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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:
Rose Gertrude Namajunas [7] (born June 29, 1992) is an American professional mixed martial artist.She currently competes in the women's Flyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), and is a former two-time UFC Women's Strawweight Champion.
The top female earner in 2020 was Amanda Nunes, who earned $350,000 plus $100,000 if she won the fight. [56] Conor McGregor is thought to have gotten about $3 million for each of his most recent fights. Another male MMA fighter, Alistair Overeem has recently been paid $800,000 for each match he has.
Amanda Lourenço Nunes (born May 30, 1988) is a Brazilian former professional mixed martial artist.She competed in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where she is the former UFC Women's Featherweight Champion and two-time UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion.
In November 2012, the Ultimate Fighting Championship announced that Rousey had become the first female fighter to sign with the UFC. [ 14 ] [ 81 ] UFC President Dana White officially announced at the UFC on Fox: Henderson vs. Diaz pre-fight press conference that Rousey was the first UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion .
Valentina Anatolyevna Shevchenko [b] (born March 7, 1988) is a Kyrgyz 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 is the second Mexican to win a UFC title after Brandon Moreno and the first Mexican woman to win a UFC championship. She is also a UFC analyst for UFC Español for Spanish broadcasts. [5] As of September 17, 2024, she is #1 in the UFC women's flyweight rankings and #3 in the UFC women's pound-for-pound rankings. [6]
Sinead Kavanagh is an Irish female mixed martial artist who competes in the Featherweight division of the Bellator MMA. Fight Matrix had her ranked #10 Women's Featherweight from April 2021 till July 2021, and March 2022.