Female MMA - News and Info about female mma fighters like Cristiane Justino, Amanda Nunes, Rose Namajunas, Joanna Jędrzejczyk, Valentina Shevchenko, Jéssica Andrade and more MMA fighters.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
MMA News: Cristiane Santos versus Hitomi Akano
Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos (6-1) of Brazil will be facing “Smack Girl” Champion Hitomi “Girlfight Monster” Akano (14-5) of Japan at the "Strikeforce: Shamrock vs. Diaz " event on April 11th at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California.
I think this will be a very interesting match up, because the two women are almost polar opposites.
On the one hand you have Santos' Muay Thai striking and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu skills, and on the other hand you have Akano's submission skills.
Cristiane is of course the co-holder (along with Gina Carano) of the number one ranking in the WAMMA.
So what would a loss to Akano do to that standing?
And what would that do for Akano?
Hitomi was the very first lady I profiled on this blog back in February of 2007.
She has won 11 of her 14 fights with a submission. 10 of them were armbars and 5 were in the first round.
She beat fellow female MMA fighter Hari Hari in 38 seconds in the first round with an armbar.
Cristiane has won 4 of her fights in the first round, and 2 of those were by corner stoppage, her opponents corner men threw in the towel after the first round.
But the only loss she has had was via a leg lock submission, and submissions are Hitomi's bread and butter.
All of Hitomi's losses were by decision.
Cristiane has the height, weight and age advantage, but in MMA, sometimes that doesn't mean a lot.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Popular Posts
-
Here's another picture of female mma fighter Rin Nakai. This is the lady that Miesha "Cupcake" Tate will be taking on Saturday...
-
Name: Maritery Batista Nick Name : The Amazon MMA Record: 4-0-0 Trainer: Michael Cordoso Height: 5'10" Weight: 155-165 Home T...
-
One of the most popular ladies on this blog is the beautiful Lena Ovchynnikova. Yes beautiful, but deadly too. She was born on April 22nd,...
-
10-3-0 Ukrainian kickboxer and mixed martial artist Lena "Hunter" Ovchynnikova. She is the current WBC Muaythai Women's World...
-
Mayra Conde Nickname The Strong Warrior Height 5ft 4in (163cm) Weight 158lb (72kg) Born 28 January 1969 Fighting out of The Beverl...
-
Satoko Shinashi (born January 29, 1977) is a female Japanese mixed martial arts fighter. She specializes in sambo and jiu-jitsu and is kn...
-
Kyra Gracie (born May 29th, 1985) (also spelled Kira), is the daughter of Flavia Gracie, and is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt. Her...
-
Laura D'Auguste is a female mixed martial artist. She initially started practising martial arts to protect herself and her daughter fro...
-
Yana Kunitskaya was born on November 11th, 1989 in Murmansk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. She is five foot eight, 145 pounds and is trained...
-
Alexa Grasso is cute. Yeah I know she is a grown woman and a MMA fighter with an 8-0-0 record. And 4 of those 8 wins were knockouts. But...
No comments:
Post a Comment