Former racecar driver turned Renee Gracie has opened up about her “shemozzle” of a boxing debut on the Gold Coast last weekend.
The two-time Bathurst 1000 driver spent five months training, only for the wheels to fall off when her opponent deliberately kicked her, elbowed her, tried to take her down and repeatedly “slagged me off”.
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Staged at the Gold Coast Convention Centre, the bout was on the Podcast Royale Fight Night 2.0 event, which featured some of Australia’s biggest podcasters, influencers and comedians, who all swapped the microphone for a pair of gloves.
Former NRL forward Jeremy Latimore and popular comedians Andrew Hamilton and Liam Moore all fought, while members of the Inspired Unemployed and No Limit boss George Rose watched from ringside.
There was also a seven-man all-in blindfolded brawl, if that’s your thing.
But the wildest moment of the night was the bizarre showdown featuring Gracie which rapidly fishtailed out of control.
The 30-year-old admitted she’d had next to no fighting experience prior to her five months of training, but quickly found out her opponent, Summer Perry, had even less.
And Perry wasn’t interesting in starting either.
“When I got in there, I saw and noticed I was fighting someone with zero experience, who had no idea what they were doing,” Gracie said in a TikTok video two days after the dramatic event.
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“Then, not long after that, when we started throwing punches, I got taken to the ground.
“That is when everything went out the window.
“When I was getting MMA’d jiu-jitsu’d and kicked and I didn’t know what to do.
“I didn’t know what the next plan of action was. She was pushing me, and quite frequently trying to pull my head down.”
In footage of the fight, Perry can be seen attempting to pull guard – MMA-style – before trying a judo leg-sweep, knees and a headlock.
Gracie said the punishment wasn’t just physical either.
“While I was getting rag-dolled and body slammed, I was getting slagged off, being called a dumb f***ing s**t,” she said.
“I was getting told, f**k you, you dirty s**t, f**k you dumb b***h.
“I got carpet burn while being body slammed.
“At one stage she had me in a headlock and she was on top of me. Was she going to try choking me out?
“It was so crazy. While being slagged off.”
After a few hectic minutes, Perry was disqualified in the second round.
“I’m shocked and confused. I’m really disappointed,” Gracie said.
“I feel unaccomplished because I didn’t get to show what I’m capable of.
“I got dragged to a level I’m so far above it’s not funny. I got dragged down by someone else’s incompetence, and it’s really disappointing.
“I trained so hard, I bled and cried and worked so hard.
“I’m proud of myself for not doing cheap shots. I’m so glad I stuck to the rules.
“I feel like she just wanted to bash me.
“I took it very personally when she started to slag me off.
“I still think it’s personal, I don’t know if she doesn’t like me, if she doesn’t like OnlyFans girls. It was personal, it didn’t need to be, but she made it
“When you’re saying those things in the heat of the moment, when you’re trying to take them down in a headlock and calling them a “f***ing dumb s**t, you mean it.
“I retaliated, she left with the bleeding mouth and a blood nose and I left with my pride a winner.
“I’m grateful I won, and got what I deserved and she got what she deserved.”
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