Britain Hart explains viral post-fight speech

I get to live out the female Rocky story through BKFC … they let me do that.”

Mixed martial arts is based on moments so compelling they go viral. Usually, it’s a spectacular fight-ending finish, but sometimes it happens after the fight. In the main event of Knucklemania on Friday, the unheralded Britain Hart derailed the PVZ train. Then she did … this:

Britain Hart is not a person pic.twitter.com/blukf8DWP9

— Dan Canobbio (@DanCanobbio) February 6, 2021

There was a pretty good use of sponsor water too, dousing potential next opponent Jennifer “Jenny Savage” Clausius, and a nearby camera:

Lost in Britain Hart’s epic I am not a person, I am feeling promo was when she poured water on Jenny Savage after she stormed the ring.

Hart was clicking on all cylinders last night, folks. pic.twitter.com/pesBRJv50o

— Dan Canobbio (@DanCanobbio) February 6, 2021

It’s easy to laugh at, I’m not a person … I’m a f***ing feeling, maybe more at Hart than with her, and then wait for the next entertaining concussion. But boxing at Hart’s level is far more often tragedy than comedy.

After boxing professionally for five years, Hart, 31, is 4-4-3. In bare-knuckle boxing, she’s 2-2. She’s had legal problems, was in an abusive relationship, had her car stolen once a boxing event and saw her account cleaned out, and suffered bad decisions. So on top of the usual adrenaline after an arena fight, standing there before the judge’s decision was announced, Hart half expected PVZ to be announced as the winner.

I overreacted a little more than usual, because it was a surprise to me that people are actually living up to their word in being fair in their decisions and choice-making, she said on the What the Heck podcast. It came out a little crazy, because I just did bare-knuckle, went 10 minutes getting punched bare-knuckle in the face … but I didn’t have any idea that it would get attention like that.

I’ve explained it to people before, and it’s really the only right way to explain who I am as a fighter and as a person. I’m a fighter, but I’m a mom, I’m a friend. I’m all these things, but the best thing to say is ‘I’m a f***ing feeling.’”

Going back to that feeling, the feeling of working hard and really working for something and believing you can do it, and then it happening. That is an insane feeling. So I’m definitely feeling it.

I failed my way to greatness. I have literally have failed so many things and have so many life situations, ring situations. … I go through every single life situation at least once, good and bad. I have been through it all, and people just don’t realize. It has been a ride. A lot of people are like, man, if your life was a reality TV show, everybody would be watching it.

I’m honestly thinking every round I beat her, but if she wanted to do it again, I’m a company person. … If we did do the rematch, I’d fix the problems I had that would have perhaps knocked her out.