MMA Women - Julia Budd

The number two ranked Featherweight MMA fighter in the world, Julia "The Jewel" Budd (10-2-0).
Julia was born on July 4th, 1983 in Roberts Creek, British Columbia, Canada.

She is five foot eight and weighs 145 pounds and was/is the first Bellator Women's Featherweight champion.
Julia started out in Muay Thai and is the only woman to defeat Gina Carano in Muay Thai competition.
In MMA, the only two women she has lost to are Ronda Rousey and Amanda Nunes, which is pretty impressive.

Ronda Rousey vs Holly Holm at UFC 195

On Saturday, January 2, UFC women's bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey will take on Holly Holm.
Of course Ronda's unbeaten record is 12-0-0 with her last four victories coming in a combined 130 seconds.
Holly is 9-0-0 in MMA, but was 33-2-3 in boxing, which will make her the best striker that Ronda has ever faced.
And add to that, Holly is used to going 12 rounds in a fight, something Ronda's opponents never get the chance to do.

UFC 190 - Rousey vs. Correia

Well we all know that UFC 190: Rousey vs. Correia, will be August 01, 2015 at the HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
We know that Ronda Rousey is 11-0-0 and Bethe Correia is 9-0-0.
We know there is a lot of bad blood there and Ronda has threatened to draw the fight out and punish Bethe, which I guess that means Ronda will run it up to the 2:30 mark of the first round.
Does Bethe stand a chance?
Well if you have read this blog, you know that so far I have NEVER gotten a prediction right, starting with me saying that Gina Carano would beat Cyborg Santos way back when.
So I ain't sayin' nothing.

There is another women's bout that night as well, with Jessica Aguilar (19-4-0) taking on Claudia 'Claudinha' Gadelha (12-1-0)
I ain't calling that one either.

Claudia Gadelha - MMA Women

Claudia Gadelha is a 26 year old Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt from the Nova Uniao Academy.
She is five foot three and weighs in at 115 pounds.
Claudia has a 12-1-0 MMA record and before her loss to Joanna Jedrzejczyk at UFC on Fox 13 - Dos Santos vs. Miocic via split decision, she had a winning streak of 11 in a row.
"Claudinha" will be taking on Jessica Aguilar (19-4-0) at UFC 190 on August 01, 2015 at the HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Keri Scarr - MMA Women

Keri "The Crusher" Scarr was born on December 24th,1975 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
She is five foot ten and weighs in at between 140 and 145 pounds.
Keri is trained in Muay Thai Kickboxing, Yoshukai Karate and Brazilian Ju Jitsu and was trained by Stan Peterec and Master Toddy.
She is not only a MMA fighter (0-3 one of those losses was because she was disqualified for illegal strikes), but a pro boxer (3-0-1), an amateur kickboxer (8-2-0) and a pro kickboxer (0-2-0).

http://www.crushercombat.com/

Carina "Barbie" Damm - MMA Women

May 21, 2007 Nicknames are not uncommon among mixed martial arts athletes. A look at the current roster of Bodog Fighters reveals colorful monikers such as "Red Nosed Pitt Bull", "Buffalohead", "The Eraser", and "The Juggernaut".

The importance of a good handle has not been lost on female fighters either, with flamboyant Brazilian Carina "Beauty But The Beast" Damm providing a first-rate example.

While most nicknames are designed to intimidate, like Bill "The Butcher" Mahood or Brad "One Punch" Pickett, a nickname like "Cuddles" undoubtedly falls short of such goals. Nevertheless, Ohio's Jan Finney insists she's no teddy bear.

Full article at:
http://www.mmaringreport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1240&Itemid=79

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Hitomi Akano - MMA Women

Height 5'4 (163cm)
Weight 135lbs (61kg)
City Tokyo
Country Japan

Hitomi Akano is a Japanese mixed martial artist. Her most recent fight was against Debi Purcell on 15 February 2006 at Smack Girl, which she won by unanimous decision.

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MMA - 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

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.

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MMA Women - Marloes Coenen

Marloes Coenen (born March 31, 1981 in Olst, Netherlands) 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.

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MMA Women - Mayra Conde

Mayra Conde (born January 28, 1969 in Guatemala City, Guatemala) is a mixed martial artist, who has also competed in kickboxing, brazilian jiu-jitsu and bodybuilding.
Nickname The Strong Warrior
Height 5ft 4in (163cm)
Weight 158lb (72kg)
Born January 28, 1969
Fighting out of The Beverly Hills Jiu-Jitsu Club
Town of birth Guatemala City, Guatemala
Fighting style Brazilian jiu-jitsu, MMA, Kickboxing
Conde hails from Guatemala City, where she grew up on her grandparents' farm. She has spoken fondly of her time there in interviews, as well as citing her grandfather as "my source of strength". However, at the age of nine when her younger brother was born, Conde moved with her parents to Toronto, Canada, hoping for a better education.

Her early years as an immigrant were tough; "I was constantly picked on because I couldn't speak English and was very small". Conde proved up to the challenge, never failing a grade, and is now bilingual, speaking both her native Spanish and adopted English. While still at school, Conde got into sports drinks and nutrition through her father, which led to her becoming a bodybuilder at the age of 16. Her muscular physique proved useful when she moved into construction work after high school. Earning a living as a welder, she would later become a foreman.

In August 1998, despite having no previous grappling experience, Conde still won first place in the women's heavyweight division of Canadian Grapplers Challenge. She says the guillotine choke she bested her first opponent with "was a natural movement when she shot in on me...People asked me how long I had been grappling and I said that I needed to get started." Conde also retained her interest in bodybuilding; the pull of Venice Beach proved irresistible. She left Canada for California along with a friend, Olga Bakalopoulos, who would also become both a weightlifter and mixed martial artist.

California brought Conde her first taste of Brazilian jiu-jitsu, training at the Beverly Hills Jiu Jitsu Club with such luminaries as Mark Kerr and Bas Rutten. Learning from them and another trainer, Marcus Vinicius, she would later fight in the US, Brazil and Greece, and was a part of the groundbreaking all-female Hook N Shoot Revolution promotion.

1st Place at the 3rd American International Championships, Grappling (148-160lbs) Light Weight Division, Carson, CA, 9 December 2001
1st Place at the 3rd American International Championships, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Women's Open Division, Carson, CA, 8 December 2001
1st Place in the US Open Brazilian Jiu Jitsu CHAMPIONSHIPS, October 2001
2001 Bronze Medalist in the World Wide Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (July 26-29 )
Double GOLD Medalist in 1st World Wide Pankration Championships on 11 November 2000, Lamia, Greece
1st place winner in the Heavy weight & Open Division in the U.S. Open Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Championships in Santa Cruz, 5 November 2000
Winner in NHB Bout at the Mark "The Cobra" Hall's Cobra Challenge Federation, in Anza CA on 3 June 2000
1st Place winner in the California State Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Championships, 26 March 2000
U.S. Open Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Heavy Weight and Overall Winner, Santa Cruz (White Belt), 5 November 2000 Won Cobra Challenge NHB fight, 6 March 2000
Women's Kick-Boxing Division Winner, September 1999
Women's Heavy Weight Grappler's Challenge Champion, August 1999
Winner by technical K.O. in Kick-Boxing Bout at the Bas Rutten Invitational in Littleton CO, 26 June 1999
Winner in NHB/Vale Tudo Bout at the 1st Bas Rutten Invitational, 6 February 1999
1st Place Women's Heavyweight Winner at the Grapplers Challenge in Toronto, Canada on 8 August 1998
Nite Magic Flexmania Ladies Overall (Bodybuilding), July 1996

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MMA Women - Laura D'Auguste

Laura D'Auguste is a female mixed martial artist. She initially started practising martial arts to protect herself and her daughter from her husband. She also works as a cardiac nurse.

D'Auguste's first experience with martial arts came in April 1996; previously, she had taken ballet and modern dance. Her mother signed her up for a Woman's Safe Seminar at Tiger Schulmann's Karate Center, where she learnt basic grab escapes and strikes.This came at a difficult time for the unemployed D'Auguste, who had recently left an abusive marriage, taking a 3 year old daughter along with her. Her escape to New York from Arizona had to be planned carefully; her husband had threatened to kill her if she ever left.

D'Auguste had already spent all her money on child care and nursing school, but knew she needed further self-defence training. Sensei Peter Guzman, an instructor at the school, made an agreement with D'Auguste that she could work off her tuition fees through various chores at the gym; for example, taking calls, mopping the floors and cleaning the locker room. Soon, she was training regularly, eventually earning her 2nd degree black belt and level 2 Joshu.

D'Auguste began competing in MMA in 2000 for the TSK Fight Team, later becoming the top ranked female fighter in the world. Her last fight was a win against Megumi Yabushita at Smack Girl: Dynamic on 17 August 2005.

1st Place Men's Advanced Grappling Division, Challenge of Champions XVII
3rd Place Men's Free Fighting, Challenge of Champions XVII
Ring of Combat Welterweight Champion
Reality Fighting Welterweight Champion
1st Place in NAGA Women's Advanced Lightweight, Women's Advances Middleweight and 2nd in Men's Advanced Flyweight.

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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

Keri "The Crusher" Crothers - MMA Women

Canadian women's MMA fighter, Keri "The Crusher" Crothers.
Keri is 5 foot 10 and weighs in at 130 to 145 pounds.
She was born on December 24th, 1975 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
Keri was trained by Master Toddy and Stan Peterec.
At one time she held the Canadian Amateur Lightweight Champion.

Erin Toughill - Female MMA

Erin Toughill
Nickname: Tough Enough
Height: 5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Weight: 165lb (75 kg)
Born: June 13th, 1977 in Chicago, Illinois
Fighting out of Boran Jiu-Jitsu and Punchout
Fighting style Grappling, Boxing

Erin Toughill is a retired female mixed martial artist and boxer, born in Chicago, Illinois on June 13th,1977.
She says she originally got into martial arts "so that I could have a positive outlet for my aggression".
Toughill took up kickboxing at the age of 18, then brazilian jiu jitsu two years later.

She began competing in mixed martial arts on September 27th, 1999, drawing with Irma Verhoeff at World Vale Tudo Championship 9 in Aruba.
Less than a year later, she made her professional boxing on July 20th, 2000. Her most recent boxing match was against Laura Ramsey. Toughill won by unanimous decision.

Along with her MMA competitive record, in boxing she has 7 wins, 2 losses and 1 draw.

 Erin on American Gladiators, where she was known as Steel.

Erin Toughill - Female MMA, posted to http://femalemixedmartialartists.blogspot.com/ on 3-1-2007