The big argument has begun in our forums about who is the best pound for pound fighter in the world. There are currently three contenders for the title - Tara LaRosa, Sarah Kaufman, and Cyborg Santos.

Cyborg has a 145 title to hang around her waste, and hasn't lost since her first fight. With great wins over ranked fighters Vanessa Porto, Shayna Baszler, Hitomi Akano, and Gina Carano, she hasn't found too much competition to match her. However, the 145 pound division isn't as deep as the 135 pound division and with the weight being a factor in the Hitomi fight, people are weary of giving her the title.

Sarah Kaufman is currently undefeated, and can easily claim to be the uncrowned 135 pound champ. However, the only ranked fighter Kaufman has faced was Shayna Baszler, and has shown some weaknesses in her last two fights.

This brings us to Tara LaRosa. With her 18-1 record, and her 14 match win streak, LaRosa is going to be hard to stop. She has faced ranked opponents Shayna Baszler, Kelly Kobold, Hitomi Akano, and Roxanne Modafferi. She has a three years experience on both, and is a very well rounded fighter. She can bang with you standing, and out grapple you on the ground.

In this arm chair quarterback's mind, LaRosa is the P4P champ. 

 In football, it helps to be big and strong. In basketball you need to be tall and fast. Baseball takes reflexes. Soccer takes endurance. But what if you don't have those athletic skills? I give you jiu-jitsu.

It may look intimidating and "not as cool" as the striking martial arts, but it is something people of any size and skill level can do. No matter how tall, short, muscular, or flabby you are, it doesn't matter if you are on a jiu-jitsu mat. Watching the ADCC competition this year, I saw people of all different sizes and shapes competing to be world champions.

And talk about a workout! It may look like not much of one, but once you start rolling, you start to get a lot of low impact exercise and before you know it you are working a sweat.

The big thing about getting in jiu-jitsu is that it has more benefit then trying to do a spinning or any type or aerobics class. Just think about it. Do you think a spinning class or an aerobics glass can help you when you need to defend yourself? And with a possible assailant possibly being bigger and faster than you; jiu-jitsu helps equal out the situation.

Jiu-jitsu has become popular over the past few decades thanks to the popularity of mixed martial arts, but word has been getting around to women to start up in the sport. From a lot of different gyms and dojos I have been talking to, women’s enrollment keeps increasing steadily. As women’s mma becomes more main stream and more guys have their girlfriends and wives get involved, word is spreading. We are also seeing more women fighters coming from the grappling disciplines (including amateur wrestling) into mma. With the increase in women involved with high school wrestling comes increased interesting in their sister fighting system.

 No disrespect to Thai boxing, karate, or any of the striking arts, but if you want to try out a martial art, jiu-jitsu Once you roll, you’ll never stop.

 After a long hiatus, Bob the Fight Blog is back. Bigger, badder, and more brash. Call it Bob 2.0 as it were.

I have been watching with great vigor the development in the women's mma world since my hiatus, and was excited to see that the women's division is advancing into the main stream. But here is my question of the week...

Does Strikeforce know what it is doing?

Traditional fans you would say no way Jose in the 135 pound division. Why? Because a lot of ranked fighters in the division have not been signed to Strikeforce, and a lot of not so experienced fighters are getting their shot- the exceptions being Shayna Baszler and #1 ranked Sarah Kaufman. The reason being - 135 is the depository for marketable females in the sport - Kerry Vera and Kim Couture being the two prime examples.

Is this bad? Yea and no. When a great ranked fight like Coenen vs. Toughill is put on an non-televised undercard in one event while Vera vs. Couture is main-eventing another is simply just wrong. The fans wanna see a great fight and from what people have been saying, Couture vs. Vera is one sided.

On the marketing aspect I see where they are going. Kim has already a marketable name, as well as Kerry. But Strikeforce must tread lightly. EliteXC put a marketable Kimbo Slice in the forefront and wound up going under. Gimmicks work in the short term. Great fighters work in the long term.

That being said; Scott Coker and the crew at Strikeforce are shroud business people. We are at a point now where the men's division is also being built up, and money is something they can't spend frantically. A lot of ranked fighters may have to consider getting less or possible getting a one fight deal to get on national tv. It is a shame that women haven't been getting paid as much as the men, but give it time. Women's mma is a marketing superpower and Strikefocre needs time to raise money to hire more fighters. For now, the cheaper, more marketable fighters will get the fans in their seats.

Bottom line - I think we are all in agreement that Strikeforce needs to put at least one of the women's division fights in the main card - they are a ratings getter. So let's get things in order Strikeforce. The women's mma fans want to see televised fights no matter who it is. We'll complain about quality later.