's a good point. I think we just ends up having maids us,

having a fight with someone. But that's what we want to do, Mali. That sounds like the best fun. I mean, you're fighting crime. It's not like you're just boasting people on the street here, for God's sake. No, I know.

I didn't say it was bad thing. Oh, Jesus. You're like a superhero. Yeah, it's my thing, isn't it? But when crime, one day at a time. Amazing. It's amazing. Well, thank you for the question.

Jones eats Cormay. I'm glad we finally got your question up. What does this one say? From LATB MMA. What male fight? or do you think has the most similar style as your own? Or whose do you has aspired to emulate? Huge fan. Love you, Molly.

I don't know if I'm really quite like Brisbane, to be honest. I just think my style is just have a fight. Do you know, a good old fist fight. I'm going to try and punch your head in and make you quit and take you down just to like embarrass you that someone from England took you down. Do you know what I mean? I think you're quite like this thing though In the way that you you set a pace that at the end of like second round

You see your opponent going holy shit Is this girl going to keep going And that's why he always did right Yeah Yeah And we're both from the north-west So it's probably It's all a little bit similar to yeah

And I think I don't know I'm 30 nearly So I'm from a similar area of training And where it was just like Like you run as long as you can run And then you hit us hard and then you don't take a step back. And I don't know, we've got bollocks as in a fight. He'll take a good dig.

And I think I can take a good dig as well. I'm yet to be put on my ass. Yeah, I can remember when Sean Alshaddy wrote that long form about Bisping. All of every single one of his opponents was like, it's just a nightmare to fight him. It's just, it's just you can't believe that he's still coming. You just can't believe How is he still doing this? And I think that's the way you are as well, right?

Like you always say that to me before you, you're like, I'm telling you at the end of the second round, they're not going to want to be in there anymore. And you always said that mental place. Yeah, and I, because I know as well, I don't cut much weight. I know that I'm not done in and I reload correctly. So I know my muscles are ready to go

and I know I don't cheat the grind so I know how many miles I've run in a fight camp and I know for a fact that they haven't because I don't know very many MMA fighters who run much, do you know what I mean? So it's just I don't know, I'm easy and I can relax

in a fight because I'm just like I'm not even out of breath and you are puffed. You're puffed on that chin I'm standing there screaming in your face, get up! You know what I mean? Yeah, that's my idea of hell.

that my style as well is like is not trash talk but Frank sorry guys he's just poured the screen yeah I like to like I've always since I was like 15 in a fight at

weighing foreign people's faces tried to chat like shit to make them few and then just so like gives the fight a bit more the next day do you know what I mean like there's a little bit more venom there's a little bit more spice I'm going to get the best version of them, then I'm going to beat them and be like that.

Well, I wrote this down when we were in Boston, Pizzi, and I told you that I told you this stat backstage, Molly. I don't know if it's changed since then, but Molly is one of two female fighters in the UFC to have three straight three-round fights with over a hundred significant strikes landed in each fight. So I think it's, I believe it's her and Angela Hill, and I know you're wanting to have a bunch of five-round fights, but as of October, it was just, just Molly and Angela.

Wow. Yeah. And I think that just comes from the box and I think yeah. I just

it was the first fight on the bounce actually wasn't it? Three fights 100 plus. Yeah. I just think

I stopped trying a wing shot and I started being a bit more accurate and trying to have faster shots and weigh them down

a bit because it's highest stakes isn't he? But it proved that I've got the engine and I remember

saying to, I remember me saying to you, have you got any more? Have you got any more? And then someone made a funny meme of that. Like, what was it? It's like a COVID-19 meme. It's like when you ask for toilet roll in like, in the Walmart,

have you got any more? Here, Molly, what's the most messed up thing you ever said to someone at the way in? You know what you just said you like to get in people's heads a bit, like show them, like you know, say something messed up. Do you ever say that mental and you're like, all right? No, it's not, it's not for never personal. It's just like the last one that I sent to Diane Bablita was like,

are you sure you're ready for this level? Oh. You're not ready for my level. Because it was her debut and I was just like, you're actually not meant to be here, you know. Oh, I see you tomorrow night. And then I, do know what I actually say? I always say this and it'll only be like a,

scouts real understand but I go I'll fuck you which just means like I'll knock you out but to anyone else they can't be like what

oh my god that's terrifying you know you should be like what the fuck like I say she's like what the fuck this made me my dream

and are you at this level at this level, I don't think you know. And I remember the one who was, that one in UFC London, I was like, do you hear them, they're here for me? This is my fucking house. You're in my house now. I don't plan it.

It just flies out of my mouth, like, words on me. Like that, blah. You ever, like, I think it was when Bisbing's stared down with Vitor Belfort, Vitor Belfort, was, like, yelling, like, this is like, like, I'm, like, God brought me here, this and that. Michael Bisman goes, yeah, well, Jesus isn't real.

And like, that's what he yelled at Vitor Bell for. So that's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard so I would say. My Bispings had some crackers. Luke Cullen Luke Rockhold as weak as piss. I reround that 50 times and just was, I couldn't believe. I never heard that in my life. And I just couldn't stop listening to. Oh, my God.

Achieve to believe. Achieve, believe. All that stuff. That was a good one. Do you know, like, the thing with Bisping is, even some people in the UK never, like, never warmed to him that much, but that night that he fought Rockhold and he knocked him out, I can remember about 19 people in my apartment, and they all went psycho. It was like he grew up with us.

Do you know what I mean? It was like, they didn't even know what was inside them, but when he won, it was like, they always say, all my mates always say, that was one of the best nights we ever watched fights, the night that Bispin clipped Rockhold, like, it's just such a legend. it was the thing of like taking him on 19 days or 17 days wearing it and it was like

did they do that talk do? Do you know where do you do like the face off and he's like Rockall kept saying yeah but I'd done you're in in the spa and then Rockhold was like it that was before their first that was before their first fight I think

was it? Yeah. I can't remember I just thought oh I love the animosity between them. Yeah I work for Ralph Lauren Now my shit doesn't stink I don't even need to train Do you know what I mean? It was such a culture clash man

It was just two opposites Complete opposites It was like the street Face the Hamptons Where that's exactly what it was Yeah That was a rough That was a rough night for Casey

If I remember correctly That night sucked Why Why? Why? Why? Uh-huh. Go on, Gaisy.

Tell us. That was the night, that was the night Dana White pulled our credentials and kicked us out of the arena. Oh. Yeah. But that's, you know, that's in the past. Now we're here. A legendary comment in the MMA. My funny story about when Biz being won,

we, me, Ariel and Esther were actually outside the forum in the parking lot. And we hear, roar, we hear just like big cheer. You know, you can hear it from outside the arena. And we all look at each other. And then we look at our phone, like, oh, this is being one. Then we go, oh, we better get out of here before traffic gets bad. So, like, we ran to our car because we were kind of outside the arena kind of just talking like, oh, that was, you know, about what just happened with, you know,

of our situation, but we're like, oh, man, we don't want to get stuck. We don't want to get stuck in traffic. So it's just, yeah. That's my business experience or when he won. Amazing. Amazing. So we all have great memories of that one. Oh, my God.

Any more questions? Huh? I'm sorry? Who was the co-made enough? Faber Cruz 3. Oh, yeah. We also had Dan Henderson, knocked out Lombard. Brian Ortega knocked out

Guida I think Porre B Bobby Green on that card That fight card was unreal Was that the Maxx? Yeah Holloway Lomas

When he put it at the house Yeah Yeah That fight card And then BJ Penn was supposed To be on that card Before I think he used an IV Before so he had to pull out of the fight

So they pulled him from the fight I think it was supposed to be him And Cever Or something like that And then eventually they rematch But Or they got that fight that quite car was unreal and we had the whole race but at the very beginning was like the first fight in the night and that's that one that was the best opening five I've ever seen in the UFC yeah that was there was the first fight on the entire car and stole the show yep one more question we got a where was it there we go from spot on pigs how do you think you would match up with Valentina extremely well

I think it's all about rhythm with her. And if you let hair settle or if you're not patient, it's a battle of patience with her. Do you know what I mean? And I think she dictates range really well. And I've not seen one person who fights her have footwork like mine and where I can't switch stance and we're fighting self-pours.

there's always a massive finger boxing so I've done it since I was 11 I'm not scared of that kind of fight with her and I'd relish it when she got pulled out against Jojo I was like I'll take the Jojo fight then and then the winner of that fights it but obviously that was never going to be the case

but I don't know I think people are now so when you get like a champion and because they've retained a free times people kind of think oh my god they're unbeatable and then you go and watch tape and then you're like no i can see floors i can see holes there and there's not many do you know what i mean and she's absolute world-class and she's leveled up i literally watched the fight um nunez last night on um beauty sports and she's leveled up so much in the last few years but um i'd be wronging to be in this game

if I thought I wouldn't win or wouldn't give her a good girl, do know what I mean? So the day will come. Like, it's a matter of time, do you know what I mean? Because there's not many more in the top of 10 who people really want to see

a fight against. And as long as my next fight, I get the win, I don't think I'm that far off. Yeah, I mean, your streak is considerable now, Molly. I mean, there's not a lot of people on that kind of run in the Floyd Way Division, right?

Yeah, I just think, like, this one against Ashley Evan Smith was like the, the nail in the coffin, do you know what I mean? I think I'm not sure if I would have had one more. Like I would have loved

the Macy Barber fight but she's injured and I hope she recovers well and I bet she's buzzing the pandemic here because she's getting all the recovery time whilst no one else can fight so she's not missing out.

Yeah, that was an incredible. That Roxanne Mata Ferry was amazing that night, man. That was such a huge underdog. It was just incredible. I think Macy was minus a thousand favorite which is insane to me considering Roxanne

her debut was like in 2003 I think Macy Barbara was two years old or something like that when Roxanne Montefarry made her MMA debut I think she has the most fights ever in women's MMA like someone told me a stat like that Yeah you know she's the gatekeeper Like shrunk

I think she's the gatekeeper to be honest I think like someone would strike like Shevchenko it would just like negate anything that Roxy can kind of do but Roxy's rhythm you can't really count if it like because she's that unorthodox

that's what makes her so dangerous and I'd never count it out I've trained her for invas and I love it and I message to go please submit this girl please Jesus you and Barbara would still be a savage fight Molly that would be a

oh no listen that that's got to happen but my coach paul was like i'd want that fight like on your next contract because you don't you shouldn't be taking that kind of fight on on my old contract you know what i mean it's like yeah because it'll be one for the ages that one i reckon it'll be like what's a frank really you know aren't yeah sell it so well man because both personalities people really like the two of you, you know, it's a great fight to make. But give me a full contract for us. Nice big contract for us and then we can start talking about it.

Well, let me win the next fight and then I'll get a nice new contract, I reckon. Is it definitely, Ashley, would you say? It's definitely going to happen to Evan Smith for you. You think they'll stick with that? Well, I know she got us to fight on a May card, but she's said now because I think she wants, she genuinely wants to fight me. and I think she's put a bit of weight on now so

um fucky give me the wrestler let me wrestle the wrestler let me out wrestle a wrestler just so I can prove to myself prove to everyone no one's talking with them can we just say that isn't it been amazing that we have gone this whole episode we haven't talked about this

coronavirus you haven't talked about anything just Molly hitting us with those fire stories It's not fantastic. I'm so happy. I'm brimming. I'm so happy with it. I haven't spoken about Roan once a day. I'm not breaking the streak.

She was going nearly a whole day without talking. There's me. I don't know. But, Casey, any more questions? Or is this a wrap for this episode of the A side? Yeah, I think we can wrap it up. Well, thank you so much, everyone that joined us. Thank you for joining us on this Wednesday edition, Molly.

But of course, as always, as the guest of honor, Molly, the floor is yours to say, plug, talk about whatever you want before we sign off. I won't plug anything. I'll just say to everyone who's come up with me, thanks for the support, stay safe. And I promise, and I completely much promise, the whole of the team roster is going to bring it

when the fight is allowed to get. And Jessica, send it. send her some crystals Jessica officially part of team Crystal so she should get some crystals in a breakdown yeah do you know I've got like this jumper that's got crystals on it I'm gonna send it to Jess don't worry

it's on my Instagram it's called Crystal Witch at Crystal Witch and they do clover with the crystals in and then what the crystal means it's got the description it's full I'll send it to you

I'll send us the link because it's fucking sit That's unreal. So good. This is amazing. This was amazing. This is by far one of the most fascinating episodes of the A-side I've ever hosted. But for Pizzi, that's Casey. That was Molly.

We'll be back Friday with a special guest. I won't say who it is yet, but I am excited. I know pizza is excited. But until then, we're out. Peace out, bitches. Bitches. Wait, wait, wait, wait, right, one last time. See you later, lads.

See, Molly.