Jackie Cataline devoted her total life to wrestling earlier than making the transfer to combined martial arts in 2022, and she or he isn’t planning to desert that talent to show some extent in opposition to boxing veteran Jamie Edenden at Friday’s Invicta FC 61 in Shawnee, Okla.
The featherweights had been initially scheduled to satisfy Feb. 7, however the match was known as off after Cataline needed to serve a medical suspension following a Energy Slap loss. Edenden was “pretty pissed off” with the cancellation, saying that Cataline’s “ego wrote a verify her ass couldn’t catch.” Cataline gained’t purchase into Edenden’s “whoever shoots first is a p*ssy” problem, although.
“Clearly she’s attempting to hype the battle up, and extra energy to her,” Cataline instructed MMA Preventing. “However in actuality, the truth that she doesn’t wish to go right down to the bottom with me simply makes it higher for me. Clearly that’s the place I’m actually good at. I’ve not fought anyone that I couldn’t take down and she or he’s clearly terrified of the takedown. So, for me, it’s identical to, oh, speak shit, now I’m actually going to try to take you down and harm you. Now, I’m not simply attempting to win the battle, now I wish to harm you. It’s gas for me.”
Cataline improved to 5-3 with a trio of finishes in MMA with a dominant ground-and-pound TKO of Kelly Ottoni again in August, whereas Edenden (5-2-1) seems to be for her fifth straight victory since turning professional in 2022.
“She doesn’t wish to go right down to the bottom,” Cataline stated. “She desires a brawl. She’s a brawly kind fighter and she or he simply comes ahead and throws—type of not essentially that nice of boxing, she simply type of throws and walks ahead, in order that’s good for me as a wrestler. Each battle I wish to win that approach the place I’m identical to mauling you. Take you down, reduce you open. That’s my intention going right into a battle. It’s not purported to be like we each seemed actually good after the battle. Considered one of us ought to appear like a large number.”
A mom of 4 who works as an electrician and a highschool wrestling coach, Cataline remains to be going robust in fight sports activities at age 36. The previous U. S. Olympic wrestling staff member has no plans slowing down, along with her docket together with preventing in MMA for Invicta FC and buying and selling blows to the pinnacle at Energy Slap.
“I’m going to be 37 this yr and clearly my window could be very quick for competing,” Cataline stated. “I don’t wish to be 45 and nonetheless doing this [laughs]. With Energy Slap, truthfully, for me, it was enterprise transfer. foot within the door. Dana White is my boss now. And the truth that they had been capable of put in my contract that I’m nonetheless capable of compete in preventing and Energy Slap, as a result of lots of people’s contracts don’t state that, they will’t do the rest. I don’t plan on slowing down both. I plan on competing in Energy Slap at the very least three or 4 instances this yr, and preventing three or 4 instances this yr.”
“I used to be on the U.S. nationwide and Olympic wrestling staff, so I competed for the nationwide staff for about 20 years,” she continued. “However I’ve a day job, I’m an electrician. I’ve two organic children and two step children, so there’s 4 children in my family. I coach highschool wrestling with my brother. I’m a brilliant busy individual, I don’t must battle. I don’t battle for cash as a result of clearly my profession, I make respectable cash, however I simply love to do it. I wish to compete, I wish to strive new issues. I’m going to try to get as many issues in as I can within the subsequent three or 4 years earlier than I lastly simply determine to retire from competing altogether.”
As for Energy Slap, she defends the promotion saying that it seems to be worse than it truly is.
“I don’t suppose that it’s any extra harmful than MMA,” Cataline stated. “To be trustworthy, MMA, you’re throwing a whole lot of punches in a 15- or 25-minute battle. You’re getting slapped thrice. It’s not as a lot harm as you’re taking in preventing. My face has by no means seemed the way it takes care of an MMA battle, so I truthfully don’t suppose that the harm is as unhealthy. It’s extra viral. There are knockouts. You understand, it’s extra like, ‘Click on on it, you’ll see a loopy knockout.’ It’s like a wow issue. You’re simply seeing this knockout and also you suppose that that’s like what’s taking place to all people and that’s simply not the case. I undoubtedly take extra harm in fights than I do in slapping.”
