MMA - Nicola Fearnley

Name: Nicola Fearnley
MMA Record: Kickboxing 6 wins 1 loss 1 draw 2KOS
Trainer: Richard Smith
Weight: 105-125
Home Town: Leeds, UK
Fighting Style: Kickboxing
Fighting Out Of: Bad Company Gym, Leeds, UK This is the gym where World
Muay Thai Champion, Lisa Houghton-Smith trains.
Web Site: http://www.badcompany.co.uk

Shannon Logan - Female Fighter

This is female MMA fighter Shannon Logan.
This five foot six, 130 pound female grappler is trained not only in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, but in Tae Kwon Do, Kickboxing, Karate, Muay Thai and grappling.
She was trained by Renzo Gracie, Nestor Marte, Phil Nurse and Fujiwara.
Along with Debi Purcell, she was one of the fourteen women that competed in one of the first (if not the first) all-woman’s Mixed Martial Arts event on April 13th, 2002.
Shannon was also the first female to fight inside an octagonal ring at RF 2 - Reality Fighting 2 at the Wildwood Convention Center in New Jersey where she lost to Laura D'Auguste.
She lost due to corner stoppage after eight minutes when she receieved a cut to the face.

Shannon is a NAGA champion, won 1st place at Grappler's Quest and took 1st place at Kimono Kombat in the Absolute Division.

The on-line magazine Jiu-Jitsu Net made Shannon it's "Girl of the Month" back in 2002.

And from that website, here is an interview Shannon did with a then 16 year old unknown, Kira Gracie...
http://www.jiu-jitsu.net/interviews/kira_gracie/

Greta Hicks - Female MMA Fighter

Fighter Name: Greta Hicks
MMA Record: 5-3
Trainer: Adrian Serrano and Richard Kostuck
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 155-165
Home Town: Milwaukee, WI
Fighting Style: MMA
Fighting Out Of: Adrian Serrano's BJJ and Freestyle Grappling and Triton Kickboxing
Additional Styles: Amateur boxing 0-1, Toughman 3-1, nhb pancrase rules 1-0, Lei Thai kickboxing 1-1
Titles and Accomplishments: Won Quest for the Best 2-NHB 2002 United States Kuoshu Championship silver medalist 2002 Milwaukee Rumble women's champ (Toughman)
Adrian Serrano's BJJ and Freestyle Grappling and Triton Kickboxing Style- Muay Thai and freestyle

Greta's last fight was a loss to Jen Case via submission at ISCF - Heavyweight Gladiators Milwaukee, Wisconsin on June 3rd, 2005.

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Charmaine Tweet - Female MMA

Name: Charmaine Tweet
Nick Name: Not So Sweet
MMA Record: 8-1-1
Mixed Martial Arts Training: Duke Roufus
Height: 6'0"
Weight: 155-165
Home Town: Milwaukee, WI
Fighting Style: Kickboxing
Fighting Out Of: Milwaukee, WI
Web Site: http://www.dukeroufus.com

Charmaine Tweet vs Margaret Mroziewicz, Female Muay Thai

Liz Modaff - Women MMA Fighters

Name: Liz Modaff
Nick Name: Lil' Mo
MMA Record: 1-0 (Amateur Kickboxing)
Trainer: Duke Roufus
Height: 5'2"
Weight: 105-125
Home Town: Milwaukee, WI
Fighting Style: Kickboxing
Fighting Out Of: Milwaukee, WI
Web Site: http://www.dukeroufus.com

 

Lisa King - Female MMA

Name: Lisa King
Nick Name (AKA): The Black Widow
MMA Record: 7-1-1 (Kickboxing)
Height: 5'5"
Weight: 105-125
Home Town: Las Vegas, NV
Fighting Style: Kickboxing
Former Trainers: Master Toddy, Master Chan, Master Lookchang, Master Ronnie Green
Sponsors: Las Vegas Fight Club, Shaw Chiropractic
Comments/Notes: actual weight = 115 - 118lbs

Web Site: http://www.theblackwidow.us

Cricket Harris - Women MMA Fighters

Fighters Name: Cricket Harris
MMA Record: 0-0 Kickboxing (Amateur)
Trainer: Duke Roufus
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 125-135
Home Town: Milwaukee, WI
Fighting Style: Kickboxing
Fighting Out Of: Milwaukee, WI
Web Site: http://www.dukeroufus.com

Women MMA Fighters - Debi Purcell

Nickname Whiplash
Height 5ft 7in (170cm)
Weight 135lb (61kg)
Fighting out of Ruas Vale Tudo
Town of birth Laguna Niguel, California
Fighting style Vale Tudo

Debi Purcell is an American mixed martial artist.

Purcell has been involved in fitness and martial arts for over twenty years, with competitive experience in vale tudo, submission grappling, boxing, kickboxing, muay thai, wrestling, taekwondo and gymnastics. Her introduction to MMA came in 1993 during the inaugural Ultimate Fighting Championship, when she was training alongside some of the first competitors in Huntington Beach. Having taken kickboxing, boxing and JKD, she moved on to Brazilian jiu jitsu and finally vale tudo under the famous Marco Ruas, when she says "everything started to make sense".

She is actively involved in supporting women's MMA, having set up Fightergirls.net and the WMAA (Women's Martial Arts Association), along with competing herself. Her eventual goal is to develop quality competitions on a regular basis for female MMA fighters, as she discusses in a 2004 interview with TheFightGame.tv.

Her last fight was a loss by unanimous decision against Hitomi Akano at Smack Girl, on 15 February, 2006.

First woman to ever compete and win in King of the Cage
Ultimate Wrestling World Title Belt Holder
Hook-N-Shoot Revolution Winner, 2002
Headliner on the first ever all women NHB card in US history
Ultimate Wrestling Minnesota Winner
Black Belt in Ruas Vale Tudo
Black Belt in Taekwondo

http://www.debipurcell.com/

Women Fight Their Way Into Mixed Martial Arts - NAM

Women Fight Their Way Into Mixed Martial Arts - NAM:

"SAN FRANCISCO -- As mixed martial arts (MMA) fighting continues to draw capacity crowds to arenas and sports bars from Tokyo to Las Vegas, many commentators see its appeal in its similarity to street fighting. Legal MMA moves such as 'take downs,' 'choke holds' and 'ground and pound' techniques (where a fighter pins his opponent down and beats him with his fists and elbows) can come across more like barroom brawl strategies than practiced moves and give MMA a reputation as a male-dominated, testosterone-driven sport.

However, a growing number of women fighters like Katrine (pronounced Katrina) Alendal paint a different picture. 'Mixed martial artists are some of the most conditioned athletes in the world,' says the 36-year-old fighter who studies muy-thai kick-boxing, jiujitsu, Western boxing and judo. 'It takes a lot of skill, a lot of training and a lot of conditioning.' She emphatically denies any relationship between MMA and street fighting."

Jen Case - MMA Women Fighters

Jen Case
Fighting Style: MMA
Additional Styles: Grappling
Date: 03/11/06
Nick Name (AKA):
Trainer: Steve Twemlow
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 145-155
Home Town: Clay Center, KS
Fighting Out Of: Topeka, KS

Titles and Accomplishments: 2002 US Ji-Jitsu Champion. Bachelor's of >Science in Athletic Training, Magna Cum Lauda with Dept Honors
Over All Record: 3 - 0

Jill Coleby - Female MMA

Jill Coleby
Fighting Style: Kickboxing
Additional Styles: Karate
Date: 4/25/04
Trainer: Shawn Tompkins
Height: 5'5"
Weight: 105-125
Home Town: Tillsonburg, Ontario, Canada
Fighting Out Of: Tillsonburg, Ontario, Canada

Marie Colangelo - Female MMA

Marie Colangelo
Fighting Style: MMA
Additional Styles: Unorthodox
Date: 3/17/04
Nick Name: Lil Katai
Trainer: Frank Amalfitano, Brian & Erica Hanna
Height: 5'2.5"
Weight: 125-135
Home Town: Detroit, Michigan
Fighting Out Of: Detroit, Michigan

Female MMA - Mayra Conde

Mayra Conde

Nickname The Strong Warrior
Height 5ft 4in (163cm)
Weight 158lb (72kg)
Born 28 January 1969
Fighting out of The Beverly Hills Jiu-Jitsu Club
Town of birth Guatemala City, Guatemala
Fighting style Brazilian jiu-jitsu, MMA, Kickboxing

Mayra Conde is a mixed martial artist, who has also competed in kickboxing, brazilian jiu-jitsu and bodybuilding.

Conde hails from Guatemala City, where she grew up on her grandparents' farm. She has spoken fondly of her time there in interviews, as well as citing her grandfather as "my source of strength". However, at the age of nine when her younger brother was born, Conde moved with her parents to Toronto, Canada, hoping for a better education.

Her early years as an immigrant were tough; "I was constantly picked on because I couldn't speak English and was very small". Conde proved up to the challenge, never failing a grade, and is now bilingual, speaking both her native Spanish and adopted English. While still at school, Conde got into sports drinks and nutrition through her father, which led to her becoming a bodybuilder at the age of 16. Her muscular physique proved useful when she moved into construction work after high school. Earning a living as a welder, she would later become a foreman.

In August 1998, despite having no previous grappling experience, Conde still won first place in the women's heavyweight division of Canadian Grapplers Challenge. She says the guillotine choke she bested her first opponent with "was a natural movement when she shot in on me...People asked me how long I had been grappling and I said that I needed to get started." Conde also retained her interest in bodybuilding; the pull of Venice Beach proved irresistible. She left Canada for California along with a friend, Olga Bakalopoulos, who would also become both a weightlifter and mixed martial artist.

California brought Conde her first taste of Brazilian jiu-jitsu, training at the Beverly Hills Jiu Jitsu Club with such luminaries as Mark Kerr and Bas Rutten. Learning from them and another trainer, Marcus Vinicius, she would later fight in the US, Brazil and Greece, and was a part of the groundbreaking all-female Hook N Shoot Revolution promotion.

Sabrina Cohen - Female MMA

Sabrina Cohen
Fighting Style: MMA
Additional Styles: Grappling and Kickboxing
Born: March 14th, 1983
Trainer: Mike Swambo
Height: 5'2"
Weight: 105-125
Home Town: Cardiff, UK
Fighting Out Of: Cardiff, UK
Titles and Accomplishments: International Submission Grappling Champion 2004, the Welsh Open Submission Grappling Champion 2005, and the Southern Open Submission Grappling champion 2005.
Over All Record: 2-0 (Grappling 8-0) (Kickboxing 1-0)

She had a win over Julia Ingram via Submission (Armbar) at House of Pain's HOP 3 - Next Generation on July 24th, 2005 at the Time and Envy Nightclub in Swansea, South Wales, United Kingdom

Female MMA - Marloes Coenen

 

Marloes Coenen
Nickname Female Rickson or Rumina
Height 5ft 9in (175cm)
Weight 154lb (70kg)
Born 31 March 1981
Fighting out of Shooto Holland
Town of birth Olst, Netherlands
Fighting style MMA

Marloes Coenen is a Dutch mixed martial artist. Her brothers and grandfather were both into martial arts, the latter having taken jujitsu twenty years earlier, which aided her own transition into the sport. She started training with Martijn de Jong at Shooto Holland while only 14, who recalls "I really had respect for that, because it didn't matter if it rained or snowed. She still kept on coming." She has said in an interview with Martial Arts News Magazine that she is keen to fight Erin Toughill, whom she calls the "personification of arrogance."

Her last fight was a win by submission against Yoko Takahashi at Shooto-G on March 11, 2006. Along with her competitive career, she is planning to study communications sciences in Amsterdam with a view to employment in that sector.

Female MMA - Gina Carano

Name Gina Carano
Record 3 - 0 - 0 (Win - Loss - Draw)
Wins 2 (T)KOs (66.67%)
1 Decisions (33.33%)

Weight 140lbs (64kg)
Style Kickboxing
City Las Vegas
State Nevada
Country USA

Gina Carano is one of the fastest rising new stars of female MMA. Over the past few months she’s gone from being relatively unknown in our sport to becoming one of the figureheads of the female MMA movement.

After becoming the first woman, along with Leiticia Pestova, to be part of the first ever NSAC-sanctioned female fight, Carano followed it up a few months later by becoming the first woman to fight and win a MMA fight for the Strikeforce promotion when she defeated Elaina Maxwell in December.

Now Gina steps back into the spotlight in this week’s episode of “Warrior Nation”, debuting on MSNBC January 23rd, as they chronicle her and Elaina Maxwell’s journey to their Strikeforce showdown.

“I haven’t gotten to see it yet, so I don’t know what to expect, but I know that I was myself throughout the whole taping,” said Gina Carano of her episode of “Warrior Nation.”

http://mmaweekly.com/

Ana Bernarde - Female MMA

Name: Ana Bernarde
Fighting Style: MMA
Additional Styles:
Date: 10/13/05
Nick Name (AKA):
Trainer: Master Rafael Cordeiro & Osmarzinho
Height: 1.61m
Weight: 105-125
Home Town: Curitiba, Brazil

Female MMA - Claire Brannan

Name: Claire Brannan
MMA Record: 2-0 kickboxing
Trainer: John Dawson
Weight: 155-165
Home Town: Hartlepool
Fighting Style: Kickboxing
Comments/Notes: 1 of her victories is over a male opponent

http://www.fightergirls.net/

Female MMA - Yvette Burton

Name: Yvette Burton
Fighting Style: MMA
Additional Styles: Han Soo Do / Vale Tudo
Date: February 20,2004
Trainer: Steve "Mauler" Dempsey
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 185-Over
Home Town: Hanwell, London, UK
Fighting Out Of: Hanwell, London, UK
Titles and Accomplishments: 3 of Yvette’s fights have been against male opponents in the UK
Over All Record: 5 amateur fights 3/2

Female MMA - Amanda Buckner

Amanda Buckner

Height 5ft 3in (160cm)
Weight 135lb (61kg)
Fighting out of Academy of MMA
Town of birth Orlando, Florida
Fighting style Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
Trainer: Amal Easton

Amanda Buckner is an American mixed martial artist. Her last fight was a Technical KO win against Shayna Baszler in Mix Fighting Championship 7: Russia vs. USA 3, on 3 June 2006. Buckner was a contestant on MMA reality show bodogfight, but lost in her first bout to Tara LaRosa.

Female MMA - Mystee Blackwood

Mystee Blackwood is one of the pioneering Professional MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) women fighters in which she started her career in 2004 in Indiana.

Lockflow interview with Mystee:
http://www.lockflow.com/article_view.php?id=565

http://blog.myspace.com/mysteeblackwood

Maritery Batista - Female MMA

Name: Maritery Batista
Nick Name : The Amazon
MMA Record: 4-0-0
Trainer: Michael Cordoso
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 155-165
Home Town: Miami, FL
Fighting Style: MMA
Fighting Out Of: Extreme Martial Arts
Additional Styles: Grappling
Titles and Accomplishments:
2003 IGC: 1st Place No-Gi Women's Heavyweight Advanced
2004 NAGA Atlanta: 2nd Place No-Gi Women's Middle Weight Advanced
2004 NAGA Atlanta: 1st Place No-Gi Women's Middle Weight Beginner
2004 NAGA World: 1st Place No-Gi Women's Middle Weight Beginner
2004 AMMA: 1st Place Gi Women's Absolute
2004 NAGC: 1st Place No-Gi Women's Middle Weight Beginner

Maritery Batista ( I wonder if she's related to Dave?) is a mixed martial artist, nicknamed 'The Amazon' due to her considerable height and disposition in the ring.
After starting out in kickboxing and taekwondo, Batista was later trained in brazilian jiu-jitsu and mixed martial arts. After only a month of training, she achieved first place in her debut no-gi tournament against another female with 6 years more experience than her. This led to many other successes in the prestigious NAGA and other national grappling tournaments in the US, meaning that Batista was eventually ranked the 7th best national female no-gi fighter in the US, according to MMA.tv, with little more than a year's worth of experience. Batista is a certified personal trainer with multiple nationally recognized associations and is focused greatly in Sports Performance Training for martial artists.
Batista also holds a Masters degree in the study of International Business from Nova Southeastern University. She is currently continuing her education in the field of sports medicine. Batista opened her first martial arts studio in 2004 in her native Florida. Since then, she has enabled to open a Marketing Firm, B&B Global as well introduce a new Fitness Chain called DynamicFX.
DynamicFX brings forth her love for personal training and martial arts out for other South Floridians to enjoy.

Female MMA - Shayna Baszler

Shayna Baszler is an American mixed martial artist.
Her last fight was a loss by Technical Knockout against Amanda Buckner at Mix Fighting Championships: USA vs. Russia 3, on 3 June 2006.

Female MMA - Olga Bakalopoulos

Olga Bakalopoulos
Nickname The Greek Sensation
Height 5ft 6in (168cm)
Weight 175lb (79kg)
Chest: 43"
Biceps: 15"
Legs: 26"
Calves: 16"
Born 20 January 1978
Fighting out of Beverly Hills Jiu Jitsu
Town of birth Toronto, Canada
Fighting style Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

Olga Bakalopoulos is a female mixed martial artist.
She was born in Toronto, Canada, where she lived for 15 years, also living in Greece for 3 years (she is fluent in Greek). She now lives in Los Angeles, California, of which she says "it was always a dream of mine to come".

She states on a female bodybuilding site that "as a teenager I was always interested in sports and strength events", taking part in basketball, field hockey and soccer, among others. At the age of 17, she found inspiration in the female bodybuilder Nikki Fuller - "I thought and still think that that's the way a female is meant to look". She has worked with weights extensively since then, lifting 4 times a week.

She began her martial arts training after a friend introduced her to wrestling. Having competed in that sport, she later took up Brazilian jiu-jitsu; she has been trained by 4th degree black belt Marcus Vinicius at the Beverly Hills Jiu Jitsu Club since February 1999. Bakalopoulos then moved into MMA during the year 2000 (she states in an ADCC interview that she started in 1998, but this may refer to her wrestling). When asked by Thomas Gerbasi about women in combat sport, Bakalopoulos replied:

"In every other sport you see women having a place. Women have as much right to be in this as the guys do. In the beginning, it wasn't all that great but now you have women like Lucia Rijker and Laila Ali, they're just phenomenal fighters. Every year the sport gets bigger, more women get into it, and they're saying 'hey, I can do this.' It's going to be awesome."
According to her entry on Fightergirls.net, she counts Bas Rutten and Marco Ruas amongst her former trainers.

Due to her beautiful appearance and her cozy nature, Olga had lots of fans all around the world. Olga was one of the best wrestling and MMA instructors in the world and transmitted her knowledge on several tours around the world. In 2005 Olga retired as a professional MMA fighter and no longer gave private MMA and wrestling lectures.

Lorri Aguilera - Female MMA

Lorri Aguilera
Nationality: US American
Hometown: Riverside, CA, USA
Birthplace: Lake Arrowhead, CA, USA
Division: Super Flyweight
Date of Birth: September 24th, 1966
Height: 5' 3
Weight: 105-125
Trainer: Joey Pagliuso
Additional Styles: Grappling and Boxing
Martial Arts / Kickboxing experience- 4 years

Although Lorri has retired from both boxing and MMA, she is still a fitness trainer and nutrition educator.
She teaches aerobic fitness and kickboxing to youth, adults and seniors.



Female MMA - Lorri Aguilera posted to http://femalemixedmartialartists.blogspot.com/ on 2-1-2007

Nicole Albrecht - Female MMA

Fighters Name: Nicole Albrecht
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 160 lbs
Trained by: John Delao
MMA Record 2-2-0

Her last MMA fight was a loss to Debi Purcell via Decision (Unanimous Decision) at King of the Cage 17: Nuclear Explosion in San Jacinto, California on October 19th, 2002.

Female MMA - Hitomi Akano

Female MMA, Hitomi Akano
Height 5ft 4in (163cm)
Weight 125lb (57kg)
Fighting out of Japan
Hitomi Akano is a Japanese female MMA fighter. Her most recent fight was against Debi Purcell on 15 February 2006 at Smack Girl, which she won by unanimous decision.

UPDATE: Hitomi has had several fights since this entry was made. Her record now stands at 14-5, her latest match being a victory over Hari Hari at Jewels 1 on November 16, 2008. She won in the first round with an armbar submission.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Hitomi has had two more fights since the last update.
A loss to Cristiane Santos on April 11, 2009 and a win over Miki Morifuji on July 11, 2009.
This brings her female MMA record to 15-6.