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MMA competition requires training in striking, wrestling and submission fighting. This is a list of notable female mixed martial arts fighters in alphabetical order. Contents:
In November 2012, the Ultimate Fighting Championship announced that Rousey had become the first female fighter to sign with the UFC. [ 14 ] [ 81 ] UFC President Dana White officially announced at the UFC on Fox: Henderson vs. Diaz pre-fight press conference that Rousey was the first UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion .
Widely regarded as one of the greatest female mixed martial artists of all time, [12] [13] Nunes is the first and only woman to become a two-division UFC champion, and the third fighter to hold UFC titles in two weight classes simultaneously, after Conor McGregor and Daniel Cormier. She is also the only fighter in UFC history to defend two ...
Ailín Pérez, an MMA fighter from Argentina, won via submission with an arm triangle choke against Russian fighter Daria Zhelezniakova on Saturday (September 28). Combat sports fans were stunned ...
Professional Fighters League female fighters (8 P) Ultimate Fighting Championship female fighters (185 P) A. American female mixed martial artists (1 C, 166 P)
Garcia appeared as a guest coach for Wanderlei Silva on The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil 3. Garcia was at one point scheduled to face Megumi Yabushita for the Japanese promotion Real Fight Championship. This bout, however, fell through. [22] Garcia was then scheduled to make her MMA debut with Jungle Fight in March 2015. [23]
Valentina Anatolyevna Shevchenko [b] (born March 7, 1988) is a Kyrgyz and Peruvian professional mixed martial artist, former Muay Thai fighter and kickboxer.She currently competes in the women's Flyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where she is a two-time and current UFC Women's Flyweight Champion and both the first Kyrgyz and Peruvian fighter to win a UFC championship.
Herrig appeared on Fight Girls in 2007 on the Oxygen and won her fight in Thailand against a champion Thai fighter. [11] She was later scheduled to appear on another reality show about women's MMA called the Ultimate Women Challenge. [11] Herrig faced Iman Achhal at UWC: Man "O" War on February 21, 2009, in her MMA debut.