Rachel Beauchamp Ram At The Fights interview on SFC 6 donation

In the Rachel Beauchamp Ram At The Fights interview on MILLIONS, the Greensboro fighter said she would donate her SFC 6 fight check to help pay for opponent Jordan Edwards’s mother’s cancer treatment. Beauchamp also told Ram At The Fights that Edwards has the stronger striking, explained why she is preparing to grapple, and laid out plans to compete in more combat sports.

What did Rachel Beauchamp say about Jordan Edwards and her mother?

Rachel Beauchamp said she wants her November 6 fight with Jordan Edwards to help fund treatment for Edwards’s mother. She plans to give the family her fight check, is asking ticket buyers to use Edwards’s name, and is encouraging donations to a GoFundMe campaign for treatment in Mexico.

How Beauchamp got to know Edwards

Beauchamp watched Edwards fight in December while attending one of her own fights. She said Edwards’s coach and mother then cornered her because she had traveled without a coach. That encounter gave Beauchamp a personal connection to the family before they were matched as opponents.

She described Edwards as an excellent fighter and said Edwards has the advantage in striking. Even as Beauchamp prepares to face her, she said she respects anyone willing to step in and fight.

The ticket appeal and fight check

Beauchamp asked people buying tickets to put them under Jordan Edwards’s name and to donate to her mother’s GoFundMe. She said the family needed about $16,000 for treatment in Mexico. That amount was Beauchamp’s estimate, not a confirmed fundraising total.

Beauchamp made her own commitment clear:

I'm also gonna donate my fight check after a fight

She said she would hand over the money if paid in cash, or sign over the check if that is how she is paid. For Beauchamp, the aid and the fight are not in conflict: both athletes have agreed to compete, and she said that deserves respect.

What is Rachel Beauchamp’s next fight and upcoming schedule?

Rachel Beauchamp’s next discussed fight is against Jordan Edwards at SFC 6 on November 6. She also described a grappling match before that fight and a boxing bout scheduled for December 12 in Utah. Beauchamp does not regard the grappling match as a warm-up; she takes it because she wants to compete often.

Beauchamp said that, if both her body and the commission allowed it, she would fight every day. She likes the pace and direct opposition of a match rather than treating one contest simply as preparation for another.

That appetite shapes her routine. She said she spends most of her waking hours at the gym and, when away from it, is often traveling to a fight or competing. The scheduled Utah boxing bout is another part of the range of combat sports she is pursuing.

How does Rachel Beauchamp manage training and recovery?

Rachel Beauchamp said two coaches work with her, while a strength and conditioning coach also manages her diet plan. The plan changes weekly according to her activity and target weight. After training, she uses facilities attached to her martial arts gym, including a hot tub, cold plunge and massage chairs.

The gym and recovery routine

The martial arts space has a cage, open mats and a room with bags and mirrors. An attached fitness area gives her room for strength work, while the facility also has a pool and sauna. Beauchamp said she uses the sauna before training to loosen up and moves between the hot tub and cold plunge afterward.

She singled out the massage chairs in a separate dark room. When her hands swell while preparing for bare-knuckle fighting, she said the chairs can massage her fingers and wrists. Her strength and conditioning coach checks her exercise technique as well as adjusting the food plan when her weight changes.

The classes Beauchamp coaches

Training is not her only work at the gym. Beauchamp coaches women’s circuit training in the mornings and a women-only kickboxing class. She also teaches a class for children ages three to five, whom she called her favorites, and said she was preparing to start a co-ed beginners’ class.

When did Rachel Beauchamp start training in martial arts?

Rachel Beauchamp said her first karate class was at boarding school when she was 13, but she did not stay with it. She dates the start of her sustained martial arts training to January 2018 and said she had been fighting for longer than she had been formally training.

Beauchamp said she left the karate class because she did not trust the instructor, who claimed to have fought and beaten Chuck Norris. Beauchamp did not believe that claim. Her account separates an early introduction to karate from the later point when she began training consistently.

She also said she has been fighting since she was nine. Beauchamp did not present that childhood experience as formal gym training; it was her explanation for why competing feels more familiar to her than simply watching fights.

Which combat sports does Rachel Beauchamp want to compete in next?

Rachel Beauchamp wants to try Lethwei and said she and BKB fighter Cat Connor would like to face each other under that ruleset. She also named bare-knuckle boxing, bare-knuckle MMA, judo, a pure wrestling match and sumo among the contests she still wants to pursue.

A possible fight with Cat Connor

Beauchamp said her name had been put forward with Left Way Fighting Championships and that Connor wanted the fight too. She said she would also face Connor in Muay Thai or bare-knuckle boxing, but they needed someone to arrange a bout. No date or signed matchup was announced.

Lethwei particularly interests Beauchamp because it is bare-knuckle and permits a broad range of strikes. She said she was trying to travel to Myanmar to fight. Headbutts are not entirely new to her: Beauchamp said she has had six combat sambo fights, a ruleset in which she said they are allowed.

Judo, wrestling and sumo

Beauchamp trains judo but said she had not yet felt ready for a judo match. She also wants a wrestling-only contest and said she expected to do a sumo match soon. Those ambitions sit alongside her boxing date in Utah and her stated goal of trying the combat styles she has not yet contested.

Why does Rachel Beauchamp plan to take Jordan Edwards down at SFC 6?

Rachel Beauchamp said her best route against Jordan Edwards is to get the fight to the ground because she considers Edwards the better striker. A WFC fight she watched from cageside reinforced that assessment: Beauchamp recalled Edwards catching a kick, driving her opponent into the cage and landing a damaging elbow.

The WFC elbow Beauchamp remembers

Beauchamp said the elbow knocked out her opponent’s bottom teeth. She remembered an image of Edwards with blood on her elbow and said the sight stayed with her. Her description of the matchup was blunt: fans should expect strong striking from Edwards and her own determined effort to avoid it with takedowns.

Watching fights away from the gym

Despite her interest in competing, Beauchamp said she does not regularly watch UFC, BKFC or other fights unless someone she knows is involved. She spends so much time training that, away from the gym, she prefers not to think about fighting. Watching Edwards was an exception with direct relevance to her own upcoming bout.

Who is Rachel Beauchamp?

Rachel “Unbreakable” Beauchamp is a professional bare-knuckle and Muay Thai flyweight fighter based in Greensboro, North Carolina. She has a Muay Thai background and competes across combat sports while continuing to develop her skills.