WMMA Featherweights Ranking - February 2016

Say what you will...
Love her or hate her....
Cris "Cyborg" Justino is still at the top of the WMMA Featherweights.
People keep harping on that failed drug test in 2012, but that was 4 years ago and she still has a 14-1-1 record and that one loss was in 2005. \
She also has a 2-1-0 Kickboxing record and a 7-1-0 Submission grappling record.

Featherweights (136-145 pounds)

1. Cris "Cyborg" Justino (14-1, 1NC) – Invicta FC Champion
2. Marloes Coenen (23-6)
3. Julia Budd (8-2)
4. Latoya Walker (5-0)
5. Arlene Blencowe (7-5)
6. Faith Van Duin (5-2)
7. Charmaine Tweet (7-5)
8. Peggy Morgan (4-3)
9. Amanda Bell (4-3)
10. Gabrielle Holloway (5-4)

11. Cindy Dandois – 12. Megan Anderson – 13. Daria Ibragimova – 14. AJ Jenkins – 15. Jessy Miele

You can see the whole list here:
https://wmmatoday.wordpress.com/unified-wmma-rankings/

The Current UFC Women MMA Fighters - 2015

Last year I did a post about the then Current UFC Female roster.
So I thought I would update that one now.
Oddly enough (as I have mentioned before) Dana White once swore women would never fight in UFC.
Then evidently he met Ronda Rousey.
He signed her up and now the UFC roster has 25 fighters on it, down from 27 last time I did this...

Ronda Rousey
Miesha Tate
Alexis Davis
Amanda Nunes
Sarah Kaufman
Liz Carmouche
Germaine de Randamie
Raquel Pennington
Sara McMann
Jessica Eye
Bethe Correia
Jessamyn Duke
Julianna Peña
Marion Reneau
Cat Zingano
Elizabeth Phillips
Leslie Smith
Holly Holm
Milana Dudieva
Sarah Moras
Lauren Murphy
Larissa Pacheco
Cristiane Justino
Ashlee Evans-Smith
Rin Nakai    

Right now only Ronda, Julianna Peña and Holly Holm are undefeated.

Carla Esparza - Women MMA Fighters

Carla “Cookie Monster” Esparza (9-2-0) – Invicta FC and UFC.
The number two ranked Strawweight female MMA fighter in the world.
Carla is currnetly on a four win streak having beaten Bec Rawlings, Lynn Alvarez, Sarah Schneider and Felice Herrig.

Ramona Gatto - Female Kickboxing

Ramona Gatto, a nine time world champion kickboxer, known as "Kickboxing's Bad Girl" is one of the most accomplished female fighters of all time.
Growing up in a time when women were not accepted in the male dominated sport of professional pugilism, Ramona was told that her dream of becoming a professional fighter was not realistic and women could not become fighters.
Not accepting the status quo and society's take on what women could do, Ramona changed history by becoming one of the world's mostly highly accomplished professional fighters, and one of the best female fighters in history.

Besides kickboxing, Ramona also did some boxing, taking on Theresa Arnold back on March 27th, 1996 at the Lucky Eagle Casino, Rochester, Washington, United States.
Ramona lost, but you gotta remember, Theresa's record was 15-1-1.

In 2008, Ramona was teaching boxing, and got involved in a scandal about unsanctioned fights at Northern California boxing gyms.
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/iteam&id=6544822

And you can read more about Ramona's battles outside the ring here:
http://www.sfweekly.com/2003-07-02/news/san-mateo-confidential/



Ramona Gatto, posted to http://femalemixedmartialartists.blogspot.com/ on 3-11-2007

Melanie Kohler-Edwards - MMA Women

Melanie Kohler-Edwards
Dec. 10, 1981
Height: 5'6''
Wt: 120-lbs
Record: 8 wins 4 losses 0 draws
Preferred fighting style: Muay Thai
Trainer: Kwame Stephens
K-1 USA Superfight winner 2003