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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.
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 ...
Now defunct promotions that featured female fighters were Strikeforce and EliteXC. [5] There has been a growing awareness of women in mixed martial arts due to popular female fighters and personalities such as Amanda Nunes, Megumi Fujii, Gina Carano, Ronda Rousey, Miesha Tate, Holly Holm, Alexa Grasso, and Joanna Jędrzejczyk and among others. [6]
The Invicta Fighting Championship also known as Invicta FC, is an American mixed martial arts (MMA) organization for female fighters. [1] It was founded in 2012 by Janet Martin and Shannon Knapp. [2] Each fight record has four categories: wins, losses, draws, and no-contests (NC). [3]
In fact, there’s a very strong argument to be made that Rousey is the most important fighter in the history of women’s MMA, and maybe in all of women’s fight sports.
Karen Alexa Grasso Montes [4] (born August 9, 1993) is a Mexican professional mixed martial artist who competes in the women's Flyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where she is the former UFC Women's Flyweight Champion.
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Mixed martial arts (MMA) is a form of competitive combat sport, akin to boxing, muay thai, or kick boxing. MMA titles, or championship belts, are given to those fighters deemed by a promotional organization to have met a certain standard of athletic accomplishment in a specific weight class (most often by means of a championship fight ...