Few mere mortals can imagine getting out of bed with a couple of torn knee ligaments and damage from a dislocated shoulder, let alone fight.
But Molly McCann stepped into the octagon on the biggest night of her career, her UFC contract on the line, with more than just Ji Yeon Kim to overcome.
Back against the wall, she threw the kitchen sink at the South Korean and any other appliance she could get hold of for 15 minutes of pulsating action that saw McCann earn victory and a $50,000 Fight of the Night reward.
Molly McCann was prepared for a war and delivered a Fight of the Night performance
The Liverpool lightweight roared in celebration after three thoroughly entertaining rounds
The video of the Liverpool fighter finding out she had bagged the bonus went viral and she explained just how much the recognition for her work means.
'I felt so much gratitude that the big wigs finally saw my worth,' she told Sportsmail.
'When you get the Fight of the Night bonus, sometimes it means more than Performance of the Night because it is three hard, slogged out rounds.
'I think I've been pipped to the post a few times, to finally get recognition from peers, colleagues and people in the UFC, you couldn't put it into words.'
To say McCann entered the fight without being in peak condition would be a grotesque understatement.
At times, she needed painkillers just to sleep and admitted to mentally pretending that Kim, Saturday's opponent, was the root cause of it all.
'I dislocated my shoulder last August and it's been giving me grief ever since and from that I was getting sore ribs, the muscles around it,' she said.
'In the last three weeks I was sparring and we both (sparring partner) popped each other's knees out. I had grade two tears in both ligaments and a broken knuckle.
South Korea's Ji Yeon Kim was on the receiving end of McCann's heavy boxing
'I was just thinking 'oh my God, how am I getting through this". The camp had been 15 weeks, like two camps together but I was not in a position to pull out and really had to show my worth.
'Every session I went into, I had to think it was her (Kim) fault that I was injured. I just had to punch her head in, she was the muse, the reason why every day I'd have to take painkillers to go to sleep.
'It prepped the mind for war and I wouldn't change it. I was a moaning bas**** every day after training but f***ing hell it gave me the best result of my life!'
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