Hottest Women MMA Weigh-Ins Ever

The face offs at the ceremonial weigh-ins before the MMA fights are great.
Sometimes I wish they happened in the ring ringht before the match.
But I guess that would be a bit too much like a schoolyard brawl huh?
Anyway, here are some of the best female MMA face-offs ever.

Lena "Hunter" Ovchynnikova vs Julia Budd

Paige VanZant vs  Kailin Curran

Ronda Rousy vs Cat Zingano

Miesha Tate vs Jessica Eye

Jessica Eye vs. Julianna Peña

Felice Herrig def. Nicdali Rivera-Calanoc
(I couldn't show the best one of these because Blogger would shut me down. But look it up)

Carla Esparza vs. Rose Namajunas

Felice Herrig and Paige VanZant

Holly Holm vs. Miesha Tate

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Aleksandra Albu - MMA Fighter

Alexandra "Stitch" Albu is a Strawweight UFC fighter from Vulcănești, Gagauzia, Moldova.
She is five foot two, 115 pounds and is represented by Red Fury Fight Team.
Alexandra has only had two Pro fights, but she won them both.
She is currently 2-0-0 and so far she is not ranked in the Unified Women’s Pro MMA Rankings.
But I did a write up on Ronda Rousey long before she was ranked too...and you see what happened with her.

Angela Lee - MMA Fighter

This is Singaporean MMA fighter, Angela Lee.
Angela is fair new to the MMA scene but so far she is 5-0-0 and those fights were pretty impressive.
Ronda Rousey impressive actually.

Her longest pro fight has been 2 minutes.
And all 5 were won with submissions.

And before that, her 3 amateur fights all were under 1 minute. 

Expect big things out of Angela "Unstoppable" Lee.

Paige VanZant - MMA Women

Five foot four, 115 pound, twenty one year old beauty Paige "12 Gauge" VanZant is one of the up and coming female MMA fighters in the world today. She's not only a cage fighter but a model as well.
And she's also a dancer, former cheerleader, ring girl and she plans to become a gourmet chef.
Sounds like she has a plan doesn’t it?

Paige started out in martial arts taking classes with her dad because he wanted her to learn and she had been on the receiving end of some bullying in school, so Paige gave it a shot. She became a ring girl but wanted closer to the action and finally got her wish, training first at the House of Ryu Gym in Las Vegas, and then with Team Alpha Male.

Paige had her first fight on June 30th, 2012 against Jordan Nicole Gaza at UWF - Tournament of Warriors Finale. She won that fight via Split Decision.

Her next fight was a Unanimous Decision win over Amber Stautzenberger at PFS - Premier Fight Series 2 on September 22nd, 2012.

Paige's first loss came at the hands of Tecia Torres on January 5th, 2013 at Invicta FC 4 - Esparza vs. Hyatt via a Unanimous Decision.

Her last fight was a win over Alex Chambers at UFC 191 - Johnson vs. Dodson 2 on September 5th, 2015 via Submission (Armbar)

Given time, I think Paige may be right up there with the big names in just a little while. The difference in her between her third and fourth fight was pretty incredible.

Megan Anderson - MMA Women

Female MMA fighter Megan Anderson is from the Gold Coast, Queensland, Austrailia.
Tapology.com has her listed as five foot eleven, but Sherdog has her listed as five foot seven.
So...
Anyway, she is ranked number 7 in Featherweights (136-145 pounds) in the May 2015 Unified Women’s MMA Rankings.
Her MMA record stands at 4-1-0 and she is currently on a four win streak.

Liz Carmouche Will Be Making MMA History Too

When Ronda Rousey steps into the steel cage at UFC 157: Rousey vs. Carmouche, she won't be the only one making female MMA history.
Liz "Girl-Rilla" Carmouche will also be stepping into that cage and she too will be making history.
Liz was born on February 19th, 1984 in Lafayette, Louisiana and grew up in Okinawa, Japan.
Though Liz doesn't have the hype surrounding her that Ronda has, you have to remember that in her eight fights, three of her wins were by TKO, one was by submission and only one was won by decision.

Her first pro match was a win over Aleena Albertson via Submission at the NFC - Native Fighting Championship May 29th, 2010.
Liz's last match was a win over Kaitlin Young at Invicta FC 2 - Baszler vs. McMann July 28th, 2012 via Submission (RNC).
Her current MMA record is 8-2-0.

You can keep up with Liz on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/iamgirlrilla
And Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Liz-Carmouche-Official/107744162639395

Female MMA Results and Upcoming Bouts

Here are some female MMA results for last month....



At Bitetti Combat 6 on February 25th, Amanda "Lioness of the Ring" Nunes defeated Ediane “India” Gomes in the second round via TKO.



At Strikeforce Challengers 6 on February 26, Sarah Kaufman defeated Takayo Hashi becoming the Strikeforce 135-pound women's champion.



At RFC 20 Stacked on February 26, Diana "Dynamite" Rael defeated the debuting Caroline "Rare Ninja" Portugal round two via TKO.



At Jungle Fight 16 on February 27th, Carina "Beauty But The Beast" Damm stopped Aline Serio in the first round with punches from the mount.

Upcoming....

At Reno Xtrene Fights III on March 19th, San Jose’s Jenny Trujillo (1-0) will take on Nicole Johnson (1-1) in a three round Featherweight match

Female MMA Video

Here are some links to the most popular female mma video across the net.
Yes it was a slow news day, and I still haven't been able to find a thing on the “FEMALE FURY II” results.

The highest rated video is this one of Lisa Ward taking on Miku "Supernova" Matsumoto posted by elsdolf on YouTube.
Although Miku lost this one, she did come back to defaet Lisa at DEEP - Toyama Impact on June 28th, 2009.
Lisa's current record is 12-5-0 and Miku's is 21-4-0.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSGS6i8-QSA


The next female MMA video is a tribute to Satoko Shinashi posted by Gullwing33 on YouTube.
Satoko's current record is 29-2-2.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf9W9luyxHw


Next up is the video of Strikeforce Women's Lightweight Champion, Cris 'Cyborg' Santos choking out a MMA news reporter.
http://www.break.com/index/female-mma-fighter-chokes-out-reporter.html


Then we have a video of Liz Carreiro taking on Jill Slatten on Google Video.
The fight took place on October 13th, 2007 at FCF - Freestyle Cage Fighting.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7022254980294292050#


The next video is from Daily Motion and it features Shayna Baszler (9-6-0) taking on Tama Chan.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7es5z_shayna-baszler-vs-tama-chan-female_sport


And the last most popular clip is a little weird, between two un-named female MMA fighters.
It's posted on Live Video and you can see it here:
http://www.livevideo.com/video/EDE8AD51F955452DA5158D266954E8FB/female-mma-fight.aspx

So there are the six most popular female MMA videos according to Google right now.
Funny...Gina Carano isn't in any of them.
Hmmmm....

Female MMA Video, posted to http://femalemixedmartialartists.blogspot.com/ on Sept 24th, 2009.

Female MMA - Yuka Tsuji

Yuka Tsuji was born on December 11, 1974 in Osaka, Japan.
She is a Japanese female MMA fighter.
Yuka spent a lot of time fighting in the Smackgirl promotion, and was the inaugural Smackgirl Lightweight Champion.
When Smackgirl folded in 2008, she jumped to Greatest Common Multiple's Valkyrie promotion and there she became their inaugural Featherweight Champion.

Yuka is 5 foot 2 inches tall and weighs in at 115 pounds.
Her female MMA record is an impressive 22-1-0.

Besides being the Smackgirl Lightweight Champion and Valkyrie Featherweight Champion, Yuki won the Bronze Medal in Women's Freestyle Wrestling (51 kg) in the 1997 Asian Championship and was the 2002 JAPAN CUP middleweight tournament champion.
On August 2nd, Yuka Tsuji was ranked number two in the Flyweight division of the WAMMA's female mma rankings.

Posted to http://femalemixedmartialartists.blogspot.com/ on Sept 14th, 2009

Female MMA: 3 Minutes or 5 Minutes?

I mentioned in a post awhile back about changing the three minute rounds in female MMA to five minute rounds.
Well it seems that over at MMA Junkie and Watch Kalib Run there has been an ongoing discussion of this which I just caught the last part of.
You can go to their site and read all of the articles here:
http://www.watchkalibrun.com/2009/7/2/935763/peer-reviewing-dr-benjamins-ideas

It now seems the Carano - Santos fight will be five minute rounds.
That's something I wondered about when the fight was announced.
(Dang! I was gonna try to go a whole week without saying Carano or Santos!)

So what do you think?
Should female MMA be five minute rounds?

To me, and this is totally unscientific, saying female MMA should be three minute rounds and male MMA should be five minutes is like saying Danica Patrick can only drive 250 laps at the Indy 500 cause she's a girl.

Jessica Bednark and Tuff-N-Uff Productions

On July 10th, 2009, Tuff-N-Uff made Las Vegas history with an all female MMA card.
The show was at the packed Orleans Arena, and 20 female mixed martial artisits battled it out in the ring.
According to Barry Meyer, president of Tuff-N-Uff Productions, it was the largest attended female MMA event in Las Vegas history.
You can read a full write up on the event here.

A really good thing about this even is that a portion of the proceeds from this event went to help Jessica Bednark.
In case you didn't know, Jessica is a pro MMA fighter who suffered a ruptured artery in her brain while training back in May.
Jessica has no health insurance, and her boyfriend's brother Derek Gould, is collecting donations.
Derek can be reached at derekwgould@yahoo.com, and donations can be sent to 15824 Neon St. NW, Ramsey, MN 55303.
A paypal account has also been set up for Jessica, and paypal donations can be sent to helpforjessica@twincities.mn.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to Jessica and I pray for a complete and total recovery for this brave young lady.

Kyra Gracie - Female Martial Arts

Kyra Gracie (born May 29th, 1985) (also spelled Kira), is the daughter of Flavia Gracie, and is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt.
Her uncles are Ralph Gracie, Renzo Gracie, and Ryan Gracie.
She is one of the few Gracie women to hold that rank and is the first Gracie female to actively compete in the sport.
Her competition titles include: 5 Time Brazilian Champion (98,99,00,01,04); 5 Time State Champion (98,99,00,01,02); World Champion (2004); ADCC Champion (2005); 4 Time Pan American Champion (01,02,03,05).
She is currently living in New York City training at the Renzo Gracie Academy there where she instructs the women's classes.

Sr. Mitsuo "Count Koma" Maeda → Carlos Gracie Sr. → Robson Gracie → Kyra Gracie

5x Brazilian Champion
5x NY state Champion
2004 World BJJ Champion
2005 Abu Dhabi Combat Champion
4x Pan American Games Champion

http://graciekyra.com/

Here's a video of Kyra Gracie taking on one of the best in the world, Megumi Fujii.
This video was posted by koiketto

Kyra Gracie - Female Martial Arts, posted to http://femalemixedmartialartists.blogspot.com/ on March 16th, 2007

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/

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/

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

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.