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Super Fight League, an Indian MMA promotion, have been holding female strawweight fights at 105-115 pounds / 52.2 kilograms since SFL 17 in May 2013. [2] In Japan, Shooto regularly holds contests at that weight class and circulates a championship belt for the division. [3] UFC has added a women's strawweight division that is set at 115 lbs. [4]
The GFL is an American mixed martial arts league founded by venture capitalist Darren Owen in 2024 and will be launched in April 2025. [1] The league had a draft that kickstarted the promotion on January 24, 2025 and its first season is set to launch in April 2025 where teams will be city-based.
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 ...
Former UFC champion and the current No. 5 bantamweight contender Petr Yan (16-5, fighting out of Yekaterinburg, Russia) meets No. 7 Song Yadong (21-7-1 1 NC, fighting out of Heilongjiang, China ...
Carla Kristen Esparza [4] (born October 10, 1987) is an American former professional mixed martial artist and wrestler who most recently competed in the women's Strawweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), in which she is the former two-time UFC Women's Strawweight Champion.
Ribas faced Luana Pinheiro in a strawweight bout on November 18, 2023, at UFC Fight Night 232. [45] She won the fight via TKO in the third round. [46] This fight earned her the Performance of the Night award. [47] Ribas faced former UFC Women's Strawweight champion Rose Namajunas on March 23, 2024 in the main event, at UFC on ESPN 53. [48]
As the first bout of her new six-fight contract, Yan faced former UFC Women's Strawweight champion Jéssica Andrade on May 6, 2023, at UFC 288. [41] [42] [43] She won the fight via knockout in the first round. [44] Yan faced Zhang Weili for the UFC Women's Strawweight Championship on April 13, 2024, at UFC 300. [45] She lost the bout by ...
Max Holloway was already a UFC legend. He reached another level of greatness at UFC 300, and every fighter watching knew it.. In the waning seconds of a clinical performance against Justin Gaethje ...