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Let’s not forget this upcoming fight coming tomorrow night Valerie Coolbaugh who was recently on SportsGeeks to talk about this fight and what this fight means to her, Valerie goes on to explain that she lost the fight with 8 seconds left in the third round by a armbar and Valerie is looking to see if she has gained an advantage since the three years they last fought. Miesha Tate is the one who recommended to FCF that Valerie be given a chance to fight Miesha for the 135 title in the women’s division at FCF. Talking with Valerie she sounded so confident and has been working hard to make this fight go all the way or at least have a better outcome from the last fight before Miesha went pro. Valerie told me that she was just really starting out when they first fought in the cage and since then has worked hard to become a better fighter and Miesha since then is 7-2 with her previous fight against Sarah Kaufman took Sarah the distance but lost to decision. Miesha has fought back and won against Sarah Oriza with KO to the head. So right now this fight looks to be a battle and I know from what I heard from Valerie she even said that it will be a battle to the end and like Valerie has told me that she is doing this to fight nothing else and that’s what I love about Women’s MMA. Female fighters are the best and they show in the cage and out of the cage. So if anyone is heading to Tulsa Oklahoma this weekend stop by the Exp Pavilion and check out this battle that will happen later on today! I will be tweeting results and talking about this fight throughout today with updates from both fighters on their facebook or twitter accounts.
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update: Carano vs cyborg 8/15/2009
I saw both fighter interviews on Showtime between Carano and Cyborg and they both looked great, they are ready to fight tonight, you can tell with the look in their eyes wow!
Watching all the matches tonight they were all good we are not just waiting for the big main event to come up.
Oh BTW Big John McCarthy is referring tonight; I wonder who is going to do the big main event?
Wow watching an interview with Jake Shields cool….
Now interview with Andre Ward cool
While waiting for the fight between Gina and Cris, heck I am even nervous and I am wondering if they are even more nervous. What do you think is going through their minds right now.
OMG just saw a Fedor commercial done by Showtime, OMG that was cool….
Hey UFC missing out eh! yeah you know you don’t have the number 1 fighter in the world anymore….I wonder what Dana White is saying hell I bet he is watching this fight right now, who wouldn’t be watching it….
Strikeforce M1 this fall on Showtime….featuring, Fedor, Bret Rogers, Jake and I am sure many more….hell yeah its on this fall….
Well the fight is fixing to start and as I get ready to watch I am going nuts right now, I hope Gina Carano does win, even though she is now the underdog….GO GINA!!!!!
I do have to say that this is the biggest fight in the world and finally Cris Cyborg has someone that matches her…
Cyborg comes out and is looking great…..a lot of people are cheering cyborg, that’s good….
Gina looks good! and ready to go!!! you can tell she is concentrating and that’s all she needs to do…
Here she comes, Carano with a thunderous ovation!! Randy Couture is right by her side….
Gina getting her last minute Vaseline on her face and now she enters the ring….
Jimmy Lennon Jr…introducing the fighters…..here we go….I cannot wait for this!! wooohooo…
This is being shown all over the world and its the best thing I have ever seen in the world!!!
I am so nervous right now……
Remember Cyborg is representing the south of the equator…..
Remember Carano is representing the north of the equator…
Josh Rosenthal referring
OMG OMG this first round is rocking
Gina is having hard time with Cyborg
omg omg omg
Gina is getting out of every hold
but Gina looses…..
Cyborg has the power and it was way to much for Gina…she was just to small for Cyborg….
Wow what a cool video profile, remember Gina Carano is fighting Cyborg tomorrow night on Showtime stay tuned for more updates from SportsGeeks, your sports leader in women’s professional sports.
Wow what a cool video profile, remember Gina Carano is fighting Cyborg tomorrow night on Showtime stay tuned for more updates from SportsGeeks, your sports leader in women’s professional sports.
Carano vs Cyborg
I was at the fightergirls.com message boards and found this great post on Megumi Fujii, If you do go the web link at the bottom of the page, the website is in Japanese and my have to translate:
Megum Fujii
probably felt, there is something she can do, and also, something she should do as one of the leaders of the industry.
Especially after what Megumi and her fellow fighters went through last year.
I am talking about how Smack Girl folded last year and that left almost all women MMA fighters in Japan with nowhere to fight, meaning nowhere to work.
At that point, DEEP was the only other Japanese promotion that was doing women’s MMA bouts but those spots are basically only for champions of DEEP which are MIKU and Satoko Shinashi.
Therefore the end of Smack Girl realistically meant complete unemployment for all girls in a sport called MMA in Japan.
And this terrible situation continued for a little over six months.
Imagine going through rigorous training everyday but not knowing if you can ever compete again?
“But this is the time we all have to train even harder so we can be prepare for anything. And also, this can be a good time to reevaluate myself both technically and mentally.”
That is what Megumi told me at the time. She was still training all the time, and is getting ready in case someone knocks on her door with a fight offer.
But training was not the only thing she did when Smack Girl closed its operation.
Megumi founded a publication that is specializing in covering women’s MMA.
Yes instead of just training and fighting she also stepped up to promote the entire industry.
It’s nothing extravagant nor fancy nor high budget.
But its more than apparent that this is her effort to do something for the sport she loves.
Megumi distributes this publication at shows but mainly it is available on the web. It consists of fighter’s interviews, event schedules, reports and photos from shows, to even very intriguing columns like “how to defend yourself with MMA techniques when you are assaulted by a thug.”
Its all about women’s MMA and needless to say it’s always good to have somewhere to go and check if you want to know anything about women’s MMA.
It maybe be surprising to some but in Japan there are no other publications that only cover’s women’s MMA so it’s still small but I must say, the publication is indeed historical and extremely meaningful for the sport.
By the way, the publication is called “Fight Again” and from the title, you can tell that it is about not letting women’s MMA die in Japan. Fighters will keep on fighting to keep the sport alive. And it’s also about all female MMA fighters’ wishes, which is to be able to fight again, and again, and again.
Fight Again-
http://fightagain.web.fc2.com/
fightergirls.com boards are saying that
Well it looks like Carano & Cyborg will go 5 for 5 after all.
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Five Ounces of Pain has learned that Strikeforce’s Aug. 15 women’s title bout between Gina Carano and Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos will go a full five rounds.
Ever better: Strikeforce has confirmed to ESPN that rounds will be a full five minutes in duration. About time. There appears to be evidence that females have a 10-15 percent lower oxygen consumption rate than men do, which conceivably could limit the kind of interval and muscular endurance performance that MMA demands, but is it really by so much that they needed competition duration reduced by nearly half?
Hopefully, subsequent women’s bouts will follow suit. If any division is in need of curtailed rounds for the safety of participants, it’s the sloppy super heavyweights. A blended cheeseburger is not a proper postworkout recovery drink.
MarQ, columnist for fightergirls.com has another great article up check it out here: Shayna Baszler – Slight of Hand
This is the official press release from strikeforce:
LONG AWAITED STRIKEFORCE CHAMPIONSHIP SHOWDOWN
WITH CRIS “CYBORG” MARKS BIGGEST WOMEN’S FIGHT IN HISTORY
Saturday, August 15, Live on SHOWTIME at 10:30 p.m. ET/PT
From HP Pavilion, San Jose, Calif.;
Tickets Go On Sale Monday
NEW YORK (June 9, 2009)–After an eight month hiatus, mixed martial arts’ (MMA) leading lady, the undefeated and extremely popular Gina “Conviction” Carano (7-0) will compete in the first fight of her multi-fight agreement with STRIKEFORCE and is set to square off with rival powerhouse Cris “Cyborg” (7-1) in what is one of the most eagerly anticipated battles of all time, Saturday, August 15, live on SHOWTIME® at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, Calif.
Carano and Cyborg, the consensus two best female fighters in the world, will be the first women in MMA history to headline a major MMA fight card. In addition, they will fight for the first STRIKEFORCE 145-pound Female Championship.
“I’m really excited to be coming back and to have a new home with Strikeforce,” said the 27-year-old Carano, whose combination of stunning looks and athleticism have cemented her role as the face of women’s MMA. In a Yahoo! online poll that named the “Top 10 Influential Women of 2008,” Carano ranked fifth, placing ahead of First Lady Michelle Obama and famed journalists Katie Couric and Barbara Walters.
“I’ve wanted this fight with Cyborg for a long time and so have the fans so it was important to me that it happen in my first fight back. I’ve been training hard the last few months and come August 15, I will be in the best shape of my life. This fight will absolutely deliver on all the hype.”
The live SHOWTIME telecast of STRIKEFORCE: “Carano vs. Cyborg” will begin at 10:30 p.m. ET/PT (tape delayed on the west coast) and will include up to five bouts.
Tickets for STRIKEFORCE: “Carano vs. Cyborg,” priced from $30, go on sale Monday at 10 a.m. PT at the HP Pavilion box office (408-287-7070) as well as at all Ticketmaster locations (800-745-3000), Ticketmaster online (www.ticketmaster.com <https://mail.svse.net/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.ticketmaster.com/> ), and the official STRIKEFORCE website (www.strikeforce.com <https://mail.svse.net/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.strikeforce.com/> ).
Carano has soared to superstardom over the last two years while dominating opponents live on CBS and SHOWTIME. She raised her profile further during a stint as “Crush” on NBC’s athletic competition series American Gladiators. Carano is represented by Wasserman Media Group.
The matchup with Cyborg will be the second start of Carano’s career under the STRIKEFORCE banner. On December 8, 2006, she turned the tides on a determined Elaina Maxwell, a protégé of Cung Le, and pulled out a unanimous judges’ decision at STRIKEFORCE: “Triple Threat.”
The media has emphatically shown its appreciation for Carano’s individuality. She has been prominently featured in a number of national magazines including Muscle And Fitness and Maxim. Big Biz Magazine voted her “The Hottest Woman In America” in its Spring 2008 issue and Maxim ranked her number 16 in its Hot 100 list published in May 2009. Carano has also been profiled in the popular ESPN documentary series E:60.
The 23-year-old Cyborg, who hails from Brazil, has established herself as Carano’s top rival by leveraging her superior strength and striking skills to pummel opponents. In her last start, also her Strikeforce debut, Cyborg manhandled Hitomi Akano on April 11, stalking and battering the Japanese fighter before finishing Akano at the 35 second mark of the third round.
Cyborg is a member of Brazil’s famed Chute Boxe fight squad and trains alongside her husband and fellow Strikeforce competitor, Evangelista “Cyborg.”
After co-promoting two events live on SHOWTIME in 2007 and 2008, STRIKEFORCE in March 2009 signed a multi-year agreement to stage live MMA events on the premium cable television network.
Carano vs Cyborg
fightersgirls.com, Rosi Sexton is a great influence in the UK and US check out the article here: Rosi “The Surgeon” Sexton.
Sarah Kaufman has a fan page at Facebook sign up if you have Facebook: FanPage
Check out this weird interview with Gina Carano
Yesterday at SportsGeeks, Rammy and MarQ columnist from fightergirls.com got into the life of Shayna and her upcoming fight against Sarah Kaufman check out the interveiw here: SportsGeeks
Shayna Baszler MMA fighter Strikforce
This is great news, I cannot wait to see the fight on internet.
LaTasha Marzolla got two of her three wishes granted Saturday night at the Orleans arena.
She won her pro mixed martial arts debut and was rewarded with a vodka cocktail after her first-round victory over Christy Tada at the all day Tuff-N-Uff extravaganza.
But the whole fixing her face thing might take a little time to get right.
“You look fine, just put some cool glasses on,” said good friend and top female fighter Gina Carano as the two celebrated in the locker room afterwards.
“It was really crazy after taking three years off. I had a lot of nerves, a lot of anxiety,” said Marzolla, who had lost her last sanctioned fight a Muay Thai affair three years ago at the Bellagio. “I couldn’t sleep at all last night.
“It was hard getting back out there, kind of a battle within myself. But no matter how hard it was I was going to make it through it.”
She did although she had a couple of facial bruises to prove it after Tada tagged her in the early going. Tada, who fights for the Hawaiian Fighting Arts, pushed the action, rushing Marzolla from the onset. The two exchanged for several seconds. Marzolla was hit a few times cleanly, but then delivered several blows herself. The second time the two exchanged a confident Marzolla clearly had control as she roughed up Tada.
The two exchanged one last time in the opening round, and blow by Marzolla did significant damage as Tada’s corner stopped the fight before the second-round bell.
“It was better than I thought because I’ve never seen a crowd stand up like that. Even though it was hard in the fight, the crowd’s energy empowered me to dig deep down,” said Marzolla, who plans to fight on Tuff-N-Uff’s all-female card in July.
“I want to take this as far as I can and be champ.”
Carano said she was proud of her friend for not only showing the strength to get back in the ring after her long break from fighting when she had a daughter two years ago, but also the character to prove people wrong that Marzolla is “just another pretty face.
“It takes a certain type of individual to get in there in the first place, but then to have the extra pressure of being a pretty girl is really tough,” said Carano of Marzolla, who was Playboy’s special editions model of the year in 2004.
“I used to get so mad when people would tell her she’s so beautiful and why is she fighting. But she taught me that you got to push that all aside and still get in there and fight. It was obvious to me that she was able to get rid of all the distractions and just went in there and fought.”
While the crowd wasn’t on his side nearly as much as they were on Marzolla’s, Larry Mir, the cousin of UFC interim heavyweight champ Frank Mir, also had a successful MMA debut when he defeated Samual Varrin by split decision.
The fight was a technical one as Mir won the first-round with some well-timed striking and ground action, but became a technical defensive fighter over the second and third stanzas.
“I think he did extremely well with the pressure of being his first fight, and on the main card, and obviously the name thing,” said Frank Mir with a laugh.
“Maybe he could have let loose and ended with a kill at the end, but that’s something he can work on. But he fought very smart and technical, which is very hard to do your first fight.”
Wins her MMA Debut
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