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克拉丽莎·希尔兹在为综合格斗的首次亮相做准备时，听取了康纳·麦格雷戈的建议
两届奥运会拳击金牌得主克拉丽莎·希尔兹说，她不仅感激康纳·麦格雷戈最近提出的一些建议，而且在她首次参加综合格斗比赛之前，她还在健身房使用了这些建议。
去年12月，麦格雷戈在Instagram上评论了希尔兹在Jackson Wink MMA的综合格斗训练，这位前UFC两级冠军给出了一些非常深入的建议。
希尔兹在去年11月与PFL签约，预计今年晚些时候将首次亮相MMA。在最近接受Betway Insider采访时，这位WBC和WBO的女轻量级中量级冠军表示，她非常感谢麦格雷戈的建议，并将其用于训练中。
“我只是觉得当康纳伸出手来的时候，我觉得他用一种真正关心我的方式，他在祝我好运，这是我最感激的，”希尔兹说。“他不需要给我任何建议。他本可以看完就继续讲下去，但他却说，‘我要给大家提建议’，这真的很棒。我接受了它，我使用了它，希望一切都能按计划进行。”
希尔兹不会参加PFL即将在4月开始的赛季，但会在2021年促销期间的特色比赛中预订。首先是3月5日的一场拳击比赛，对手是同为冠军的玛丽-伊芙·Dicaire。
与此同时，希尔兹说，她在关注这场比赛的同时，也在关注PFL的名单。
“我等不及要回到综合格斗馆，”希尔兹说。“PFL宣布了他们的轻量级联盟，尽管我很努力地不去想综合格斗，我还是不得不查她们每个女孩的名字。我不得不。我只是觉得不应该这么做。
“我必须调查这些女孩，我必须知道谁在比赛中，他们的记录，他们的背景是什么，我对名单做了一个小的背景调查。”
Two-time Olympic boxing gold medalist Claressa Shields says she not only appreciates some recent advice from Conor McGregor, but she’s using it in the gym ahead of her MMA debut.
This past December, McGregor commented on an Instagram post featuring Shields’ MMA training at Jackson Wink MMA, and the former UFC two-division champion had some pretty in-depth recommendations.
Shields signed with PFL this past November and is expected to make her MMA debut later this year. In a recent interview with Betway Insider, the reigning WBC and WBO female light middleweight champion said she appreciated the suggestions from McGregor and was utilizing them in her training.
“I just feel when Conor reached out, I feel like in a way he actually cared and he was wishing me good luck, and that’s what I appreciated most,” Shields said. “He didn’t have to give me any advice. He could have just seen it and kept on, but instead he was like, ‘I’m going to give out this advice,’ and it was great. I took it, I use it, and hopefully everything goes as it’s supposed to go.”
Shields will not take part in PFL’s upcoming season format, which kicks off in April, but will instead be booked in featured matchups during the promotion’s 2021 run. Up first is a boxing match against fellow champion Marie-Eve Dicaire on March 5.
In the meantime, Shields says that while she’s certainly focused on that matchup, she’s keeping an eye on the PFL roster, as well.
“I can’t wait to get back in the MMA gym,” Shields said. “The PFL have announced their lightweight division for the PFL league, and even though I’m trying so hard to not think about MMA, I had to look up every last one of them girls’ names. I had to. It just didn’t sit right with me not to.
“I had to look these girls up, I had to know who is in the tournament, what their record, what their background is, and I did a whole little background check on the list.” |
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