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Previous Ranking: 9. 10. Henry Cejudo (16-3), UFC bantamweight contender. Previous Ranking: 10. Women’s MMA pound-for-pound rankings as of June 20. 1. Julianna Peña (12-5), UFC bantamweight ...
Previous Ranking: NR. Women’s MMA pound-for-pound rankings as of Nov. 27. 1. Julianna Peña (12-5), UFC bantamweight contender. Previous Ranking: 1. 2. Alexa Grasso (16-3), UFC flyweight ...
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.
Grasso faced Valentina Shevchenko on March 4, 2023, for the UFC Women's Flyweight Championship at UFC 285. [50] Despite being a heavy underdog, she won the bout and earned the title via a face crank in the fourth round. [51] This made her the first Mexican UFC women’s champion. [52] The win earned Grasso her first Performance of the Night ...
Following Zuffa's acquisition of Strikeforce in March 2011, there has been much speculation concerning the future of women's competition, in term both of relevance and popularity. [28] [29] The next step was for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) to pick up women's MMA, however UFC President Dana White was resistant. He has said, "There ...
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 ...
She was ranked #1 in the UFC women's pound-for-pound rankings [11] at the time of her retirement. 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 ...
Former UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion and former Raw Women's Champion Ronda Rousey. Emiko Raika - (Pancrase, Shooto, DEEP) Jessica Rakoczy - (Bellator, TPF, UFC) Germaine de Randamie - (UFC, Strikeforce) Alyona Rassohyna - Bec Rawlings - (UFC, Invicta) Elise Reed - Elena Reid - Marion Reneau - (UFC, TPF) Amanda Ribas -