Brazil’s first all-female mixed martial arts promotion, Pink Fight MMA, will hold its inaugural event on January 29th in Porto Seguro, Bahia, Brazil. The card is headlined by a 125-pound bout between Maria Elisabete Tavares and Kalindra Carvalho Faria and will also include five additional fights.
Pink Fight MMA is led by successful Jungle Fight promoter Wallid Ismail, a former fighter who competed for both the UFC and PRIDE in the early days of each company. He aims to provide a new platform for female fighters to compete in Brazil and hopes to stage additional events later this year.
2004 Olympic silver medallist Sara McMann put her wrestling skills to good use this evening in the co-main event of ProElite 3: “Grove vs Minowa” in Honolulu, Hawaii. McMann earned the biggest win of her MMA career and kept her perfect record intact by defeating Hitomi “Girlfight Monster” Akano.
Despite a lengthy layoff, Michelle “The Karate Hottie” Waterson made an impressive return to the cage tonight in the main event of Jackson’s MMA Series 7 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Waterson submitted Colorado-based prospect Diana “Dynamite” Rael with a rear-naked choke in round one.
ProElite returned to the Neal S. Blaisdell Center in Honolulu, Hawaii tonight for ProElite 3: “Grove vs Minowa.” The card was headlined by middleweight action with Kendall “Da Spyder” Grove and Ikuhisa “Minowaman” Minowa, and also featured Sara McMann taking on Hitomi “Girlfight Monster” Akano.
The seventh edition of the successful Jackson’s MMA Series took place tonight at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Tonight’s card was headlined by a women’s strawweight battle between Michelle “The Karate Hottie” Waterson and Diana “Dynamite” Rael.
The Ultimate Fighting Championship held its first event on the FX network tonight from the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee. UFC on FX 1: “Guillard vs Miller” was headlined by a lightweight bout between hard-hitting Melvin “The Young Assassin” Guillard and jiu-jitsu specialist Jim Miller.
Strikeforce tournament veteran Maiju “Mai” Kujala looks for her third straight victory when she takes on unbeaten Brazilian Juliana “Thai” Carneiro Lima at Revolution Fighting Champion 1 on March 9th. The targeted matchup, which Kujala announced earlier today, will take place in Beirut, Lebanon.
Jewels prospect Mizuki Inoue will compete in her third shoot boxing match when she faces current Shoot Boxing Japan Women’s Flyweight Champion Ai Takahashi on February 5th in Tokyo, Japan. The bout was confirmed on Wednesday and will be part of Shoot Boxing 2012: “Road To S-Cup, Act.1.”