A three-round battle between noted strikers Kaitlin Young and Leslie “The Peacemaker” Smith earned Fight of the Night honours on Saturday night at Invicta Fighting Championships 1 in Kansas City, Kansas. Both fighters pocketed an additional $1500 in bonuses for their performances.

Sarah “White Tiger” Schneider won an additional $1000 for her Submission of the Night-winning armbar of “Slick” Sally Krumdiack in the opening bout on the main card. Fellow Invicta FC winners Liz “Girl-Rilla” Carmouche and Jessica Penne also received $1000 in two Social Media bonuses.

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Invicta Fighting Championships staged a highly successful debut event on Saturday night at Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Kansas. The all-female card was headlined by a rematch between Marloes “Rumina” Coenen and Romy Ruyssen, with Coenen defeating her French adversary for a second time.

Jessica Penne put on the best performance of her career in her atomweight debut against battle-tested veteran Lisa Ellis in the Invicta FC 1 co-feature. Penne landed a devastating knee that hurt and badly bloodied Ellis in the final round, leading to an impressive TKO victory for the fast-rising star.

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2004 Olympic silver medallist and undefeated mixed martial artist Sara McMann takes on her toughest test to date when she faces submission ace Shayna “The Queen of Spades” Baszler in the main event of Invicta Fighting Championships 2. The event is targeted for July 28th in Kansas City.

McMann is coming off of a dominant decision win over former Smackgirl champ Hitomi “Girlfight Monster” Akano at ProElite 3 in January. Baszler has won four straight fights, but she has not fought since November 2010 after planned bouts with Alexis Davis and Kelly Kobold were scrapped.

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MMARising.com reports live from Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Kansas tonight for Invicta Fighting Championships 1. The all-female fight card was headlined by a rematch between former Strikeforce women’s bantamweight champion Marloes “Rumina” Coenen and French rival Romy Ruyssen.

Also on the card, Bellator veterans Jessica Penne and Lisa Ellis faced off in the atomweight co-main event. Former Strikeforce title challenger Liz “Girl-Rilla” Carmouche took on striker Ashleigh Curry in bantamweight action. MMARising.com has live play-by-play for Invicta Fighting Championship 1.

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Weigh-ins for the inaugural Invicta Fighting Championships event took place today at Hotel Phillips in Kansas City, Missouri. Main event fighters Marloes “Rumina” Coenen and Romy Ruyssen face off in a 145-pound rematch on the all-female card, which also features ten additional women’s bouts.

In the Invicta FC 1 co-main event, Jessica Penne and fellow Bellator veteran Lisa Ellis clash at 105 pounds. Other main card competitors include Liz “Girl-Rilla” Carmouche, Sarah “The Monster” D’Alelio and Kaitlin Young. MMARising.com has live coverage of today’s Invicta FC 1 weigh-ins.

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Brazilian standouts Carina “Beauty But The Beast” Damm and Claudia “Claudinha” Gadelha are set to face off in a featured women’s matchup at Legacy Fighting Championship 13 on August 17th at the Dallas Convention Center in Dallas, Texas. Legacy FC officials announced the bout today.

Damm has not fought since earning a first-round submission victory in July. She was set to face Bellator champ Zoila “The Warrior Princess” Gurgel in November, but the bout was scrapped when Gurgel tore her ACL. Gadelha took a Split Decision win over Valérie Létourneau earlier this month.

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A 105-pound title fight between Stephanie “Macaquinha” Frausto and Diana “Dynamite” Rael headlines the inaugural Women’s Fighting Championship event on May 12th in Casper, Wyoming. MMARising.com confirmed details of the five-round title tilt with a source close to the negotiations tonight.

The all-female fight card also features a rematch between rivals Stephanie “The Scrapper” Skinner and Brittany Nipper, who first faced off in February. Skinner stopped Nipper late in the second round of the action-packed Fight of the Night battle and looks for her second straight win in the rematch.

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2011 Shoot Boxing Girls S-Cup Champion Erika Kamimura and tournament runner-up Seo Hee Ham will face off in a rematch under kickboxing rules at Rise 88 on June 2nd in Tokyo, Japan. Rise officials announced the bout on Tuesday. The winner moves on to challenge Rise Queen Rena Kubota.

Kamimura and Ham first met under shoot boxing rules in the finals of the 2011 Girls S-Cup this past August. Down on the scorecards, Kamimura scored a knockdown in the third and final round that proved to be enough to give her a razor-thin Unanimous Decision victory and the Girls S-Cup title.

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