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Showing posts with label female fighting. Show all posts
Invicta Fighting Championships Flyweight Champ Barb Honchak. Barb is 34 years old, five foot four and 125 pounds. She has been fighting since 2007 and her current MMA record is 9-2-0. Barb is currently on an eight fight winning streak. Her last fight was a win over Leslie Smith at Invicta FC 7 - Honchak vs. Smith on December 7th, 2013 via Decision (Unanimous).
Since Megumi Fujii lost her undefeated record, let's look at another female mixed martial artist that's so far undefeated, Taylor Stratford. Taylor was born on July 31, 1991, in San Diego, California and resides in Reno, Nevada. Right now, her amateur record stands at 5-0-0. She has wins over Elsa Magona, Maria Maumoynier (in a non-sanctioned fight), Shiely Chavez, Brittany Christian and Raquel Pennington.
Taylor does her MMA training at the Reno Academy of Combat under former Super Fight Champ Rick Collup. According to Sherdog, she stands five foot six, weighs in at 135 pounds and favors boxing and jiu jitsu.
Female MMA fighter Lena "Hunter" Ovchynnikova was born on April 22nd, 1987 in Lviv, in the Ukraine.
Lena is 5'4 and weighs in at around 125 pounds.
Lena has a 4-0 record in MMA, 3-0 in kickboxing and 4-0 in K-1 rules.
She was the 2007 European champion (Thai, International Sport Karate Association)
2007 and 2008 Ukraine professional MMA champion
WKA (World Karate and Kickboxing Association) World champion (K-1 rules)
2009 Europe MMA champion (ISKA)
Now that Gina Carano has defeated Kelly Kobald, the MMA fans are clammoring for a new bout. Gina Carano versus Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos. Santos fairly easily crushed Yoko Takahashi, while Kobald gave Carano a run for her money, even winning one round in a judge's opinion. Now is the stage set for Carano versus Santos? The Face of women's MMA against The Destroyer? You have to admit, the hype around this sounds almost like a Hollywood movie. No offense to either women (I think they are both pretty in their own way), but it feels almost like Rocky and Clubber Lang in Rocky 3.
Jacqueline Andrade is a female mixed martial artist from Rio de Janiero, Brazil. She trains with Gracie Jiu-Jitsu. Jacqueline has had two fights and two wins, both by submission. The first was against Claudia Remero, she got an armbar submission in the first round in an incredible 14 seconds! The second was against Amanda Buckner, again with an armbar in 4:00. I don't know why this lady hasn't had a recorded match since 2003, with a record like that, she should be out there winning. I think she may have possibly gone into grappling as opposed to MMA now as evidenced by the video posted by GrapplersQuest.
Jaqueline Andrade vs Penny Thomas Grapplers Quest World Series of Grappling
"Habersham County martial arts instructor Master Kathy Kiernan has received one of the highest honors available to those who practice: she was inducted into the 2008 U.S. Martial Arts Hall of Fame.
Kiernan, who owns Kiernan Hapkido Academy in Hollywood, says this is her second Hall of Fame induction. In 2004, she was inducted as female hapkido instructor of the year. This year, she is Hapkido Master of the Year."
"In late 2007, Muscle and Fitness HERS wrote an article about female fitness role models entitled, “Women Strength”. The article opened by introducing readers to four women that were the class of their sports.
'Skateboarding has Tony Hawk. Women's soccer has Mia Hamm. And if female mixed martial arts (MMA) ever goes mainstream, it will have Debi Purcell,' the magazine said.
Unfortunately, when female MMA first did go mainstream the woman most credited for helping to start and keep the sport alive wasn’t getting the fights on television. Purcell, whose website FighterGirls.com helped keep the sport vibrant in the dark years was notably absent."
For local group of amateur women wrestlers, this is 'real fighting' By ROBERTA T. VOWELL, The Virginian-Pilot
Foxx is pounding Tazz into the floor. The women are locked in combat on a wrestling mat in the back room of an office space in Virginia Beach. Foxx has her muscular legs wrapped around Tazz's rib cage and is slowly squeezing the breath out of the smaller woman. Tazz's mother leans forward from her folding chair on the sidelines. "Pop a shoulder into her neck," mom urges. "C'mon, Tazz, make me proud." But Tazz is fighting for air, her short gasps punctuating her mother's shouts. "Tap out," Foxx says, "and you won't have to puke." Tazz takes another sputtering breath, then raises her hand and lets her palm slap on the floor, blue-painted fingernails bouncing. Surrender.
Nickname Blood Red
Height 5ft 6in (168cm)
Weight 150lb (68kg)
Fighting out of Team Bison
Town of birth Minneapolis, Minnesota
Fighting style MMA
Kelly Kobold-Gavin (sometimes written as Kobald) is a mixed martial artist. She began her training in June 2002, having had no previous martial arts experience. Her mixed martial arts record is 14 - 0 - 1.
Her last fight was a win by submission against Lisa Jo Fairbanks at EFX, on 3 May 2006.
