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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 Global Fight League (GFL), originally announced as the World Fight League (WFL), launches in April 2025. GFL was founded by Darren Owen, who serves as the league's acting commissioner, and Arun Parimi, who serves as the league's chief operating officer, with the backing of Scott Parker, who serves as the chief marketing officer, and Jeffrey Pollack, who is the GFL's senior advisor.
Won the Pancrase 26th Neo Blood Strawweight Tournament. Win 2–0 Tomoki Otsuka Decision (unanimous) Pancrase 319 October 25, 2020: 3 5:00 Tokyo, Japan Pancrase 26th Neo Blood Strawweight Tournament Semifinal. Win 1–0 Masaya Oshiro Technical Submission (kimura) Pancrase 312 February 16, 2020: 1 4:51 Tokyo, Japan Strawweight debut.
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 ...
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. [2] [3] The GFL’s fighter-centric model is expected to include fighter health and injury insurance, a structured retirement fund and a 50% event-specific revenue share with the fighters. [4]
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 ...
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.
Kill Cliff FC, officially known as Kill Cliff Fight Club (formerly known as Sanford MMA, Hard Knocks 365, and Combat Club) [1] is a mixed martial arts gym based in Deerfield Beach, Florida. It was originally founded in 2017 by Henri Hooft and Greg Jones as Combat Club and later Hard Knocks 365 [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] before being rebranded to Sanford ...