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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. Contents:
Pages in category "Ultimate Fighting Championship female fighters" The following 186 pages are in this category, out of 186 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Ronda Rousey was a female fighter who sparked the popularity of women fighters. When she signed with the UFC in 2012, female fighting was not very popular and was not considered a sport for women. Ronda Rousey was able to open many people's eyes and prove Dana White, the president of the UFC very wrong.
The first of those defeats came via split decision, however, in what is deemed by most followers to be the greatest women’s fight in MMA history and one of the best the sport has seen, full stop.
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 ...
Jéssica Fernanda da Costa Andrade [8] (born September 25, 1991) is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist.She currently competes in the women's Strawweight and Flyweight divisions of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where she is a former UFC Women's Strawweight Champion.
Ailín Pérez, an MMA fighter from Argentina, won via submission with an arm triangle choke against Russian fighter Daria Zhelezniakova on Saturday (September 28). Combat sports fans were stunned ...
Ronda Jean Rousey (/ ˈ r aʊ z i / ROW-zee; [12] born February 1, 1987) is an American professional wrestler, actress, and former judoka and mixed martial artist. [13] She is best known for her tenures in Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and WWE.