Ginny Fuchs Interview: Fight Prep, Mental Health & Matchroom Boxing Plans

Hi, Terry for no-smote sport with Ginny Fuchs

First of all, how do you feel about being on the matrim card, obviously a big promoter in the US and the UK and other areas

I'm really excited. You know, I've been on a top-ranked card and a boxer card, so it's, you know, I've been on two big cards for my only two pro fives and to be on another one big card, a different promotional company

is awesome, you know. So, yeah, I'm very excited to finally be on the matchroom card

And do you hope to continue working with Eddie, maybe even sign with him

Yes, oh, for sure. That is kind of my plan. I want to put on a great performance

I want to, you know, bring all, you know, I'm from, I went to Louisiana State University

So it's a big university here in Louisiana. So I'm hoping to bring my whole LSU Purple and Gold fan

here to the fight. So, you know, I hope Matrim will see that and see the support I have

And hopefully they will sign me. And obviously, you've worked with top rank and they've got a good

commitment to women's boxing. But do you think Matron's promotion of women's boxing is in a league

of its own potentially? Well, it's obvious that they have signed a lot of women compared to top

to compare to top rank. So I think, yeah, matchroom is promoting female boxing a lot more than

any other promotional company. And how was it fighting in London? Because that was on the Shields

Marshall Card, historic event, not just for our Brits, but also the world of female boxing

and boxing as a whole. Yeah, no, I loved fighting in the UK. I keep telling people that it was

so different fighting over there. The support over there was tremendous. I got a lot of

love you don't you don't find that here in america we wouldn't have the same support and turnout here

in america because we're competing with so many other leagues like the nfl the NBA the baseball

you know in the UK I know they love you know they they more with boxing and soccer so I would love to fight in the UK again and a bit of a sideways step but I know that you obviously a mental health advocate you have that suffer from anxiety and also have the condition OCD

I listened to the Keeping the Flame podcast. I really enjoyed that

And I know that when you're boxing, that's when you're most in control of your OCD

So how is that in terms of being in the ring and having that sort of focus

Well, yeah, I always tell people like boxing is my therapy. Because when I'm in the boxing gym, training, obviously when I'm in a fight

my thoughts are only focused on, you know, what's in front of me, my opponent

doing my best in my boxing winning or whatnot. And of course I'll have my OCD thoughts kind of creep in

but it's so much easier for me to just ignore them or say, okay, bye

when I'm training or in a fight where in comparison when I'm just, you know, doing my day-to-day

whatever, you know, when I'm at my house, you know, in that other kind of environment

those OCD thoughts are way more, they're stronger and I can't just bypass them

And I can't just, it's hard for me to ignore them and move on. I'm kind of stuck

I get kind of stuck more. But with my boxing, it's like my OCD is almost like my OCD doesn't even

exist and you can ask people who train with me in the gym and stuff because they would have

no clue that I had OCD because they don't see it in the boxing gym because boxing is my

passion and it can I say it trumps my OCD thoughts and with that knowing that does that and being

an advocate as well would you encourage other people with OCD to take up boxing

Well, if that's what becomes their passion or their interest, I always tell people, you know, athletics have always helped me to move forward and fight my OCD

So I always encourage people to find that passion or that you know that value in life that they really love more than than that getting trapped in those OCD thoughts So if it is boxing yes but whatever it can be for anybody that what I encourage them to find

And when they do, they'll understand and see like, okay, I still struggle with this OCD

but I have this thing that can help me move forward every day

and fight through it and know that I'll be okay. And I know there's still a couple of things I want to talk about, but before I get into that

what do you make of your opponent this weekend? And obviously, she doesn't have the same like golden gloves you compete and you've got that

amateur pedigree. You can always fall back on that in fights. But she has got more experience in terms of rounds

This is your first eight-rounder, and she's been that distance before. So what do you make of the whole matchup

Well, I learned, I think, two weeks ago that I fought her in the amateurs

I didn't even realize this. Yeah, my friend looked it up and she goes, you know, you fought her in the amateurs and stopped her

I was like, oh, no, I did not know this. So apparently we've already matched up in the past

So obviously, that was a couple of years ago at a nationals

And, yeah, she's been professional way longer than I have and has more fight

So she has experience in that aspect, but I also think, you know, my experience in amateurs

and the levels I went to in the amateurs can outmatch her experience in the pros

I know she's a tough girl and she's going to come forward and put that pressure on

So obviously that's what I've been training for and I'll be ready for it

And I guess the last two things I want to ask. I mean, I apologize if you've been asked this to death, but you've got the nickname

Captain Sukes on here and you called the pirate in the ring. What's it all about

So I grew up on the water. Like since I could remember, my parents are big boating people and

water people. So since I can remember, I was always on the boat, always out on the water

And, you know, everybody's heard of the pirate stories and the pirate life and, you know

the kind of outlaw freedom that they have And that all I always been drawn to that and always just kind of like like that um style of life I should say and I said and I always feel like that fits like how what I see

life should be um and then in 2016 I was I became captain of the US USA Olympic boxing team for the

Rio team and so I would always lead the warmups and I would always kind of have fun with it

because, you know, we've been, think about it. We're training for the Olympics

So we've been, you know, living with each other, training three times, two times a day

going to all these tournaments. So, you know, kind of gets kind of a, I want to say boring, but just mundane

So I try to kind of make fun. And so I started yelling pirate commands during the warmup for an exercise we were supposed to do

And then to get, you know, the team hyped. So I'd be like, all right, guys, you are my crew

We're on a voice to get the gold. let's conquer this, let's conquer every battle, every battleship that comes along

We're going to take down. And they kind of, of course, they thought it was a little porny, but they loved it at the same time

And so now they just call me the pirate captain. So when I still see my teammates, that's what they call me

And we used to have multi-nation training camps with other countries. And they, and I would do the same thing

And they loved it. So everybody just around the world knows me as the pirate

and Captain Fuchs has just kind of transitioned into my pro career

And lastly, did you have a quick-fire prediction for Pro Gray in the main event

Yeah, I see, I don't really, honestly, I haven't really watched his opponent that he's fighting

But I know Regis Wee's trained with the same straighting condition coach, and I know his punch output is high, and his conditioning is in great shape

So I feel like he can stop this guy in the early round

If anything, maybe fifth, six. But I think it's going to be a knockout

You know what? I'll tell you something off camera in a minute. But thanks very much for your time in terms of my prediction

because that is pretty much spot on my prediction. Yep. So thanks very much for your time

I'll speak to you briefly off the camera about that way. Okay. No. Thank you