Miku Matsumoto: One Busy Woman

Miku Matsumoto: One Busy Woman
Friday, August 15, 2008
by Tony Loiseleur (tloiseleur@sherdog.com)

Is Miku Matsumoto a woman on a mission or a woman who just really loves what she does? Maybe she’s both.
As the women’s lightweight champion in Deep, Matsumoto has achieved a surprising level of success in a few short years. This is especially astonishing when one considers the fact that most Japanese women with an interest in fisticuffs tend to hold down jobs outside of fighting professionally, leaving mixed martial arts as little more than a time-consuming hobby.
http://sherdog.com/news/articles/one-busy-woman-14057

Mixed martial arts - Vallejo Times Herald

Mixed martial arts - Vallejo Times Herald:

Despite its reputation as a man's sport, women are beginning to make waves in MMA By DAN NIED/Times-Herald sports writer

"The knee was blink-of-an-eye quick, and would have been nearly invisible if not for a staccato, upward jerk of Leigh Schlosser's head upon impact.

For a split second, everyone in the training room at Combat Fitness in Vallejo paused to let out a slight gasp at one of those small things that's not exactly planned.

But Schlosser ignored it, staying in the moment of the drill, keeping her weight on top of Erin Beal without vengeance for Beal's errant knee.

The setting was almost begging for a knee to the chin. At Combat Fitness, a martial arts academy tucked into a corner of the Lakeridge Fitness health club on Sereno Drive, the two women drilled in a"


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