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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.
Francine Meeks (née Fournier; born February 19, 1972), known by the mononym Francine, is an American professional wrestling valet and professional wrestler.She is best known for her appearances with Extreme Championship Wrestling from 1995 to 2001 and with World Wrestling Entertainment in 2005 and 2006.
The average pay for women at the time was $15,000, compared to men's $38,000 per fight, which led to a lot of women being frustrated with their pay. Paige VanZant who is an MMA fighter spoke out about wage inequality in 2019 and said she wanted more money to "keep bleeding and sacrificing for this sport". [ 56 ]
Tara Nicole LaRosa (born January 8, 1978) [1] is an American mixed martial artist and grappler whose most high-profile successes occurred while competing in BodogFight, where she became the first and only BodogFight Women's Bantamweight (135 lbs) Champion.
BYB Extreme held its first event in England, BYB 12: London Brawl, on October 26, 2022. Aside from being the promotion's first event in the United Kingdom, BYB 12 also featured the first-ever women's bare-knuckle fights, highlighted by a title fight between Jozette Cotton and Miranda Barber for the BYB Women's Super Welterweight Championship.
The term catfight was recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary as the title and subject of an 1824 mock heroic poem by Ebenezer Mack. In the United States, it was first recorded as being used to describe a fight between women in an 1854 book written by Benjamin G. Ferris who wrote about Mormon women fighting over their shared husband.
In Mexico, professional wrestling is called lucha libre ("free fight"), and women wrestlers are called luchadoras. The Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), or World Wrestling Council, has a women's division. The top of the division is the CMLL World Women's Championship. Keiko "Bull" Nakano won the first CMLL championship in 1992.
Won the vacant Jungle Fight Women's Bantamweight Championship. Win 8–0 Dinha Wollstaein TKO (punches) Jungle Fight 59 October 12, 2013: 1 0:36 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Win 7–0 Monique Bastos Submission (keylock) Extreme Kombat 7 August 17, 2013: 1 2:58 Jacundá, Brazil Win 6–0 Marcia Silva Submission (guillotine choke) Gladiador Fight 3 May ...