It’s a lot, It’s nice to strip it all away and focus just on boxing.”Īnd get this - all throughout her career, including her bare knuckle debut - her parents make the trek to wherever she is to watch their daughter brawl in person. For MMA you have to be so well-versed in striking, but also in ground, kicking, and elbows. “I always loved boxing in general, and I can’t lie - I don’t mean to say it’s easier than MMA, but it’s easier for me to focus one one skill set, just the striking.
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“Like any fighter I was anxious before the fight, especially because it’s a new sport, and I was coming off a two and a half year layoff, but overall I was more excited than nervous just to be back to fighting and doing what I love,” Driver said. I saw how it exhausted me, how it got out that pent up energy and aggression, how I could use it toward something.”Īnd with that, Driver - nicknamed The Red Queen - began her own MMA career.īut last week, Driver began a new adventure in the world of bare knuckle boxing, fighting for BYB Extreme, and winning her debut fight by TKO at the Biloxi Bare Knuckle Brawl. I trained for three hours and got my ass kicked. “So he took me to the gym and that was all she wrote.
“I was seeing this guy at the time, he was an amateur MMA fighter, he saw I was an athlete - and aggressive - and he said you need an outlet to get this out,” Driver said.
Then her boyfriend at the time took her to a Philadelphia gym. She comes from a family of athletes - dad was a professional race car driver, her brother was a two-sport athlete, mom was a gymnast - but it appeared her own playing days were over. “I got kicked out for fighting.”Īt this point, the then 19-year-old wasn’t sure where her life was headed.
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