Tag "WMMA"
An MMA Burner Exclusive Interview. Invicta Fighting Championship’s President Shannon Knapp sees the potential in women’s mixed martial arts (WMMA) and plans on helping the sport evolve successfully. Shannon and Janet Martin (Invicta FC Matchmaker) hope to create depth in WMMA by making sure fighters are evenly matched, fight at their proper weight classes, and strike a good balance between taking enough training time between fights and taking enough performance
The best part of this video is watching Ronda “Rowdy” Rousey call out Cris “Cyborg” after her successful title defense against former Strikeforce Bantamweight Champ Sara Kaufman. She goes as far as calling Cyborg a cheater. Well put.
Bantamweight Championship bout: Ronda Rousey vs. Sarah Kaufman: Rousey is without a doubt the most talked about female fighter in all mma and is more popular than Gina Carano or Cris “Cyborg” these days. She is a dangerous fighter, but her opponent is ready to spoil her fun and derail the Rousey “hype” train. Kaufman has good take-down defense, good jiu jitsu and will definitely have the advantage in the striking
Ronda “Rowdy” Rousey is by far an amazing athlete, Olympic level Judokan, and MMA fighter. But her next opponent in Sara Kaufman, has a great chance at dethroning the Women’s Strikeforce Bantamweight Champ on Saturday, August 18th, on Showtime. If Rousey beats Kaufman though, the possibility of a super fight against Cris “Cyborg” Evangelista will become very close to becoming a reality. “In the next ten years, uh.. if there’s a
The UFC isn’t the only MMA organization reinventing formulas and breaking trends these days. Watch this hauntingly beautiful video involving fighters from the first event, of the first ever, all female mixed martial arts league known as Invicta FC. I’m not sure how to watch their next event this Saturday, beginning at 6pm, July 28th, at the Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Kansas. Fortunately fights from the first event appear
Strikeforce proves once again there is a strong MMA talent pool outside of the UFC. VIDEO COURTESY OF STRIKEFORCE..
Tuesday morning StrikeForce Women’s Bantamweight champion and Olympic medalist Ronda “Rowdy” Rousey was posing nude on the cover of Espn’s Body Issue and by Wednesday she was calling out Kim Kardashian.
Cyborg has been an MMA household name since beating Gina Corano two years ago. In her last ten fights she has knocked out every opponent except one who she beat unanimously. She has yet to get in any trouble in the cage or need to rely on anything less than her basic tactic which is to overpower her opponents mercilessly until the fight is stopped. Until recently, she was the
