Yahoo Autos Cat Zingano ‘always looking for blood,’ which she found in grueling Bellator 293 win vs. Leah McCourt
TEMECULA, Calif. – Cat Zingano is a trailblazer of women’s MMA and with that comes a tough mindset when she steps in the cage.
“I don’t get in here for fun. I don’t get in here just to participate. Like, I really want to win,” Zingano told reporters, including MMA Junkie, after Bellator 293 on Friday. “Part of winning means you have to hurt people, you have to cause damage. I’m always looking for those cuts. I’m always looking for blood. I feel like a shark when that happens. There are moments that I honestly can say I take personally in there. If someone does something to me in front of all these people, I want to get them back.”
That mentality served Zingano (14-4 MMA, 4-0 BMMA) well in the night’s co-main event at Pechanga Resort Casino, where she earned a grueling unanimous decision win over Leah McCourt (7-3 MMA, 6-2 BMMA), who gave the former UFC women’s bantamweight title challenger all she could handle in a back-and-forth fight full of wild grappling sequences.
McCourt had a noticeable height and size advantage in the featherweight fight, and Zingano felt that. for 15 minutes.
“It was a very big adjustment for me, her being so tall,” Zingano said. “I felt like, as I was trying to throw these kicks at her, I was aiming above even my head, because she was so much taller than me. That kind of made it weird from my stance and my posture and taking my feet out from underneath.”
