Ebanie Bridges spills on “pub fight” with “blood everywhere” and “bite marks”

Boxing champion Ebanie Bridges has opened up about using her fighting prowess outside of the ring, when a group of rowdy girls made the bizarre decision of starting a scrap with her.

The Australian Blonde Bomber’s prowess in the ring is undisputed after she was crowned world champion for the first time in March, when she beat Maria Cecilia Roman to take the IBF Bantamweight belt.

The win capped a tumultuous professional career history, which has seen Ebanie ply her trade as a bodybuilder and teacher, before finding a passion for knocking out opponents in the ring.

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And now, speaking on IFL’s podcast RAW: The Fight Within, the 35 year-old has revealed that strangers would often pick fights with her before she became a boxing icon.

“I’ve got a really good pub fight [story] if you want to listen to that one?” She said, before delving into the incident that had taken place while she was living in Australia.

“I can’t get into too many details because obviously I don’t want to get in trouble, but I did have a pub fight where I was sitting with my friends.”

Ebanie had described how she had been chilling with her friends, when a group of boisterous girls had started clumsily knocking into them. The boxer said she had politely asked them to stop, only to be met with a sarcastic response.

“I’m like, ‘can you move over a little bit? You keep knocking me when you’re talking’. They were like, ‘oh? We keep knocking you?’ And started giving me s***.

“I’m not a trouble starter, it takes a lot… they kept going on…“I’ve gone ‘bang’ with all my might… I don’t even know what happened, I was sitting down and it felt like they were slapping my head.”

Supported by her pal, Ebanie recalled that the scrap had quickly escalated into a brawl between the two groups, claiming: “I couldn’t do anything because I had one arm covering my face and I’m sitting down. I felt her mouth, so I put my fingers in her mouth, and I ripped her whole mouth open with a big fish hook; blood everywhere, it was nuts.

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“I got up and I had teeth bite marks on me and everything and we ran outside of the club… It was crazy, I remember I went down to the restaurant with my hair all hanging out, blood all over my hands and bite marks all over me.

“I remember cleaning myself up and my friend was like, ‘where are you? What did you do to that girl? Her boyfriend comes down and goes, ‘what did you do to her?’ She was sitting there with blood p***ing out of her mouth, because I must have ripped her inner gum open.”

The Australian took the bold step to move to the UK earlier this year, leaving her boyfriend of ten years and close family to pursue her career in boxing. But despite now being focused on chasing her dreams, she admitted to occasionally looking back fondly on her wilder days.

“That was fun, I mean there’s more, I push-kicked a girl, I elbowed a girl… but mind you they all f***ing started with me,” she said.

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