There has been a growing awareness of women in mixed martial arts due to popular female fighters and personalities such as Megumi Fujii, Gina Carano, Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos, Ronda Rousey, Miesha Tate, Amanda Nunes and Joanna Jędrzejczyk and among others.

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The UFC’s decision to allow female fighters in the organization, to promote the then dominant fighter Ronda Rousey, is often cited as the reason women’s mixed martial arts became known to the general public.

Last but not least in our compilation of the most beautiful female UFC fighters of 2021 is a Russian mixed martial artist Yana Kunitskaya. Kunitskaya is one of the veterans of women’s mixed martial arts, she is been professionally competing since 2009. As of now, Yana is #8 ranked in UFC’s women’s bantamweight division. Mixed martial arts (MMA) sometimes referred to as cage fighting, is a full-contact combat sport based on striking, grappling and ground fighting, incorporating techniques from various combat sports and martial arts from around the world. The first documented use of the term mixed martial arts was in a review of UFC 1 by television critic Howard Rosenberg in 1993.

Strikeforce became the first major promotion in the United States to have held a female fight as the main event on August 15, 2009. The fight between Carano and Cristiane Santos attracted 856,000 viewers. Santos made history with her victory over Carano as she became the first Strikeforce Women’s 145 lb Champion.

In the State of Florida it is a known fact amongst the promoters that “Female Fights” sell tickets. The challenging part is to find female MMA fighters that have built up their amateur fighting carear, to then go Pro, and put on a good show for the fans.

RARE MAN VS WOMAN MMA MIXED MARTIAL ARTS FIGHT by AdrianM. MMA FIGHT: GIRL VS GUY (Girls Wins via 1st round submission). Male vs Female boxing mixed fight scene Part 2.

In 2019 less then 1% made up fights in the State of Florida. Out of the 306 Pro Fighters who fought in Florida, only 16 were females. Making up 0.05% of the female fighter statistics.

Does Florida have a track record of amateur female fighters going Pro?There has been a line of successful amateur female fighters such as:

Valerie Lourda, who fought for Combat Night went Pro with Bellator.

Jessica “The Black Widow” Borga had 10 amateur fights before signing with 2 major companies – Titan FC and Bellator.

Claudia Zamora put her 5 fight winning streak as an amateur, to go Pro with spanish promoter Combate Americas.

Trisha Cicero who was undefeated in her amateur career at XFN went Pro with Titan Fighting Championship.

Moving up the amateur ranks is Anne Ribeiro, who is the daughter of MMA Fighter “BigFoot” Silva. Ribeiro has three fights with XFN and one with combat night. We llok forward to seeing what she can do in the Pro league.

It doesn’t look like Florida is short of female amateur fighters, its turning Pro and making it a career that might be low in numbers. Question would be, How many amateur female fighters go Pro and when they do, How many go on to make it a career and fight for Big Promotions…and how many just stop for what ever reason?

We will be watching to see if in 2020 there is an increase in female fighters in Florida. It truly falls on the Gym’s and the passion and desire of the fighter to be one.

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The UFC’s women’s divisions have been around for quite some time now but it wasn’t too long ago that there were no women’s fights and it didn’t seem like that would ever change.

Nowadays, though, the UFC women’s fights often tend to be the most exciting fights on the card. They’re all highly skilled too and pretty much on the same level with the men, technique-wise. But, a woman could still never fight a man in an MMA fight and be competitive, right?

In this video, we see that very scenario take place as female MMA fighter, named Sherisse Subero, takes on a male opponent and it doesn’t go like you’d necessarily expect.

This exhibition match took place at event ‘MMA in Paradise 4’ in the British Virgin Islands and while you can tell the man isn’t going quite 100%, he’s definitely putting at least a little effort into it.

Female vs male MMA fight – does NOT go as expected

Mixed Martial Arts Male Vs Female

For the woman, training and competing against male opponents is probably actually good for self-defense training purposes as it would prepare you for a real-world encounter versus a man who wishes to harm you.

But for the man, it kind of makes you wonder why he would ever agree to such a match as it really is a lose-lose situation. Perhaps he lost a best or he’s doing it for some other ulterior purpose but whatever the case, it’s just not a good look.

With that being said, though, sometimes it’s interesting to speculate how some elite-level female MMA fighters would do against a male opponent. Some might not do too bad, I’d reckon.

Cris Cyborg, for instance, is one such female fighter who could probably hang with her male featherweight counterparts but it could probably never happen, at least in the UFC.

Anyways, check out the above video to see how the female does against a male opponent, you may very well be surprised.

Male V Female Mma

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