Beckie Ainscough: MMA to boxing, training with Molly McCann & title dream

Former beginner MMA fighter Beckie Ainscough is making ready to battle in her first skilled boxing bout. The Liverpudlian sat down with GiveMeSport Girls to inform her story and what the longer term holds as she continues to make strides in her profession.

Regardless of being an up and coming title within the fight sport trade, it wasn’t till Ainscough was 16 years outdated that she took her first step into the ring. A powerful soccer household background had her set on a profession as a participant herself, however the pull of boxing utterly modified her profession arc.

“Boxing was at all times a sport that I needed to get into. Once I was 16 I went to a boxing health club and I beloved it,” Ainscough stated. “I had three beginner fights however after that, I wasn’t actually getting any fights. So subsequent to the place I educated was an MMA health club and so they [the trainers] requested me ‘Why don’t you do that?’”

I ended up making an attempt the Thai boxing, the wrestling and the jiu-jitsu and earlier than I knew it I used to be standing in a cage

Ainscough’s beginner profession began within the blended martial arts promotion Cage Warriors. She instantly set the stage alight with a win over Bryony Tyrell by unanimous resolution again in 2014. The Scouser made it two wins out of two in her subsequent bout, rising victorious within the seventh instalment of the Shinobi Warfare competitors in 2016.

Her final MMA battle got here in 2019 towards Manon Fiorot – the primary skilled bout of her profession. Ainscough suffered defeat by knockout in South Africa, however nonetheless revels within the alternative to battle outdoors of Europe. After that, she made one other career-changing transfer and switched again to her most popular sport of boxing.

“I used to be concerned in MMA for some time however I saved getting injured and sick and final 12 months I injured my ankle in Thailand. From there, the whole lot simply pointed me again to boxing, to be trustworthy.”

MMA to boxing

Ainscough will compete in her first skilled boxing bout in July in her house metropolis. She is going to kickstart her senior profession after making the transition from the cage to the ring. She admitted that adjusting to the change has been a problem and he or she has been compelled to kick just a few habits picked up throughout her earlier commerce.

She has needed to get used to adjusting her stance whereas coaching, whereas additionally shifting away from the quite a few disciplines concerned in blended martial arts.

Ainscough went on to speak concerning the significance of learning physiology within the ladies’s sport in an effort to enhance health and restrict the numbers of accidents seen within the ring. 

“It is an enormous factor that is been missed in sports activities for years and that is been an issue in my previous,” she defined. “There’s extra details about there now whereas normally the research are on male athletes however not on females although we’re clearly totally different.”

Preventing inspirations

Ainscough is at present coaching on the well-known Golden Gloves health club in Liverpool – house to native expertise together with Commonwealth gold medalist Anthony Fowler. The philosophy of the health club – which has been working since 1947 – is to provide kids from Liverpool someplace to coach in a protected surroundings.

“It’s inspirational,” Ainscough stated. “Once I first walked in there I believed: ‘It is a champion’s health club’, I simply bought that vibe.”

Previous to her transfer to Golden Gloves, Ainscough educated in a neighborhood MMA health club alongside one of many sport’s greatest names, Molly McCann. 

The 31-year-old flyweight is constant her rise into the highlight with a file of ten wins out of her 14 skilled MMA bouts up to now. Nicknamed Meatball Molly, as a result of she used to work the nightshift at Subway, the man Brit just lately moved away from Liverpool and left the health club she shared with Ainscough, who admitted she was “gutted” as she loved having a feminine preventing accomplice.

One other fighter who has impressed Ainscough’s recreation is Natasha Jonas, who just lately took on Olympic gold medalist and world champion Katie Taylor. Jonas additionally originates from Liverpool and has been a beacon for a lot of up and coming Liverpudlian abilities within the preventing world.

Transferring ahead, Ainscough mentioned the place her visions are taking her as she appears forward in her boxing profession.

“The final word objective is unquestionably changing into world champion,” she stated proudly. “There was an Olympic dream however I am nonetheless pretty new to the game so we’ll see how that goes.”

In a closely male-dominated sport, ladies are rapidly changing into the point of interest of world boxing. Boxers like Taylor and Sandy Ryan are paving the way in which for a brand new period of ladies’s preventing, arrange by legends equivalent to Nicola Adams who laid the foundations from early on. The likes of Ainscough are actually very a lot a part of boxing’s make-up because it welcomes up and coming expertise into the ring.

“It is positively wanting higher for girls,” she stated of the preventing world. As she prepares to step into her first main bout on July thirty first towards a yet-to-be-named opponent in Liverpool, there’s each likelihood that Ainscough may very well be the face of the subsequent technology.

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