Christine Ferea defends her flyweight title against Bec Rawlings at BKFC 41: Perry vs. Rockhold on April 29th.
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The fistic fireworks broadcast on the BKFC TV App and Fite TV with the main card kicking off at 9 PM Eastern time.
Christine Ferea spoke to Dylan Bowker of Bare Knuckle News before the fight. Excerpts from the chat can be found below.
The Ben Rothwell fight didn’t pan out, but this is a close second, right?
“Absolutely. Yeah, we’re going to steal; They have other main events and a co-main event. But I believe that we will be the real main event and we will steal the show. I feel like this girl, she’s tough and stubborn, and I like that; because then, I get to actually show some skills and talent – my own grind and what I can do in there in the squared circle.”
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You indicated when we last spoke that this Bec Rawlings fight is the one you were gunning for. Does this one check off all the boxes as far as having a skilled opponent who can generate that interest for a blockbuster bout?
“You’ve got to manifest what you want and believe that your hard work and dedication will pay off. I did call for blockbuster fights. I don’t mind fighting other fighters, tough fighters, different… Doesn’t matter where they are at with followers and stuff, but I feel like at this point in my career I do want the bigger names and I do deserve the bigger names to grow my name and grow my brand. I do believe that this girl has been on the highest level of competition.”
“She will have the composure to be able to test me in that way. Every fight for me is the fight of my life, and everybody I’m fighting it’s the fight of their life to change their life. So, I feel like the bigger names at this point make more sense for me. I have a few more years left in my career. I want to make money. I’ve put in the time; I’ve done everything I needed to do. Didn’t cut corners my whole career and I believe it’s my time. I deserve the opportunity to grow myself and my brand for my family.”
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This fight rewards the long-time fans of BKFC with you debuting at BKFC 3 and Rawlings establishing herself as a multiple belt holder by BKFC 4. How do you feel about this fight finally getting locked in and can you speak to how it has seemingly been on the radar since near the company’s inception?
“I do believe that. I asked for her a long time ago and honestly, she should have took the opportunity then. She had a better chance of beating me then than she does now. I’ve really engulfed myself in boxing and really started to study the science. You know MMA is great. There’s so much talent and so much skill and technique there. But, there’s just a different level in Boxing and the science is real. So, I believe that she’s picked a very tough time to challenge me.”
“I’m the strongest, the smartest, and the fastest I will ever be in my entire career, and it’s at this point right now. I wanted this fight a long time ago, but you’ve got to trust the process. The universe and the promotion knew what they were doing. Everybody else knew what they were doing.”
Christine Ferea continued, “So I’m glad to have this opportunity now on a bigger platform, where BKFC is now, on the biggest fight in the entire history of BKFC. With the names that are on there, I get to fight alongside the legends. I think it’s a perfect time to be able to shine and show what I’m made of.”
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You said you feel like Rawlings wasn’t loyal to her craft, and based on your wording, it seems like you’re referring to her Bellator run before returning to BKFC. Can you expound upon that a bit more?
“Right. Absolutely. She didn’t stay the course. She didn’t see the vision. She didn’t see the growth. She didn’t trust the growth. She didn’t see the vision. When you’re on top and you’re winning, you don’t leave something like that. You don’t vacate a belt; you don’t leave your champion position, and then try to come back claiming it. It’s just entitlement to me. It’s just privilege. She thinks she can just come and go as she pleases. I call her a pillow princess. She’s a pillow princess to me.”
“She wants everybody to do the work and she wants the shine. See the thing is, I’m a workhorse, grind, and I’ve worked for every piece of attention. For every place I have in this game, I have had to grind to the fullest. What she gets in two fights, I get in fifteen fights. So, there’s a difference in mental game, and she’s about to see there’s levels to this shit. She hasn’t seen my level of skill, tenacity, power in the UFC. Nobody in the UFC can touch me.”
Christine Ferea continued, “If they put me in a bare-knuckle fight against anyone in the UFC, my weight class, one above, and one below, I will demolish everybody. She’s about to see that there are levels to this shit. There’s levels to the mental game, physical game, skill game, everything. She doesn’t realize the sacrifice, she doesn’t realize everything that’s coming to her. She waited four years for the build-up and that wasn’t smart for her.”
