UFC London victory over Luana Carolina as the greatest moment of her life - having been written off and on the brink of being released by the promotion just six months earlier.
Meatball, as she is affectionately known, demolished her latest opponent with a vicious spinning back elbow having ended a run of back-to-back defeats with a Fight of the Night victory over Ji Yeon Kim in September.McCann has now opened up on just how low she was feeling before bouncing back to winning ways - calling her triumph at The O2 not just the greatest moment of her career - but her life.McCann told Daily Star Sport this week: "Six months ago the world had written me off.
I was a no one. I hadn't lived up to expectations and my career was nearly done in the UFC."My team, my family, me friends, my partner, my sponsors, my management - no one gave up on me and I didn't give up on myself."I just kept my head down.
I worked hard and I've completely changed my life around in six months. Sometimes you seen these posts on Instagram where it says you can change your life in six months and the thing is to commit commit commit. Who should Meatball fight next?
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