MANCHESTER, ENGLAND – JULY 27: Shauna Bannon (L) of Ireland and Alice Ardelean of Romania trade punches at Co-op Live on July 27, 2024 in Manchester, England. (Photo by Ben Roberts Photo/Getty Images)
“My last spar last Tuesday, I spit my eye open, so I kind of had a different tactic, I suppose, going into this. I wasn’t really able to stand and bang, as such. That’s not really my style, anyway, but I knew what she was going to bring. I had to be careful because I didn’t want my eye to be cut open and fight to be stopped. I had to be super careful about that, and it did reopen slightly, but I didn’t feel that. I did feel like it took me a while to get into the fight.”
