Beatriz Consuli wants to extend her winning streak to 18 this Friday at LFA 221, combining both amateur (12-1) and professional (5-0) records, and hopes it comes quickly to save her mother from the stress.<\/p>\n
Consuli will challenge Shannon Clark for the flyweight title in the main event of the evening in Brasilia, Brazil, and her mother Cleo Consuli once again will be in attendance. She has been in the venue for most of her bouts, except when she travelled to places like Russia and Abu Dhabi to win multiple IMMAF championships.<\/p>\n
\u201cI panicked when I was going to have my first kickboxing fight,\u201d Consuli told MMA Fighting. \u201cMy mom has high blood pressure and I thought, \u2018I can\u2019t get beat or I\u2019m screwed.\u2019 I was more afraid of losing because of my mom than for myself [laughs]. And she was totally calm! She gives me a lot of confidence and stays cool so I don\u2019t get anxious, but after the fight she breaks down, cries, and tells me how much she\u2019s proud of me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beatriz said her mother \u201cdoesn\u2019t get nervous at all\u201d during her MMA fights today, and was immediately interrupted by her.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s a lie,\u201d Cleo said. \u201cShe\u2019s lying [laughs].\u201d<\/p>\n
Cleo\u2019s daughters grew interested in martial arts classes when they were teenagers in Rio de Janeiro, and Beatriz joined a kickboxing gym a month before turning 15. Cleo is now used to to watching \u201cBia\u201d trade punches and kicks and lock submissions in cages, but it\u2019s different from any other MMA bout.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe watches the UFC and gets upset when fights end too fast,\u201d Beatriz said. \u201cMine will be fast, don\u2019t worry.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are fights I want to watch that are so good I don\u2019t want them to end,\u201d Cleo explained. \u201cBut when it\u2019s my daughter, I prefer it to end quickly [laughs]. Look, I like watching fights, but I prefer when there\u2019s no stress.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cleo predicts her daughter will win \u201cin the best way possible\u201d Friday in Brasilia, and said it will be \u201cthe best fight of her life.\u201d Beatriz started her professional career with five straight decisions, and stopped Naiane Silva in just over three minutes in her most recent bout in July.<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe in the knockout,\u201d Beatriz said of her title fight Friday night. \u201cShe\u2019s very aggressive, always coming forward, but she moves in straight lines and has a very square stance. She doesn\u2019t move her head or change angles. Sometimes she switches stances, but she just switches and then stands still. My plan is to work from mid to long range, control the distance, hurt her with calf kicks and strong jabs, and when she rushes in to clinch and take me down, I\u2019ll ground and pound her.\u201d<\/p>\n
Training at Rio\u2019s KO Squad team after a brief period at Nova Uniao, Consuli is no stranger to her opponent. Clark is 6-1 as a pro, losing only to Yuneisy Duben at Dana White\u2019s Contender Series in 2024, and Consuli remembers that match vividly.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember watching her fight on the Contender Series and picturing myself against her,\u201d Consuli said. \u201cMy training partner Claudio Meirelles, who will also fight at LFA 221, texted me right then, \u2018Bia, are you watching the Contender? Seriously, you\u2019d beat both of them.\u2019 [laughs]\u201d<\/p>\n
Fourteen months later, Consuli agrees with her teammate.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m going to beat her. Following the right strategy, it\u2019s going to work,\u201d she said. \u201cThe experience I had as an amateur made me calm for this moment. People are like, \u2018Man, you\u2019ve got all this pressure to fight for a title fight, a world title, and you\u2019re fighting a gringa.\u2019 But come on, I\u2019ve fought five Russians already. My amateur career gave me experience that not many people have.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI set it in my mind that I\u2019m going to win this belt, and next year I\u2019ll be in the UFC,\u201d she added. \u201cI truly believe that. I\u2019ll perform really well in this fight and that next year I\u2019ll be in the UFC, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beatriz Consuli wants to extend her winning streak to 18 this Friday at LFA 221, combining both amateur…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-266782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266782","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=266782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}