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The 2025 Fight for the Fallen was a professional wrestling television special produced by All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It was the sixth Fight for the Fallen charity event and was held on New Year's Day on January 1, 2025, at Harrah's Cherokee Center in Asheville, North Carolina and aired live as a special episode of Wednesday Night Dynamite on TBS as well as the streaming service Max in the ...
MMA competition requires training in striking, wrestling and submission fighting. This is a list of notable female mixed martial arts fighters in alphabetical order.
The fight between Gina Carano and Cristiane Santos, known professionally as Cris Cyborg, attracted 856,000 viewers. [42] Santos made history with her victory over Carano as she became the first Strikeforce Women's 145 lb Champion. Invicta Fighting Championships in early 2012 became one of the first major women's pro mma organisations. [43] [44]
Fighting Woman News was an American feminist periodical founded in December 1975 by Valerie Eads. This newsletter grew out of Eads's regular column in Black Belt Woman. [1] This magazine focused on martial arts, self-defense, and combative sports for and by women. [2] [3] It published news and articles on techniques, workshops, and events. [4]
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 her second fight for the promotion, Garcia faced Anna Malyukova at Rizin Fighting Federation 1 on April 17, 2016. She won the fight via armbar submission in the second round. [citation needed] For her third fight with Rizin, Garcia faced Destanie Yarbrough at Rizin World Grand-Prix 2016: 1st Round on September 25, 2016. She won the fight via ...
Harrison would win the fight by an armbar in the first round. [31] Harrison faced Larissa Pacheco in rematch for the Women's Lightweight final at PFL 10 on December 31, 2019. [32] After dominating every round with her superior grappling, Harrison won the fight by unanimous decision to win the 2019 Women's Lightweight Championship. [33]
Invicta Fighting Championships, also known as Invicta FC, is an American professional mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion dedicated to women's mixed martial arts that was founded in 2012 by Janet Martin and Shannon Knapp.