Jackie Cataline devoted her total life to wrestling earlier than making the transfer to combined martial arts in 2022, and she or he isn’t planning to desert that talent to show a degree in opposition to boxing veteran Jamie Edenden at Friday’s Invicta FC 61 in Shawnee, Okla.
The featherweights had been initially scheduled to fulfill Feb. 7, however the match was known as off after Cataline needed to serve a medical suspension following a Energy Slap loss. Edenden was “fairly pissed off” with the cancellation, saying that Cataline’s “ego wrote a examine her ass couldn’t catch.” Cataline gained’t purchase into Edenden’s “whoever shoots first is a p*ssy” problem, although.
“Clearly she’s attempting to hype the battle up, and extra energy to her,” Cataline advised MMA Combating. “However in actuality, the truth that she doesn’t wish to go right down to the bottom with me simply makes it higher for me. Clearly that’s the place I’m actually good at. I’ve not fought anyone that I couldn’t take down and she or he’s clearly fearful of the takedown. So, for me, it’s similar to, oh, speak shit, now I’m actually going to try to take you down and harm you. Now, I’m not simply attempting to win the battle, now I wish to harm you. It’s gasoline for me.”
Cataline improved to 5-3 with a trio of finishes in MMA with a dominant ground-and-pound TKO of Kelly Ottoni again in August, whereas Edenden (5-2-1) appears for her fifth straight victory since turning professional in 2022.
“She doesn’t wish to go right down to the bottom,” Cataline mentioned. “She desires a brawl. She’s a brawly sort fighter and she or he simply comes ahead and throws—form of not essentially that nice of boxing, she simply form of throws and walks ahead, in order that’s excellent for me as a wrestler. Each battle I wish to win that method the place I’m similar to mauling you. Take you down, reduce you open. That’s my intention going right into a battle. It’s not alleged to be like we each seemed actually good after the battle. Considered one of us ought to seem like a multitude.”
A mom of 4 who works as an electrician and a highschool wrestling coach, Cataline continues to be going robust in fight sports activities at age 36. The previous U. S. Olympic wrestling group member has no plans slowing down, along with her docket together with preventing in MMA for Invicta FC and buying and selling blows to the top at Energy Slap.
“I’m going to be 37 this yr and clearly my window may be very quick for competing,” Cataline mentioned. “I don’t wish to be 45 and nonetheless doing this [laughs]. With Energy Slap, truthfully, for me, it was enterprise transfer. foot within the door. Dana White is my boss now. And the truth that they had been in a position to put in my contract that I’m nonetheless in a position to compete in preventing and Energy Slap, as a result of lots of people’s contracts don’t state that, they will’t do anything. I don’t plan on slowing down both. I plan on competing in Energy Slap no less than three or 4 occasions this yr, and preventing three or 4 occasions this yr.”
“I used to be on the U.S. nationwide and Olympic wrestling group, so I competed for the nationwide group for about 20 years,” she continued. “However I’ve a day job, I’m an electrician. I’ve two organic youngsters and two step youngsters, so there’s 4 youngsters in my family. I coach highschool wrestling with my brother. I’m a brilliant busy particular person, I don’t should battle. I don’t battle for cash as a result of clearly my profession, I make first rate cash, however I simply love to do it. I prefer to compete, I prefer to strive new issues. I’m going to try to get as many issues in as I can within the subsequent three or 4 years earlier than I lastly simply resolve to retire from competing altogether.”
As for Energy Slap, she defends the promotion saying that it appears worse than it truly is.
“I don’t assume that it’s any extra harmful than MMA,” Cataline mentioned. “To be sincere, MMA, you’re throwing lots of of punches in a 15- or 25-minute battle. You’re getting slapped thrice. It’s not as a lot harm as you’re taking in preventing. My face has by no means seemed the way it takes care of an MMA battle, so I truthfully don’t assume that the harm is as unhealthy. It’s extra viral. There are knockouts. , it’s extra like, ‘Click on on it, you’ll see a loopy knockout.’ It’s like a wow issue. You’re simply seeing this knockout and also you assume that that’s like what’s taking place to everyone and that’s simply not the case. I undoubtedly take extra harm in fights than I do in slapping.”
