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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 ...
UFC has added a women's strawweight division that is set at 115 lbs. [4] Carla Esparza became the inaugural UFC Women's Strawweight Champion at The Ultimate Fighter: A Champion Will Be Crowned Finale on December 12, 2014. The Association of Boxing Commissions officially added the 115 lb strawweight division on July 29, 2015. [5] [6]
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.
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.
California officially sanctioned MMA on December 28, 2005, using the ruleset it helped devise five years previously. [ 2 ] Since then, to create uniformity, all state commissions in the United States that regulate mixed martial arts have assimilated these rules into their existing unarmed combat competition rules and statutes.
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.
Shooto is a Japan-based mixed martial arts (MMA) promoting and sanctioning organization founded first in 1985 as a particular fighting system, and then in 1989 as an MMA promotion. Shooto used to promote different weight classes than the Association of Boxing Commissions , which are used by most MMA promotions.
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 ...