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Cristiane Cyborg Santos Gets Strikeforce Fight for December 19th

November 4, 2009

Strikeforce is making some more headway in showcasing women’s MMA by scheduling Cris “Cyborg” Santos’s next fight for December 19th. The date is not yet confirmed, but Five Ounces of Pain reports that Cyborg’s husband Evangelista will also be making his 17o lb debut on the same card. Cris’s opponent won’t be Erin Toughill (who [...]

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Grandma Wants a Fight

October 28, 2009

This is fantastic. I can’t wait to hear how this powerful 49-year-old from Walla Walla, Washington does in the cage. Her name is DeEtta Peterson, and she’s been training in jiu jitsu and MMA for four years and is an instructor at her home gym, Calhoon’s. She narrowly missed out on a debut in the [...]

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Roy Nelson Defeats Kimbo Slice

October 1, 2009

I’m new to MMA, and to look at these two fighters, I immediately picked Kimbo Slice — in all his big, cut, scary glory — as the potentially superior fighter to fat-bellied Roy Nelson. Nelson has skinny arms, less reach, more gut, and he just screams “redneck.” Of course Slice (whose real name is Kevin [...]

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What Mayweather’s Fight Really Means

September 21, 2009

Boxing is stuck in the 20th century. And I mean firmly stuck. You only have to see the meteoric rise of MMA to realize that the sweet science can’t, won’t, and actively refuses to keep up. And boxing has such history, art, legends, grit, beauty, strength, and such heart it’s a shame to see it [...]

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Gina Carano to Star in Soderbergh Movie

September 15, 2009

Yes, she’s a beast in the MMA cage, even with her recent loss in a Strikeforce title fight with Cris Cyborg Santos last month. Yes, she’s undeniably gorgeous. But I’m gonna hold back judgment on whether sticking her in a Steven Soderbergh movie is going to be good or bad for women’s fighting. Word is [...]

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New Playlist for Boxing Training

September 5, 2009

One of my super-tough MMA chick friends (who will box with me periodically and who is helping me learn ju jitsu: fist bump Junie!) sent me a few suggestions for refreshing my quickly-getting-tiresome Shuffle playlist for training. Her main additions to my existing soup were: Nine Inch Nails, Head Like a Hole Alice in Chains, [...]

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Fight Night: Battle at the Expo 2

August 30, 2009

I will never be an MMA fighter. One tiny slip-up that another fighter can take advantage of, and boom, you’re in a arm bar or choke hold or whatever, and you’re tapping out and all those months of training for a fight vanish in a flash, leaving you blinking in the aftermath. Nope, not me. [...]

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Cyborg Defeats Carano in First Round

August 16, 2009

The “Muy Thai Machine” and “Baddest Woman South of the Equator” Cris Cyborg Santos definitely earned her title in the single round she fought with reigning favorite Gina Carano. Cyborg is known as an explosive, powerful fighter with perhaps less technical control and ability than Carano, and this proved accurate in the Strikeforce fight. I [...]

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Carano and Cyborg Weigh In on Target

August 15, 2009

Gina Carano and Cris Cyborg Santos stripped to their underwear and stepped onto the scales for a standing-room only crowd at the San Hose Marriot last night; Carano with an easy, almost embarassed smile and Cyborg with her customary scowl. Both fighters have been the cause of abundant speculation and buzz, having failed to make [...]

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Fiiiight! Gina Carano and Cris Cyborg

August 10, 2009

This Saturday it happens. Gina “Conviction” Carano (7-0) and Cris “Cyborg” Santos (7-1) will become the first women in MMA history to headline a major MMA fight card. I don’t know if you watch boxing or MMA, but if you watch women’s sports at all this is going to be a groundbreaking event across the [...]

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