{"id":141645,"date":"2025-09-13T19:13:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T19:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/141645\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T19:13:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T19:13:14","slug":"ex-ufc-star-molly-mccann-beats-kate-radomska-in-pro-boxing-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/141645\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-UFC star Molly McCann beats Kate Radomska in pro boxing debut"},"content":{"rendered":"

Molly McCann won her first professional fight via knockout.\u00a0Charles McQuillan\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Molly McCann beat Kate Radomska with a stoppage in Round 6 on Saturday in her professional boxing debut.<\/p>\n

Junior featherweight McCann (1-0, 1 KO) started fast and hardly relented at all throughout the fight, proving too quick and too slick for Radomska (4-8, 2 KOs) in Belfast.<\/p>\n

Former MMA contender McCann retired from the sport<\/a> following defeat to Alexia Thainara at UFC London in March.<\/p>\n

Then in July the 35-year-old announced she was taking up professional boxing, signing a ten-fight deal with Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom.<\/a><\/p>\n

She began her journey in emphatic fashion at Windsor Park.<\/p>\n

There was high drama in Round 2, when Radomska appeared to kick McCann, who had let her hands go and pinned her opponent in the corner.<\/p>\n

However, the fight continued, and with it, McCann’s dominance.<\/p>\n

Radomska was floored in Round 5 after a strong right hand from her Liverpool opponent, who was in complete control.<\/p>\n

In Round 6, with Radomska taking more punishment, her corner threw the towel in.<\/p>\n

“It’s been a brilliant week, I’ve had fun,” McCann told DAZN.<\/p>\n

“There’s been valuable learning lessons and I relaxed a little bit. I’ve gone 18 months without a win so there was a bit of pressure.<\/p>\n

“It was nice and I started to relax every round. I hurt her a few times and it’s getting used to being a pro.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Molly McCann won her first professional fight via knockout.\u00a0Charles McQuillan\/Getty Images Molly McCann beat Kate Radomska with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-141645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}