Cecy Ulloa isn’t any stranger to being in bare-knuckle title fights, however this weekend’s bout with Andy Nguyen takes on further layers of significance. The Puerto Vallarta native will likely be competing at BKB 59, which works down in Tijuana on September nineteenth. The BKB Tremendous Flyweight Championship is being contested within the co-main occasion of the night time, and it has been greater than 5 years since Ulloa final fought in Mexico.
When addressing this return to struggle in Mexico after half a decade away, Cecy Ulloa stated [via Bare Knuckle Bowker],
“She’s saying that she’s very excited. That she feels that she owes it to her Mexican followers and to her individuals to convey this belt dwelling. Clearly combating on dwelling turf is a giant deal and that she’s positively prepared for it. She’s excited to point out what she’s bought.”
When delving into how a lot receiving the help of her compatriots means to her on this huge matchup, Cecy Ulloa acknowledged [via Bare Knuckle Bowker],
“Cecilia acknowledged that it’s clearly essential that she convey this dwelling and guarantee that the belt stays in Mexico. However for her, it’s extra of being that path blazer in Naked Knuckle Boxing. That it’s on the newer facet of issues. For her to have the ability to struggle for this belt and to open the door for different athletes can be wonderful. So she’s it within the [sense of] being a path blazer greater than something.”
A victory right here would additionally make Cecy Ulloa the second Mexican girl to seize naked knuckle gold behind the prolific Paty Juarez. That would definitely put her in rarefied air and the promotion’s latest Zanfer partnership seems to be to construct towards a number of Mexico playing cards hereafter. The Mexican boxing powerhouse is offering infrastructure and logistics items for this Tijuana card on Saturday.
Ulloa was beforehand a part of a giant struggle within the fashionable period of naked knuckle when she fought Bec Rawlings in a title bout at BKFC 4. When requested how a lot she has seen bare-knuckle develop since that struggle in 2019 with Rawlings, Ulloa quipped [via Bare Knuckle Bowker],
“She’s seen clearly nice development within the sport that when she fought Bec [Rawlings], she went in there considering extra that it was a boxing match and didn’t actually know what was happening or what she was doing. However as the game has grown and as she’s participated, she now is aware of that there’s a sure technique to reveal knuckle boxing. You’ll be able to’t go in there considering it’s simply one other boxing match as a result of it isn’t. She says there’s other ways to organize. There’s completely different methods, there’s various things that she wants to do this are completely different from boxing.”
“Now, she additionally acknowledged that, up to now she’s been requested, “Why are you doing one thing or taking part in such a sport that’s so aggressive?” I suppose what she’s attempting to say is that it wasn’t as accepted up to now. However that now, as she acknowledged, boxing gloves additionally reduce, trigger cuts, contusions. MMA gloves for certain do, proper?”
“Naked knuckle is simply one other one other sport the place you’re going to get these cuts and contusions. However that it’s a sport and that it’s now changing into extra accepted in Mexico. BKB’s bringing extra eyes to it and this present in Tijuana is clearly a giant step in that route. What she’s attempting to say too is that it’s not the barbaric sport that individuals make it out to be.”
Cecy Ulloa says Mexican fighters have a sure ” je ne sais quoi” and wonders if Nguyen is prepared
Within the context of falling brief in that BKFC title bout with Rawlings, when requested if a win right here can be that a lot sweeter if she had been to get her superb end result right here on this BKB championship years after her prior BKFC 4 title struggle, Cecy Ulloa stated [via Bare Knuckle Bowker],
“So she stated that after all, to begin with, it’s an honor to struggle once more in her dwelling nation for that championship and that she didn’t get the result of the outcome when she fought her first naked knuckle struggle. That she’s been slowly working in direction of this second and it’s taken a couple of years. However that she’s certain that this the belt will keep in Mexico this time and that she’s able to go. She’s blissful for the chance.”
Her subsequent opponent, Andy Nguyen, fought for BKFC and BKB, as Ulloa has. When assessing the abilities of the multiple-time King of the Cage atomweight champion in MMA competitors, Ulloa acknowledged [via Bare Knuckle Bowker],
“[laughs] She stated that she hopes that Andy [Nguyen] is able to commerce together with her as a result of as a Mexican, we prefer to commerce and she or he’s not going anyplace. Us Mexicans have that je ne sais quoi and it’s in our fists. So she higher be prepared for that.”
When requested if she looks like Nguyen will have interaction her in that type of struggle on Saturday night time, Cecy Ulloa stated [via Bare Knuckle Bowker],
“She’s saying that she isn’t actually certain and doesn’t actually care what [Andy Nguyen] does. However Cecilia stated she’s in to struggle and she or he’s going to convey it to her. She is aware of what she has to do to perform her objective and get that outcome.”
This isn’t the one championship conflict in Tijuana this weekend as Julian Fernandez is having a hometown title protection. ‘Pitbull Jr.’ goals to sink his enamel into one among naked knuckle’s most pedigreed legends of this period, Dan Podmore, because the latter goals to turn out to be a 5 time, 4 weight class titleholder within the firm.
Lastly, as she supplied up her visualization for the way she sees this victory over Nguyen transpiring within the coming days, Cecy Ulloa quipped [via Bare Knuckle Bowker],
“She’s saying that she’s predicting a knockout or a stoppage earlier than the top of the third spherical. That’s what she’s ready for and that she’s going to go for it. She feels that with Andy’s type that she’s going to have the ability to do much more, accomplish extra within the Trigon, and get that outcome she’s searching for. The best way she’s seeking to do it, which is a stoppage earlier than the top of the third spherical.”
