{"id":317204,"date":"2025-11-29T20:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T20:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/317204\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T20:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T20:58:07","slug":"molly-mccann-vs-ebonie-cotton-ex-ufc-star-wins-second-pro-boxing-bout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/317204\/","title":{"rendered":"Molly McCann vs. Ebonie Cotton: Ex-UFC star wins second pro boxing bout"},"content":{"rendered":"

Molly McCann is no stranger to entertaining fights.\u00a0Alex Livesey\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

BIRMINGHAM, England — Molly McCann won her second professional boxing bout in as many fights with a points win over Ebonie Cotton on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Referee Ryan Churchill scored the fight 58-56 in favour of McCann (2-0, 1 KO).<\/p>\n

The six-round clash was fought at a ferocious pace. McCann had the better of the opening exchanges, moving in and punching in twos and threes, but Cotton’s jerky movement made her difficult to pin down.<\/p>\n

McCann built on her combinations and landed the cleaner shots as the fight progressed, with her left hook proving a problem for Cotton (1-1) for the majority of the contest.<\/p>\n

McCann’s combat experience showed in a dominant performance on Saturday night.\u00a0Alex Livesey\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Cotton kept coming forwards, establishing a good left jab, and landed several strong shots herself, even when a cut on the top of her head opened up in Round 4, with blood pouring down her face.<\/p>\n

By Round 4, both fighters were also breathing heavily and started to tire, as they both grappled and at one stage fell to the canvas.<\/p>\n

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Their styles, pace and heart made for a thrilling fight, with McCann doing enough to claim the win. Neither fighter stopped swinging from the first bell to the last.<\/p>\n

Former UFC contender McCann, who had 14 fights with the promotion, announced her MMA retirement in March<\/a> before turning her attention to boxing.<\/p>\n

McCann won her first professional boxing bout in September, beating Kate Radomska convincingly with a Round 6 stoppage in Belfast, Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Molly McCann is no stranger to entertaining fights.\u00a0Alex Livesey\/Getty Images BIRMINGHAM, England — Molly McCann won her second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-317204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}