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By Yael Grauer
Fight results, upcoming bouts, and WMMA news for the week.
By Bryanna Fissori
Sara McMann v. Hitomi Akano – ProElite 3
Sara McMann (4-0-0) is returning to Honolulu, Hawaii for her second MMA bout with the ProElite promotion.
“Fighting in Hawaii? Love it!,” McMann told Fightergirls.com. “It is way better than all the colder places i fight on mainland.”
This past Tuesday, National Geographic's Taboo show featured women's MMA fighter, Tisha Rodrigues and Jill Valenzuela.
"Taboo takes viewers on a journey beyond their comfort zones and across cultural borders to explore addictions and lifestyles that are acceptable in some cultures but forbidden, illegal, or even reviled in others. Each hour-long episode examines a topic from a variety of cultures and perspectives, venturing into closed worlds rarely seen."
By Jennifer L. Vaughn
Her alarm goes off at 6am most mornings just like other working Americans as she rises to tend to her two daughters before her day begins at the office. After kissing her 4 and 5 year old daughters and husband goodbye for the day, Latoia Smith then works from about 8am to 5pm as an Assistant Manager at a local apartment complex in Oklahoma City, OK. So what is so unique about Latoia?
By Yael Grauer
MMA news, updates, fight results, announcements, and footage.
Rousey vs. Tate: An Important Fight for Women's MMA? 1/10/2012
Weekly Women's MMA Wrap-Up: January 9, 2012 1/7/2012
'Cyborg' Santos Tests Positive for Steroids 1/7/2012
Bryanna Fissori Interview 1/12/2012
Interview - Tiffany VanSoest to Bring Women’s MMA to China 5/26/2011
Podcast - Julie Kedzie Talks Fight with Nunes 5/25/2011
Rousey vs. Tate: An Important Fight for Women's MMA? 1/10/2012
'Cyborg' Santos Tests Positive for Steroids 1/7/2012
Women's MMA In the News 1/5/2012
Bryanna Fissori Interview 1/12/2012
More Mega Megu! 1/3/2012
Girls Compete for FREE at the Next GQ! 12/26/2011
Girls Compete for FREE at the Next GQ! 12/26/2011
Fighter Girls Sponsored Athlete, Allanah Boyum 12/20/2011
Woot! Woot! Go Elyse!! 12/6/2011
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My name is Debi Purcell. I am a professional female Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) Fighter, trained by the legendary Marco Ruas. I am the founding mother of FighterGirls.com, the original and first web site in the world solely dedicated to female fighting, including women's MMA (mixed martial arts), Muay Thai, Kickboxing, Boxing, Grappling, and Wrestling.
Female fighting has been slow to start and finding our place amongst the male warriors has sometimes been a struggle. In 2001, when there was little interest in women's MMA, FighterGirls.com was born as a way to help grow and evolve this sport and other fighting sports for the women. Since then, our beloved sport has exploded and female MMA, right along with it. Thanks to many people, female fighters have come a long way and you will now find most MMA shows in America and Japan feature women's MMA matches. FighterGirls.com has evolved with the sport and we now have a complete database of professional and amateur female fighters, a female fight school finder, a complete clothing line with rash guards, board shorts, and vale tudo shorts and one of the biggest and best female martial arts forums/message boards on the planet. In short, if you want to know anything about female MMA, Muay Thai, Kickboxing, Boxing, Grappling, and Wrestling, you have come to the right place.
My hope with FighterGirls.com has and always will be to help the women fighters network with each other and have a place for the promoters to find female fighters. It has always been a hope and dream to have the match ups evolve with the sport. This site is dedicated to the female warriors, whether their sport is MMA, Muay Thai, Boxing, Kickboxing, Grappling, or Wrestling, all deserve respect and acknowledgment.
FighterGirls.com also strives to help movie and TV producers looking for females to appear in their shows. I have spoken with a few agents and producers and to my amazement, I learned it is hard for them to find women fighters that can actually fight. In the near future, I will be including a female fighter line of training gear to go with our growing selection of shirts and shorts. There is still much work to be done, and I know I am only scratching the surface, but with everyone's help I think this could work. I am in no way trying to segregate MMA and other fighting sports between females and males. I have the utmost respect for the male fighters in this sport. Without them, I doubt any of us would have learned most of what we know. I am just trying to make it a bit easier for us girls! Thanks ladies - YOU KICK A**!
Debi Purcell
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