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[Bec] When the bell rings,

it's a very surreal feeling.

It feels like a lifetime,

but is probably
only ten seconds.

It's like everything
just dialed in.

It's like I'm in a fishbowl.

There's no crowd,
there is no noise,

other than my opponent
in front of me.

It's a moment of
"anything can happen."

And that's probably
part of why I like to fight,

push myself, my body and my mind

to a place that many won't go.

[announcer] Fighting out
of Brisbane,

Queensland, Australia,

"Rowdy" Bec Rawlings!

I'm Bec Rawlings

and this-- [laughs]

[laughs]

I don't know what else to say.

I'm Bec Rawlings
and this is Fight To Live.

I'm a professional fighter,

I'm a mother of two,

and an all over badass.

[laughs]

["Have A Seat"
by Ursa 13 playing]

The first time
I ever met Bec Rawlings

was at Alliance Training Center.

She wanted to bang,

and there was no
backing down at all.

I just wanted to be around her
and get to know her more.

[audience cheering]

[Jessica] And she had
crazy hair,

and, you know, crazy tattoos.

My first memory of Bec,

my honest opinion was,
"What bad tattoos."

[Jessica] She just
really embodies

her nickname, which is "Rowdy."

I agreed to take on Bec

partly because
I'm not real smart.

Um…
[chuckles] All jokes aside…

She was a bit of a ratbag.

As a little kid,
she was just feral,

getting into stuff,
getting filthy and--

She wouldn't accept discipline,

she was in trouble at school.

[commentator] Our first ever
AFC female fight.

Round of applause for Bec Rowdy.

[audience exclaiming]

[Bec] I looked really good

up until the point I got
kicked in the head. [chuckles]

I went down to the canvas

and I think I was out
for about a minute.

No one would ever outwork us.

If we lacked in skill,

we definitely didn't lack in
heart, strength, speed, cardio.

We'd just grind
and grind and grind

and work our asses
into the ground.

And it always showed
in our fights.

-[commentator] I think… Oh!
-[all exclaiming]

[Malcolm] So, Bec's
call up to Invicta was…

quite a surprise.

I'm the underdog
and I like being the underdog.

It's fun, I love
proving people wrong.

I don't know,
I could pull a submission out

or I could knock her out.

I'll get my hand raised
one way or another.

[Mary] When she went
to do mixed martial arts,

that was bad enough.

And then,

when you think
it can't get any worse,

she does the bare knuckle.

And I just thought,
"Oh, my goodness."

[commentator] Fighters look
intent on a ferocious start.

[commentator 2] Definitely
an eye damage.

[Bec] This sport is made for me.

I love to box,

and I think
the bare knuckle aspect,

it just fits me.

The fight before
the fight is hard,

so anyone that steps
into that ring

has already got my respect.

The first day was the day
I fell pregnant with Enson.

He started by shoving me
into a wall.

How could he do that

when I've got his son inside me.

There were stories
from outsiders.

When I first saw her,

I assumed it was
just done in training.

I guess that's how
it was hidden for so long.

Because you're expected
to have bruising,

you're expected to have marks.

Not knowing that
it was going on,

made you question exactly
what it was you were doing

and why couldn't
you see it happening.

[Dominick] I really got to know
the Bec Rawlings

and some of the things
that she has been through.

Facing domestic violence,

and how she dealt with it,

and how she deals with it today.

-[all chuckling]
-It's a video!

[Victoria] She is
a beautiful person

inside and out,

and she has an incredibly

powerful story.

Her vulnerability gives people
courage and permission

to really stand up
for themselves.

I was raised by a mom
and my grandmother,

so I can see the strength
in women already,

and she reminds me so much
of the strongest women I know,

my mom and my grandma,
in so many ways.

She is a warrior,

and she has been a warrior

much longer than any of us
have ever seen in the cage.

[audience cheering]

[Cat] She's seen it all
and lived it all

and still has a smile
on her face.

It's hardened her,
but it's also softened her.

She's a hell of a fighter,

a hell of a person,
a hell of a mother.

I love that girl,
I love that girl.

[audience cheering]

[Bec] It's not a time to,
you know,

I hate the saying of,

"What happens behind
closed doors

stays behind closed doors."

That's such an outdated
thing to say.

And I think, yeah,

it's time for people
to actually speak up

and intervene,

and raise our kids

to not only not be okay

with treating people like that,

but also not tolerate it.

-Where's your drink bottles?
-[Enson] Upstairs.

[Bec] Can you grab it, please,
mate, and fill it up?

[coffee machine whirring]

They had breakfast
and they're getting ready,

and I'm just making
their lunches.

I will drop them off at school.

We're pretty normal,
to be honest.

Like, I guess, we don't put
a suit on and go to an office,

you know, we put
our gym gear on and go

punch people in the face.

[laughs]

Zake just started high school.

He's the calm one
of the two. [laughs]

Enson is kinda like
the quirky little crazy one.

They're both into jiu-jitsu now.

Enson loves boxing as well.

He gets to burn a lot
of energy doing that,

which is important

because he's got
a lot of energy.

The message I give my kids

is if you see someone
getting bullied,

you stick up for them.

Doesn't matter
if they're your friend.

It doesn't matter
if you don't know them,

you say something
and you intervene.

And I feel like,

adults need to start
doing that, too.

[Mary] It's funny when
your children are born,

because they're all beautiful
in their own way.

Bec was different

because she had the blonde hair
and the blue eyes,

and the others didn't.

There's a classic photo
of Rebecca riding a yellow trike

on our driveway,

and we'd set up like a jump

for my brother and I
on our BMXs.

But Rebecca was probably two,

and decided she was going
over the jump.

After that, mom and dad
with the camera

taking photos
just as she's hit it,

and then as she falls off it.

[chuckles]

Goes sideways and lands
on her head.

[Mary] She was a cheeky
little thing.

She liked to be boyish,

and, you know,
wouldn't have her hair done,

and wore funny clothes,

and you just sort of
looked at her and thought,

"Mm… she's gonna be trouble."

As a kid, I think growing up,

you know,
I was a really angry kid.

It was like me
against the world.

And I look back on it

and I was like,
I self-sabotaged myself a lot.

Like, I made it a lot harder
than what it should have been.

I never felt like
I fit in anywhere.

I didn't feel like I belonged.

I didn't find, you know,
my space,

my place, my thing.

I definitely didn't belong
in school.

I definitely didn't do well
to taking orders.

And I feel like that's where I
got myself in a lot of trouble.

[Jacqui] As a teenager,
she was a handful.

As a teenager she was rebellious
and stubborn.

She just sort of
started to make…

a different friendship group,

which probably wasn't a good
friendship group.

I feel like when I describe
myself as a youth,

it'll be like a hooligan.

[laughs]

When I was working
as a police officer

and she was getting arrested,

she wasn't much fun
for either of us.

If you could imagine,

you know, a 13, 14-year-old me

with two middle fingers
up in the air saying,

"Fuck you" to everyone
and everything,

that was it.

"I don't like you,

but I still love you."

And that's definitely Rebecca.

You could quite easily
have given her away

between the age of 14 and 18.

[chuckling] There was
a description read out

for an assault or a fight,

and the description was her,
dead set her.

And I was probably the only one
in the room that realized that,

and had to say,
"I know who that is."

I'm pretty sure I was 15, 16,

got into a fight with a girl
and I hit her.

Yeah, I have a really
bad temper.

I lost my shit.

I didn't really sink in
what I've done

until the cops came
knocking on my door

and brought me in
for questioning.

And my parents were there,

and they're like,
"What did you do?"

No, I wouldn't have pictured

the feral toddler that used
to follow us around

would turn into the teenager

that was getting
booted out of school

and running away from home,

and then escalating to

getting arrested
and that sort of thing.

But I don't really know how…

things happened like that,
not sure.

Bec probably wouldn't remember

mum and dad living together.

and us as a family like that,
I wouldn't imagine.

'Cause she was quite young
when they separated.

It's hard to parent
from a distance,

and probably the discipline

that she would have had
from her father…

wasn't there as much
as what it would have been

if we'd still been together.

Back then I was just
an angry kid

and I just took it out
on anyone I could

and lost my shit.

[sirens blaring]

[Bec] And I kind of spiraled
out of control from there.

You know, I had
a few more instances

where I got in trouble
at school for fighting,

and got kicked
out of school for fighting.

And just kind of went
down that path

with hanging out the wrong kids

and doing the wrong things.

Just being a little hood rat,

I guess, you know,
just causing trouble.

Just doing shit
that you shouldn't be doing

as a 16-year-old kid.

It was another
fuck you to my family,

to my sister, especially,

who was a police officer
at the time.

And that was just my way,
I guess, of rebelling

and entertaining myself.

If she either kept going
in the line she was going,

she would have ended up in jail.

It was a mother's
worst nightmare.

I didn't love myself
and I didn't feel loved.

And I think that was probably
the biggest issue.

Deep down inside it was,
I didn't truly love myself.

[thunder rumbling]

She lost a baby at 20 weeks.

It was quite advanced,

and they had to surgically…

yeah, remove the baby.

And the staff weren't
particularly nice to her.

She had tattoos, yeah.

People in Launceston
didn't have tattoos much

and they weren't nice to her.

I actually made
a formal complaint

and we got a written apology,

but I think she just wanted
to have a baby.

She wanted to have somebody

that she could love and protect,

and that was just part of her.

She wanted to be a mother.

[kids screaming]

[Bec] I think
my turning point was

when I fell pregnant
with my eldest son, Zake.

I was 19
when I gave birth to him.

I had a few missed
pregnancies before that.

So, that was pretty rough.

And so, I felt like
Zake was like my miracle.

You know, I had this little
human that relied on me.

So, I had to change my way

and be a better person
and a better human

and a role model for my son.

I didn't want him to go down
the same path as me.

That's when
she started kick-boxing.

So, I guess, sport
sort of brought her back

on the straight
and narrow again.

Gave her a bit of confidence

and showed he there was more
to life than what was occurring.

[upbeat music]

[Bec] I signed up
to a cardio kick-boxing gym.

And as I was training there
with my friend,

I saw these people training MMA,

and I fell in love instantly.

It was definitely
an outlet for me.

It was a place to stay on track.

It was a place to get fitter,

physically and mentally.

At that time, I was just
another body on the mat.

I was just there, I showed up,

and I was nothing special.

I didn't stand out,
you know, from the bunch.

I was just in there to train
and have fun,

and get stuck in.

And that's where I met
Dan Hyatt.

He was initially,
just my training partner.

We were both training
under the same coach.

He was a professional fighter
at the time,

and I was just
finding the sport.

My coach went interstate
for a trip,

so Dan took over
the coaching role,

and that's where
we became closer

and I began a relationship.

It was fresh, exciting.

He was very caring and loving.

I guess, he kind of had
that bad boy vibe about him

that I thought was like,
a fighter thing.

You know, I thought that's
what fighters were like,

you know, big and tough and…

that tough exterior.

But I've never met
a fighter before,

so I didn't know
what to expect, I guess.

The biggest thing
you can take from fighting

is there's no honor
fighting on the street.

Fighting in a controlled
environment, in the gym,

and then, eventually,
competing on the world stage

was my outlet.

MMA fighting,
when I first saw it,

I just thought, "Oh, why would
Bec want to do that?"

I had no idea you
could even fight

at that point, professionally,

and get paid and actually
make a sport of it.

And as I got better at it,

my coach came to me

and asked if I'd like
to have a fight.

And I said, "Well, if you think
I'm ready to fight,

and I can do this,
then I'm gonna do it."

When she wanted
to actually compete,

I just thought, "My goodness,

you're such a beautiful girl."

"Why would you want to get
your face punched in?"

A lot of people think fighting
is just this barbaric sport,

but it actually
teaches you discipline.

It teaches you respect
and humility,

and that's what I really needed
at that point in time.

And it definitely
changed my life.

[reporter] What I'm about
to show you

is pretty damn exciting.

It's Bec "Rowdy" Hyatt,
five foot five,

her MMA debut in the pink.

And Rhiannon
"The Tornado" Thompson,

one and O,
she is five foot seven.

Going into this fight,
again, one and O.

Her second fight,
here's the video.

[Bec] You're going
into this fight,

you're not knowing
what you're walking into.

It was chaos.

[audience cheering]

[screams]

I went out there and I fought
as hard as I could,

and I enjoyed the fight.

I looked really good,

up until the point I got
kicked in the head. [chuckles]

So, but that's MMA, you know,
these things can happen.

I made one little error
and she capitalized on that.

And I went down to the canvas

and I think it was out
for about a minute.

That's career ending

for someone on their debut.

You know, that's a big shock
to your system

to get kicked in the face
and knocked unconscious.

So… but it never
crossed my mind.

I never thought,
"I'm gonna quit,

that was horrible."

I was just,
"Let's get back in the gym,

let's make sure
it never happens again."

It was after a few months
with Dan

that things
started getting weird.

It was everything being fine,

and then all of a sudden

him not talking to me,

just full ghosting me.

And then, he would appear
back on the scene

with no explanation.

And that cycle just kept going.

And it made me start
questioning, "What did I do?

Did I say something?"

And I started questioning myself

and my actions and my words.

And it kept me, you know,
trying to…

I guess, fight for his
acceptance and love.

And now looking back at it,

I see what he was doing.

He was making me vulnerable,

he was making me…

question myself
and my sanity and…

and look at myself like
I was the problem.

Dan started to take control
bit by bit.

The way he perceived it was

that he was trying
to help with my career.

He was trying to help
with my training

and my nutrition

to become more recognized
on social media

and to build my career.

And the way he would word it

and twist the whole situation
was he was trying to help me.

He was doing it out
of the kindness of his heart.

[Mary] The fact that
I didn't really like him

didn't mean that they weren't
happy at that point in time.

He was certainly
pushing her career,

and she wanted it to be pushed.

So, yeah, every thing
looked hunky-dory.

[Bec] He intervened
with all my friendships.

He said I had to choose
between him and my friends.

It was really hard to give
in to that demand.

He would say something
about Zake and Zake's father,

and I would get upset.

Then, he would spin it around,

like I caused that
because I got upset.

And that I'm making him
hurt me.

The relationship became physical

the day I found out
I was pregnant with Enson.

He started by shoving me
into a wall.

How could he do that

when I've got his son inside me?

Every time it would get
to the physical point,

he would say,
"Why do you make me do this?"

"Why are you making me do this?"

He'd say it over and over

until I believed that, you know,
I was causing these issues

because I was fighting back.

[somber music]

He was always very, very sweet

after the fight would would end.

After, you know,
the physical stuff would end,

he was always very apologetic.

He was always very emotional.

He would plead with me,

he would even cry
that he was sorry,

and that I make him
do these things,

and he wish I wouldn't
make him do it.

Seven, eight months,

a little bit longer
before we got married.

And I honestly got married

because I thought it was going
to fix all of our problems.

Everything in my head

was this was gonna
make it better.

This was gonna…
he was gonna stop abusing me.

He was gonna finally love me

because I'm making
this commitment to him

and proving to him
how much I loved him.

At the time of the wedding,

none of us had any idea
what Dan was really like.

He was strange.

I suppose a wedding
is always all about the bride,

so didn't really know much…

Had much to do with him, really.

He was just quiet.

[Mary] He was a bit
of an odd ball.

He didn't really
talk to us much,

but we just accepted him
for what he was,

as you do.

Bec loved him,

that was important to us.

To all accounts, they looked
like a loving couple.

And then, not long
after the wedding,

I moved to Queensland.

[melancholic music playing]

[Bec] I felt like
it was going to fix us.

I thought it was gonna be
that magic pill

that our relationship needed.

And part of that appeal was,

you know, getting married to him

and moving to Brisbane…

To train at a better gym,

to further his career,

to get away
from the Tassie life,

to get away from Zake's father

and all my friends down there

that were his reminder of…

what I was

and that's why
he couldn't love me

or give me…

treat me the way that he thinks
I should have been treated

or he couldn't treat me the way
I should have been treated

because I was a bad person.

I was a bad person
when I was in Tasmania.

So, moving to Brisbane

and getting married to him
and all these steps

were my way of trying to fix it.

Trying to prove to him

that I was worthy of his love.

I don't feel
that I was a bad person.

I just don't think
I loved myself enough

to want better.

I felt like I deserved it

or I was doing something

to deserve the way
he was treating me.

And I didn't love myself

to want better for myself.

At the point where social media

became a big part of my career,

I had no control over it.

I didn't even have access to it.

That was Dan
pretending to be me online.

Everything was just fake.

It portrayed that we were
this happy family

and I was this happy, bubbly mom
with two kids,

and we were gonna
live happily ever after.

Well, it couldn't have been
further from the truth.

Seeing them both
together at the gym

four to five times a week,

Bec and Dan together
were like a lot of couples.

A little bit volatile,
sometimes,

a little bit friendly,

joking, playing with each other,

sometimes distant.

Sometimes I'd be training one

and the other one would barely
make eye contact with the other.

None of that stood out
as something…

unusual at the time.

It was just a young couple.

It slowly got worse, you know?

He would get to go a bit longer.

It wasn't just a shove
here and there,

you know he'd hold me down

or he would kick me.

Or… I remember sitting
on the computer one day,

and he just came up behind me.

We hadn't even had an argument.

He just came up behind me
and choked me unconscious.

And I woke up with my head
in the keyboard.

[foreboding music]

And then, he would find
different ways to hurt me.

He would, you know,
trash my house

and destroy my things

or destroy Zake's things.

Yeah, it just slowly got worse.

I guess, he got more confident

with me not talking,
not telling anyone.

At that point,
I was in survival mode.

I was in protection mode

of my two baby cubs.

And they were…

The only thing on my mind
was to protect them

and keep them safe,

and to keep them
out of harm's way.

He did the typical
domestic violence sort of thing

where he alienated the family,

he moved her away from us

as far as he could.

But he came up against
the Rawlings family

and we all stick together.

So, we spent a lot of time
in Queensland.

We thought that there was

some, you know, hitting

and so forth going on,

but we couldn't…
we never witnessed it.

We saw the bruises,
but Bec just said,

"Oh, that's from training."

[Malcolm] There were stories
from outsiders

who would would speak to me
quietly and privately

and say, "Look,
I've heard some things

that maybe Dan, you know,
has been abusive to Bec

or is very controlling."

But when we would
question her on that,

there was always
a bubbly response

that we should
all not worry about it,

that we should all
not be concerned,

that she was okay.

He controlled my fight career.

He controlled
everything around me,

and I felt like
I couldn't get out.

He threatened
to slander my name.

He threatened
to release nude photos.

He threatened to basically
destroy my credibility.

And I was scared.

I didn't know what I was going
to do if that happened.

There's a lot
of horrible feelings,

there's feelings of, you know,
scared for my life,

there's feelings
of helplessness,

being pinned down
and not being able to move.

It's not a nice feeling.

Not being able to breathe
is not a nice feeling.

The feeling, I think,
is like sheer terror.

It's trying to fight back
and not being able to.

Especially, I was training
at the time,

so I knew what I had to do,
but I couldn't.

He was bigger, he was better.

And it got to the point
where I would fight back

as much as I could,

and then I'd just give up

and wait for him to stop.

And I think that's what
hurt the most,

was I just gave up

and just hoped
that he didn't kill me.

[director] Bec, can you…

What were the kinds of things
that he did to you?

He kicked and punched me.

He choked me unconscious.

He held me down by my throat

and drove his elbow
into my face.

He would spit on me.

He would pour milk on me.

Pour anything he could get
his hands on on top of me.

He would smother me
with pillows.

[sniffles] He'd hold me
down for hours,

not being able to get up.

He would tear my house apart

and slash my couches,

smash my TVs.

Cut up all my clothes,
pour bleach on them,

so I had no clothes to wear.

[exhales]

I think the hardest was when
he would just be sadistic.

He just hold me down
and spit on me

or pour things on me
or smother me.

That was I think the worst.

[somber music]

A lot of our arguments began

with me defending my son.

He was never physical
towards Zake,

but he was very emotionally
abusive towards him.

He didn't treat him
very nicely at all.

I remember
the incident, actually.

It was an argument over

the computer or the Xbox,

something along those lines.

And he threw a mobile phone
at my face.

And Enson was upstairs,
asleep in the cot,

and Zake
was downstairs, playing.

And I just picked up Zake
and I just wanted to leave,

and I went to get Enson

and he just blocked,
he barricaded the stairs,

so I couldn't get to Enson.

So, I picked up Zake
and I just left.

And I went to the gym,

we walked all the way
to the gym,

which is about five kilometers.

And I told my coach

and he called
the police straight away.

So, you've got to imagine,

you've got a room full
of killers here, yeah?

You've got a room
full of fighters

that can do pretty much whatever
they like to other people

in a situation.

And I saw a lot of tough guys
cry that day.

Saw a lot of guys
that were angry

they couldn't do something.

A couple of the fighters wanted
to take it upon themselves

to fix the situation.

[sighs]

It was a tough day,
it was tough day.

Only if I had done
what I should have done

when I first had suspicions

or you know, may have thought
something was happening,

I should have spoken up,
you know…

It's just that stigma
around it all.

To this day still, people
think it's not their business

or you know, it's not
their place or whatever.

No, it's… I was guilty
of thinking that way back then.

[Bec] I knew Dan
would never hurt Enson.

Enson was his pride and joy,

he was his son.

So, I knew he was safe.

I knew he would never
hurt him at that point.

The next day,
while it was the night…

In the night,
it was early morning,

my friend drove me there
and I snuck up

and I took him.

I got hundreds
and hundreds of texts.

They range from a range
of emotions.

They were like, "I'm sorry,"

and apologizing
to "I love you," to,

"Fuck you,
you're a piece of shit."

And back to wanting
to see Enson.

Apologizing for treating me
the way he did,

apologizing for hurting me.

Revenge, yeah. Make him pay.

I think that was the big thing
in the gym.

It was little pockets
of people planning things

to get back at someone.

Obviously, some of us,
little bit older

and trying to be
a little bit wiser.

[Adrian] The feeling inside
is both, you know,

sadness for it happening to her,

and just complete anger

and wanting to go take it down
on the person that did it.

[Mary] In hindsight,
if we'd known,

I would have done
everything in my power

to get her away from him.

He used to tell me that

I was damaged goods,

and that no one
would ever want me,

and I had two kids
to two different dads.

And so, I should be thankful
that he wanted to be with me.

[Jacqui] I found out
they were in Queensland.

I end up speaking
to the police in Queensland

that attended the most
serious incident,

which ended up getting
their equivalent

of child protective
services involved,

which I think helped
Bec sort of…

make the break

and fly with kids
and get away from him.

She had some really good friends
out there at the time

from the gym that helped her.

Helped her with the boys

and got her away from him.

[Adrian] I brought them in
after all that happened,

I didn't see any other option.

They needed help,
they needed a place to go.

I called my parents.

Of course, they said,
"Yes" straight away

without skipping a beat,

and just brought them in.

It was the humane thing to do

and the right thing to do.

My relationship
with Adrian is unique.

We originally were friends,

training partners.

His family took us in

when we had nowhere to stay,

so I was able to live
close to the gym and train.

For people to take in, you know,

me and my two kids…

and do that,

you know, you don't come across
those kind of people.

And it shows what
kind of people they are.

That friendship
formed into a relationship

years after that.

He's good for me and…

I'm very lucky to have him
in my life,

him and his family.

[all chuckling]

Hey, don't bite
her legs. [laughs]

[all laughing]

[Bec] They've never come
to a fight live,

they've always watched it on TV.

Kind of didn't like 'em coming.

When they were a bit younger,

I don't think it's something
that you need to see.

You know, your mum and dad
getting punched in the face

isn't probably the nicest thing.

But now, they're a bit older

and they can comprehend it
a bit more.

[announcer] From team Rodriguez,
it's Adrian Rodriguez!

[Bec] Come on, come on!

Go again!

Get him right. Right, yes!

Beautiful!

So, Adrian even said he heard
Enson cheering for him

and it really, like,
it uplifted him

and he was like, "I'm not gonna
lose in front of my boys."

[Enson] Yeah,
it was a nice fight.

I got a bit worried
that he was gonna lose

'cause he was getting hit a bit.

[Bec chuckling] It happens.

-It is a fist fight.
-[all laugh]

Yeah, they came in the ring,
got photos.

Actually, we have
to find those photos.

We have to find photos

of you guys in the ring
with Adrian.

[Adrian] That was a cool photo.

It had the whole team
and whole family there.

[Bec] Yeah.

Being a father figure
for both Zake and Enson…

it's rewarding,

it's scary at the same time.

Obviously, you wanna make sure

that you give 'em
the right role model.

Obviously, as a stepfather,

there's things to overcome,

but I've been in their lives
for so long,

you know, they do see me as dad.

And so, that makes it
a lot easier

and they're two beautiful kids,
so it's very, very rewarding.

[crowd cheering]

-[commentator] Kicked in… Oh!
-[all exclaiming]

[commentator] The fists
are like…

[commentator 2]
That's where it's at.

I fought on the local scene
in Australia.

I had five, I think five
professional fights here

and ran out of opponents.

There weren't many girls
fighting back then.

That was when Ronda Rousey
came on the scene.

And she convinced Dana White
to let women into the UFC.

I remember watching
her first fight on the UFC

and it was like,
I got goosebumps.

You know, I never thought
I'd see women fight

in the UFC.

So, yeah,
that was a really big…

really big milestone, that one.

Bec's call up to Invicta
was quite a surprise.

We were ecstatic, obviously,

to get the call up,
the opportunity.

And when I got the call to say,

"Should I take the title fight
against Carla?"

"Absolutely," I said,
"We should."

I thought that we might be
able to overwhelm her.

I'm the underdog
and I like being the underdog.

It's fun.
I like proving people wrong.

I think going against
an opponent

that has nothing to lose

can sometimes be
the most dangerous.

[crowd cheering]

One day I got a phone call.

And I was like,
"This voice sounds familiar."

And it was Dana White.

He's like, "What's up, Bec?"

I was like,
"Hi, what's going on?"

And then he said,
"We've decided to bring in

the straw-weight division
in the UFC

and we've decided to select you

along with, I think it was
15, 16 other women

to go on the Ultimate Fighter."

It was a huge shock.

At that point that
was the pinnacle for women.

It was like a whole
bunch of feelings.

Obviously, nervous.

I didn't know what I was
getting myself into.

I signed up
for a reality TV show

where I was away from my kids
for seven weeks,

locked up in a house
with all these girls

that I'm getting lined up
to fight against.

So, it was a bit daunting,

but it was exciting.

I was actually visiting
my mom in Tasmania

when I got the phone call.

I still remember it to this day.

I was at her old house

and I got a phone call,

and I walked outside
into the driveway.

And after I got off the phone,

I walk back here with
the biggest smile on my face.

My mom's like, "Who was that?"

[chuckling] And I'm like,
"That was Dana White

and I'm fucking,
I'm fighting for the UFC."

You know, it just blew me away.

She always had aspirations

that she was going
to be the best.

And I just thought,
"No, I don't know about that."

But then I didn't know
a lot about the sport either.

When she got accepted

into the Tough House
for the UFC,

I thought, "Oh, that's
pretty good." [chuckles]

And yes, she did very well.

I mean, her first fight
in America was for a belt.

[Bec] My first fight
on the actual UFC Fight Night,

it was pretty hectic
to be honest.

It was a really hard,
hard fight.

I thought I won the decision,

but I lost.

Um, the girl I fought,

I didn't like at all
at the time,

so there was a lot of bad blood

and it felt really good
to punch her in the face.

[laughs]

I'm sure she felt the same way.

But we hugged it out at the end.

I think that's the good thing
about fighting,

is, you know, we go in there

and we could go into
this fight with bad blood.

But we're both in there
trying to do the same thing,

so you gain that respect
for each other.

But it was a good fight.

My first win in the UFC

was a UFC Fight Night
in Adelaide.

It was really cool to be
on Aussie soil

and get my first UFC win.

It was very emotional.

I left my kids for eight weeks.

I really put my heart and soul
into this fight camp

and to come out with the win
really topped it off.

It was a roller coaster
in the UFC,

and I won some and I lost some.

The highs were really high
and the lows are really low.

It's one thing to lose,

it's another thing to lose
on the world stage.

And then, going on social media

and getting reminded
every day that you lost.

It's also amazing to win
on that TV as well.

And it's the nature
of the beast.

Sometimes you lose
and sometimes you win.

I feel like that is the sport,

and it's how you
come back from it.

And I've definitely grown
as a fighter and a person

dealing with losses
and dealing with wins.

When I first started
competing in MMA,

I was fighting
in the straw-weight division,

which was 52 kilos.

And I think that weight division
really suited me at that time.

I was still a young woman,

I was 22-years-old.

So I was making that weight
quite easily.

But as I got older,
I got more mature.

I started putting on more muscle

and things got harder to drop.

And add on to that,

I got a thyroid disease,

so that kind of just threw
another spanner in the works.

And those are few things,
you know,

that came to mind

when I realized I lost
the love for the sport.

Or not the love for it,

the vision of why
I was doing it.

It was getting to the point

where I was cutting like
eight kilos in water to fight.

I was passing out
cutting weight,

and then the next day
I was meant to fight

to my 100 percent performance.

And it just…
this spiraled out of control.

And so, a sport like MMA

isn't a sport that you wanna
lose your direction in,

or lose your love in,

because you're getting
punched in the face,

you're gonna get hurt out there.

[Mary] When she went
to do mixed martial arts,

that was bad enough.

And then, when you think
it can't get any worse,

she does the bare knuckle.

And I just thought,
"Oh, my goodness."

[Bec] It was all new to me
and I started…

I went down that rabbit hole
of what is bare knuckle.

Like, I knew boxing
originated without gloves,

but I didn't know the extent,

I didn't know the history
behind it.

And it was now legalized again.

So, that was cool and exciting
to kind of, you know,

get that in and nerd out,

and start researching
and looking into it.

I felt like the sport
was made for me,

so I was excited.

Still excited about
this new chapter

I was about to go down.

I love bare knuckle,

I really enjoy it,
I think it's a great sport.

[Bec] It's bare knuckle,

so my knuckles have to be bare.

So, basically, we wrap
the wrist and the thumb,

secure those in,

and leave the knuckles bare.

There's no wraps,
there's no tape,

there's no gauze
over your actual knuckles.

So you can see the knuckles
coming for you.

I was actually really excited.

[commentator] It is our
co-main event of the night.

Women's featherweight.

Bec Rawlings versus Alma Garcia.

[Bec] It was a new sport.

It was…

All I had to worry about
was two hands. [chuckles]

And coming from MMA,

you got so many aspects
to worry about.

I was honestly so calm.

I was like, at peace

with what was gonna happen,

and I was just so confident
in my skill set.

Ladies, to the line!

[Bec] It's a cool feeling.

I feel like that's how
it should be.

I feel like that's how
you should be fighting,

you should be at peace
and relaxed

and calm and confident.

[commentator] Stepping into
the pocket and trading.

Big shots now!

Garcia trying to fire back.

More straight punches
from Bec Rawlings.

Uppercut.

[Bec] It was a good fight.

I dropped her.

[audience cheering]

I rearranged her face. [laughs]

[commentator] I'll tell you,
there's a lot of swelling

under the left eye
of Alma Garcia.

[commentator 2] Yeah, she's
looking really bad right now.

[Bec] She was tough, but yes,

I out-skilled her
in every aspect.

[announcer] By TKO
doctor's stoppage,

"Rowdy" Bec Rawlings!

[Bec] My first
bare knuckle fight,

we really just stuck
to the fundamentals.

And then,
for the Britain Heart fight,

we added in a few
more skill sets.

[commentator] Both fighters look
intent on a ferocious start.

[Bec] We worked on a lot
of specifics for Britain Heart,

and we knew she was going
to be open

and I had to keep my cool.

When I don't have
a clear head out there,

I never fight to my potential,

so it was bringing
that mental…

that mental control
and keeping my cool in there.

Britain Heart was tough.

You know, I think every girl
I fought is tough.

The fight before
the fight is hard,

so anyone that steps
into that ring

has already got my respect.

[audience cheering]

I think any girl
that goes out there,

and trains their asses off,

and makes it
to that Fight Night,

and puts puts their body
on the line

in front of the world…

[chuckles] …is tough.

You've got to give them respect.

[crowd cheering]

[announcer] The winner
by split decision…

-and still…
-[audience cheering]

[indistinct]

Bare Knuckle Women's
Featherweight champion,

"Rowdy" Bec Rawlings!

[Bec] This is an
awesome feeling.

Britain put on a great fight.

You win this fight by being
aggressive, not by running,

so it is what it is.

But still the queen
of Bare Knuckle.

And thank you, Britain,
for an amazing fight.

[upbeat music]

We're a few weeks out
for flying off to Mexico

to defend my belt.

And I'm the current
world champion,

so there's a lot resting on it.

Sometimes, as a trainer
and a fighter,

you just hit it off.

And Bec's actually
very similar to me

and her sense of humor
is very similar

in the way we are as people.

So, when we started
to work together,

it was an easy mix.

Just gonna wrap my hands
and then start to warm up.

And I'm gonna just do that.

[laughs]

This is what we've created,

our fake skipping over here.

[laughs]

We just imagine there's
a rope in our hands. [laughs]

Yes, so, we do that,
what April's doing there.

And then, I shadow-box.

And… Um…

Normally, I'd hit a few rounds
on the bag,

but I think I'm just gonna
do pads with my coach, John,

after he moves around
with April.

And then, I'll be doing
some hand drills.

Just working on building
strength and power right now.

I'm sitting down my punches,

and then you up the ante
closer to the fight,

and that's when you break
your body down a little bit.

It's like playing a game
with your body,

how far you can push it,

and then rest it
and then push it again.

Try and get that right balance

of not breaking
your body down too much

and getting it
to its peak performance.

[Malcolm] What you noticed
about Bec

compared to some
other fighters was that

when it got really tough,

there seemed to be
a need to fight back,

a reason to continue

when it was uncomfortable.

And that makes
a fighter stand out.

Everyone always says
you learn more from a loss

than you do a win,

and it sounds so cliche,
but you do.

I've gone out there
and won in the first round

and I really took
nothing from that.

But it's the losses
that you learn from

and you grow from,

and that's in all
facets of life,

not just in sport.

It's when you get knocked down,

it's how you get up
and how you deal with it.

[upbeat music]

When I'm fighting,

I guess, it's very strategic.

It's definitely a lot you rely
on with your muscle memory,

what you're doing
in the gym every day.

Especially, when you get tired,

you go back to what you know.

I don't go out into a fight
with, you know,

the mindset of,

"Oh, I can take damage,
it's fine."

I definitely changed
my fighting style

since when I first
started fighting,

where I did take a lot of damage

and I could feel it.

You know, I could feel
myself getting dumber.

[laughs]

So, yeah, I had to re-evaluate
how I trained

and how I want to be around
with my smarts and my wits

for my kids.

So now, I do train a lot

how not to take damage,

keep my hands up, move my head,

things like that.

It is really hard juggling kids

and the fight life,

but fortunately, you know,

I've only known this fight
business since I've had them.

I didn't have the…

the opportunity to fight
before I had the kids.

So, this is all I've known.

I have a schedule.

We have it down pat,
kids know what's up.

They love…
like they're gym babies.

[engine starts]

I normally come along.

And now that they're into
jiu jitsu and boxing,

they train while I'm training.

-[Enson] Now, stretch first.
-Yeah.

Hit the bag.

Then, maybe do some
jiu jitsu with Zake.

-Nice one.
-[Adrian] Right.

[Bec] You lost your pad!

[all laughing]

Fight that grip.

Get his hands and pull it down,

like a lever.

That's it.

Try and bring that first jab
back to your face.

You know, jab, back, jab again.

So, you don't…

Yes, that's it.

The first name I got tattooed
on me was Zake's.

And I knew never knew
at that point

that I was gonna have, you know,
another son on the other side.

And I'd have all this wrapping
around my neck,

but yeah, I got Zake
a few months after I had him.

And then, same was Enson.

And then, it was only
a few years later

that I decided to get the heart

which I think, you know,
represents for me,

it's the heart
with the key and…

like they are my heart.

They're my everything
and they hold the key to that.

That's what it means to me.

We're off to Mexico.

It's gonna be a big week.

I still have to prove that
I'm the Bare Knuckle queen.

It's really cool to be
in Mexico.

I feel like you get a lot
more support here.

Everyone loves the sport.

And I think the Bare Knuckle
aspect of it all

kind of gets a lot
of people's respect.

[David] She's unbelievable.

She's just, she's everything
I really want in a fighter,

but I liked her because
she loves to promote,

and some of that… her voice

that really gets people
to look at her

and to be attracted
to her, I think.

More so than just the fighting.

And she is a pretty girl,

but take all that
out of the equation,

she can fight like a man.

[Bec] My opponent
is really tough.

Cecilia Flores.

She's a Mexican local girl

from Guadalajara, I think
that's how you say it.

I think it's gonna be a really
good fight, a fun fight.

And I think that's why they
kind of match this…

match this fight
because they know

Cecilia is gonna
come out and try

and bring the fight to me,

and I'm gonna do
the same to her.

So, expectations… Obviously,
I think I'm gonna win.

I'm not gonna go into a fight
thinking I'm gonna lose.

But I know it's going to be
a tough fight.

I know she's not going to be
an easy, you know,

someone that I'm just gonna
put away in the first round.

It's gonna be tough,

but that's the fights
I like anyway.

Aw, little cuties!

[Bec] It's been two days
getting over jet lag.

Um… when I first got here,

it didn't feel like
it was fight week,

but today I woke up and it feels
like fight week.

I'm motivated.

And getting ready to fight.

You know, I've switched over
to fight mode today.

So, yes, I was kinda like,
lounging around,

and today,
it's time for business.

[exhilarating music]

-Hi, John.
-[chuckle softly]

[Bec] So, I fell down
the stairs.

It was really wet,
it was like raining really bad,

and I had my flip flops on,

and we were going to the gym
and I just missed a step,

and like, legit
bounced down two steps

and rolled my ankle.

So, it's like, really bruised
and swollen in here.

This all… it's just a sprain.

It's like, nothing major.

It looks worse than what it is.

Oh, she was lucky. [chuckles]

Could have been a lot worse.

But we looked
after it straight away.

So, lots of ice worth.

Got the blood to the surface,

so it's going really well.

It'll be all right
by the end of the week.

It's just quite annoying
having to…

Like normally, fight week,
it's like you're feeling fresh

and ready to train and you just
want to get in there,

and then this one, like,
when you injure yourself

it's like, fucking something,

that you have to
work your way back.

It's just annoying.

Ow, mother… He just needs
an excuse to hit me.

[announcer] All right!

Buenas tardes,
ladies and gentlemen.

Good afternoon and welcome

to the magnificent…

Oh, my goodness,
it is so beautiful here

at the Grand Oasis Hotel

here in Cancun,
Quintana Roo, Mexico!

Making her way to the scale,

she holds a combined
combat sports record

of 14 professional fights.

-[crowd cheering]
-[announcer] Cecilia…

Ulloa Flores!

[crowd cheering]

[announcer] And next up,
ladies and gentlemen,

this individual
needs no introduction

in the Bare Knuckle world.

She holds a professional

Bare Knuckles record,
undefeated at two and O,

fighting out of Brisbane,
Queensland, Australia,

she is the defending

Women's Police
Gazette Diamond featherweight

Bare Knuckle champion
of the world.

Here is "Rowdy" Bec Rawlings!

[all applauding]

[Bec] Yeah, fighting Cecilia,

not really knowing
much about her,

it's kinda annoying, obviously,
not being able to study her,

but I don't really care, like,

even if I was to study
her fights,

it's not gonna change
what I'm going to do.

The unknown, I guess,

it makes it a little bit harder

to get 100 percent prepared
for a certain style,

but insane that you think you've
got someone in their style

and they change
the game plan up anyway.

So, I prefer just going in there

with what I want to do,

and not really focus
on what they're gonna do.

Yeah, the way Bec's feeling
is really good.

We made weight well.

We've had a good day
with weight-in well.

We're hydrated,
we've got a meal then served.

It's good.
Mentally, she's great.

Just a matter of now
getting some rest.

And she'll be ready
to go tomorrow.

She'll feel a million bucks
by tomorrow and ready to go.

[all applauding]

I thought I was getting
out of it,

and I was like, "Phew."

'Cause I suck at talking.

I do my talking
with my fist. [chuckles]

I think people get
the wrong idea of what love is.

You get confused,
the line gets blurred.

And you're mistaking love
for something else.

And it's confusing.

He convinced me that

he was going to get
on his medication.

That he was gonna change,

he was gonna do right by us.

And he was gonna try.

And he said…

"We were married."

"I can't just give up
on our marriage like that."

And that he was
struggling mentally,

and that he was gonna get help

and see someone
and get on medication.

And that I needed to come back
and support him.

And… I eventually
went back to him.

He showed signs
of wanting to change.

And I think it was all just
a game to him.

It didn't take long
for him to go back to…

to the games.

He just found
different ways to do it.

Instead of physically
hitting me,

he would just destroy the house,

destroy my things.

Find other ways
to get to me, I guess.

And so, I basically
kept up the facade

that it had stopped…

out of embarrassment.

I didn't want them to know
that I went back

and I let it continue.

- You have to get up.
-[Adrian] Stop talking.

-Get up.
-No.

-No!
-[giggling]

-You have to get up. Come on.
-[grunts]

I'm hungry!

And here we are, fight day.

Chilly and I try not
to think about the fight.

this far from the fight.

You know, it's,
"I've got all day."

So, you keep thinking
about fighting and…

you're wasting too much
mental energy.

So, I'm very chill, relaxed.

I'm just gonna chill out
at my hotel

and probably have a nap later.

Get a good lunch and…

and then, I'll switch on
to fight mode.

You know, when we get in that
shuttle bus to go to the venue,

that's when I switch on.

[man] I can't wait
for this five minutes.

I can not.

I don't have words
to describe how excited I am.

Open field.

[exhilarating music]

Hey, it's on, man.

Outdoor and nothing better
than Mother Nature.

You know what I'm saying?

It's the real jungle
right here, baby.

[Bec] I feel like if I go into
the fight calm and relaxed

and with a clean mind,

I'm always gonna fight my best.

When I fight with emotion,

I'm not so good,

I get a little wild
and reckless.

So that's probably the one thing
I'm going to be telling myself

when I go out there,

is just to keep calm

and go in there
with a clear mind

and just do what I know
I can do.

[Adrian] On the fight day,

I don't really give Bec
too much advice.

I kind of just, you know,
go over things that,

you know, that she's
gone over in her camp

and just to reiterate
things that she already knows,

just make sure
they're fresh in her head

and just help her
wherever she needs.

I'm not too much
of an advice guy.

[Bec] I have
trust in my training

and in my skill set,

and if it comes down to it,
I've always got that heart.

That heart has gotten me through
a lot of shit in my life,

so I know that's gonna
get me through this fight

and more to come.

You're Latino, like, come on.

[announcer speaking Spanish]

[tense music]

[announcer speaking Spanish]

[announcer] By the red corner,

she wears the proud
colours of Mexico!

Come on, come on, come on!

Let's go, let's go!

The final straw for me was…

[crowd cheering]

[Bec] …I was scared
for the kids' lives.

He pulled a knife
out of the drawer

in the kitchen

and held it up,

and said he was gonna kill me,

the kids, and then kill himself.

[crowd cheering]

[Bec] I had to get
these kids out.

They were now at risk.

I waited for Dan
to go to sleep.

I woke up really early.

And I just got a few things
for the kids

and packed them into the car.

And I just left.

It was terrifying.

I didn't know what he would do

if he woke up finding me
trying to leave with them.

But, you know, once I reversed
out of the driveway

and I knew he wasn't
gonna catch me,

it was a relief.

But I didn't know
if I was gonna stay away.

And as soon as
I got to my mum's,

and my mum asked me
what was going on,

I knew I had to tell her.

I just knew if I told her
I would never go back,

because I knew she would
never let me.

When she finally left him,

it was a huge relief.

And when she actually told us

what some of the things
that he'd done,

which we didn't know about…

I just couldn't believe it.

I just don't know how she stayed
as long as she did.

I think she probably
wanted that idea

of the happy family,

and the parents,
and the children,

which she, obviously,
didn't have.

[Bec] It was really hard
because a part of me

wanted to keep
the family together.

I felt like the kids
needed a dad,

and to break that family up,

myself coming
from a broken home,

it wasn't easy.

So I thought
that we're better off…

in it than away from it,

which is so far from the truth.

So, it took, you know,

a long time to realize that

they were better off without
that monster in their life.

[uplifting music]

[Bec] It's that stupid stigma
where everyone thinks

that you have to have
your parents together

to be happy.

[Mary] But once she had
accepted that

that was not going to happen,

she was able to move on.

[uplifting music]

[Bec] It appears to me now
that they were always at risk.

You know, seeing that happen
to their mom,

the things that they've seen.

I know Zake remembers
some things,

and that's not fair

for a kid to have to see that
at that age.

So, that was my turning point.

I had to get them out.

It wasn't just to save my life,
it was to save them.

To win the championship belt

and to have that around my waist

and awarded to me,

and to make history
and be the first woman ever

to win a Bare Knuckle
World Championship…

It's hard to put it into words.

It was an amazing…
it's an amazing feeling now.

At that point in time,

it just, it didn't feel real.

It felt…

Yeah, it was a crazy feeling.

It really didn't sink in
until I got home.

I filed for divorce

a year after we had split.

I don't know how he took it.

He never fought it.

I went to court
and he wasn't there.

So, it all went smoothly,
I guess,

because he never fought it.

There was a young girl

that unfortunately
fell into the same…

hands of Dan Hyatt.

She was young when they met,

she worked for him
in some capacity,

and he groomed her.

Her mum actually contacted me

because she knew how vocal
I'd been about the abuse

and trying to warn people
to stay away from him.

And she was frightened
for her daughter's life.

And she reached out
to me on tips

to try and get her away
from him, I guess.

She was a lot like me
at that age.

She was rebellious and wanted
to do what she wanted to do,

so her mum was distraught,

didn't know how to get
her away from this monster.

'Cause she knew
he was a monster.

[sirens blaring]

When Dan was finally convicted,

I was happy he was finally
behind bars.

I was happy that he was outed.

He could no longer go on
and abuse more girls.

It was like a weight
lifted off, I guess…

for it to all finally
come to light.

It took a lot of time
to move on completely.

A long time, you know,
there was a lot of triggers.

I probably went a year
without sleep.

I had security cameras
put up around my house

because I was afraid he was
gonna come in and kill us.

I had put up walls,

I never… I didn't let anyone
get close to me emotionally.

And that's family,
friends, boyfriends.

It took a long time to get

to the point where
I can trust people again.

But I've moved on
completely from it.

It doesn't control my life,

it doesn't define me,

it doesn't shape what
I'm doing now

or who I am today.

It is something
that happened to me,

but it isn't me any longer.

[squealing]

[Jacqui] I'm very proud of
Rebecca for what she's achieved.

Like, she's managed to pull
herself out of the shit,

pull herself out of a very
frightening, crappy situation.

And earn a living
to raise two kids

and live a happy life,
I suppose.

[Malcolm] Think I'm lucky
to know

who Bec is.

Lucky to know
that she's larrikin,

but she's fun.

And she's not what a lot
of people think she is.

I'm fortunate that
I get to know her.

I'm really, really proud of her.

Even though I don't like
the fighting,

I'm proud of what
she's achieved.

I'm proud of her as a mother.

[Adrian] She's a hero to them.

They can't miss an opportunity

to brag about their mum.

And so they should,
their mum is a hero.

[Mary] What's most inspiring
about Rebecca's story

is the fact that no
matter how hard you fall,

you can always
get back up again.

You can always try

and change the course
of your life,

because that's what
you have to do

after domestic violence.

[Malcolm] Advice to someone else

in a situation like
what Bec went through?

My advice would be…

Talk to someone,

talk to your teacher,

talk to your coach,

talk to your neighbour,

talk to someone.

[Mary] She had to dig deep
to keep going forward,

and that's the message that
she wants to give other girls

that are in the same situation,

that you can turn
your life around,

you can find the strength
to move on

and move past it.

She's certainly an inspiration.

[Bec] I'd like to raise
more awareness.

I'd like to share my story

in hopes that it helps
other people.

I'd like to give people
the tools and the skills to,

if they will ever find
themselves in my situation,

to be able to get out of it

or to never fall
into this situation.

And basically, just…

get people to just love
who they are.

Be strong, be loud,

be authentic.

I don't think I can
change the world. [chuckles]

I think the world
needs a lot of fixing.

But, you know, I just want…

I want people
to find their voice

and find their strength
and their self worth.

That's my biggest thing,

is learning to love yourself

and learning to want
more for yourself.

And don't settle for less.

Because I bet, like,
the happier you are,

the happier you're gonna
make people around you,

and it's just a cycle that
it feeds on to other people.

What you give out in the world,

they're gonna give out as well.

So, definitely, self worth,

and just know that
you deserve better,

and go out there and get it.

Don't go sit
and wait for it to come.

Go out there and get it.

[Bec] Whoo-hoo!

Say something to mummy.

Hi Mummy. I love you.

You're beautiful!