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While mixed martial arts is primarily a male dominated sport, it does have female athletes. For instance, Female competition in Japan includes promotions such as DEEP Jewels.Now defunct promotions that featured female fighters were Valkyrie, and Smackgirl. Professional mixed martial arts organizations in the United States that invite women to compete are industry leader Ultimate Fighting. WMMA.news is a website whose sole focus is the evolving sport of Women’s mixed martial arts. As a result of the UFC’s rapid growth around the world over the course of 20 years, MMA moved into mainstream public awareness. Other organizations like Invicta FC, Strikeforce, and Bellator MMA have also been instrumental in widening the scope and popularity of WMMA by providing female athetes a. Mixed martial arts (MMA) sometimes referred to as cage fighting, is a full-contact combat sport based on striking, grappling and ground fighting, incorporating techniques from various combat sports and martial arts from around the world. The first documented use of the term mixed martial arts was in a review of UFC 1 by television critic Howard Rosenberg in 1993.
If you are on the UG, you probably remember that crazy female vs. male no-rules fight on YouTube. You may recall too that it was part of the crazy Rio Heroes events that were eventually shut down by the authorities. It was a return to the craziest days of the sport, with stomps, headbutts, no gloves, and this once, a woman fighting a man. You may even know that that woman was Invicta bantamweight Ediane Gomes, 36.
What you don’t know is the full story, as until now, it hasn’t been told. Thanks once again to Ben Fowlkes and MMAJunkie!
Earlier in her life, Gomes was a drug addict living on the streets of Rio. Her life changed when she met Jorge “Macaco” Patino, himself a veteran of some of the craziest vale-tudo fights ever. At the time of the video, Gomes was trying to break into the MMA business, and the $250 to show and $250 more to win offered by Rio Heroes owner Jorge Pereira was a massive incentive.
Her opponent was a Muay Thai instructor, who, luckily for her, had virtually no ground skills.
“I was out of control,” said Gomes in her native Portuguese. “All I (could) think about was getting high, and getting into trouble out in the streets.”
“I was passed around as a child. Some took care of me, others didn’t, and others left me in the streets.”
“‘Macaco’ saw my potential. He was one of many people who helped me so I could get away from drugs. I wouldn’t have made it without their help.”
“For me, fighting was survival. I came from the streets. I grew up fighting in the streets to survive. Imagine being paid for a change.”
“When I was first told about it, it was my understanding that it wouldn’t be a real fight. I thought we’d be pretending to fight for a movie. I didn’t know that much about fighting. When I arrived, I found out this was for real. I wasn’t sure I should be doing it. Then I found out I could get 250 American dollars to fight and $250 more if I won. That’s a lot of money in Brazil. A lot of MMA events in Brazil just pay a fraction of that. I figured I’d make some money even if I lost.”
“In reality, at the start of the fight, he was just playing. He was going easy at first, to see what I had to offer. After I punched in, he kicked me hard on the thigh. My leg wobbled. Then I realized that he was trying to knock me out. I decided I needed to survive this. This was no game.”
“Some people thought that was fake. There’s nothing fake about that guy picking me up and tossing me back down, hard. I landed on my spine. I could have broken my back. I thought he was crazy.”
“I wasn’t sure I could punch him effectively since my hands were so small by comparison, so I decided to headbutt him. I knew I could hit him harder with my head and open him up. He started panicking since he had no jiu-jitsu. That’s when I was able to isolate an arm.”
“I had managed to get clean off drugs, fight a man, and win. I had dreams of fighting jiu-jitsu on the world stage. It was also great to get the $250 to show and $250 to win. A lot of the Brazilian media made it seem like we were being exploited, but a lot of other competitions would literally pay nothing, by comparison. Maybe what I did wasn’t right, but at least we got paid.”
Gomes has come now as far as has anyone in mixed martial arts. And she has a lot of fans.
“After I lost (to Tonya Evinger at Invicta FC 8) I could hear a man’s voice in the crowd telling me I’m a good person,” said Gomes. “Often when I meet fans, they hug me. I’ve been told that even if we don’t speak the same language, they can tell I’m a good person. I’m treated very well in the United States. There’s no money in the world that can measure up to that.”
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Best Female Mixed Martial Artist
There has been a growing awareness of women in mixed martial arts due to popular female fighters and personalities such as Megumi Fujii, Gina Carano, Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos, Ronda Rousey, Miesha Tate, Amanda Nunes and Joanna Jędrzejczyk and among others.
The UFC’s decision to allow female fighters in the organization, to promote the then dominant fighter Ronda Rousey, is often cited as the reason women’s mixed martial arts became known to the general public.
Strikeforce became the first major promotion in the United States to have held a female fight as the main event on August 15, 2009. The fight between Carano and Cristiane Santos attracted 856,000 viewers. Santos made history with her victory over Carano as she became the first Strikeforce Women’s 145 lb Champion.
In the State of Florida it is a known fact amongst the promoters that “Female Fights” sell tickets. The challenging part is to find female MMA fighters that have built up their amateur fighting carear, to then go Pro, and put on a good show for the fans.
In 2019 less then 1% made up fights in the State of Florida. Out of the 306 Pro Fighters who fought in Florida, only 16 were females. Making up 0.05% of the female fighter statistics.
Does Florida have a track record of amateur female fighters going Pro?There has been a line of successful amateur female fighters such as:
Valerie Lourda, who fought for Combat Night went Pro with Bellator.
Jessica “The Black Widow” Borga had 10 amateur fights before signing with 2 major companies – Titan FC and Bellator.
Claudia Zamora put her 5 fight winning streak as an amateur, to go Pro with spanish promoter Combate Americas.
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Trisha Cicero who was undefeated in her amateur career at XFN went Pro with Titan Fighting Championship.
Moving up the amateur ranks is Anne Ribeiro, who is the daughter of MMA Fighter “BigFoot” Silva. Ribeiro has three fights with XFN and one with combat night. We llok forward to seeing what she can do in the Pro league.
It doesn’t look like Florida is short of female amateur fighters, its turning Pro and making it a career that might be low in numbers. Question would be, How many amateur female fighters go Pro and when they do, How many go on to make it a career and fight for Big Promotions…and how many just stop for what ever reason?
We will be watching to see if in 2020 there is an increase in female fighters in Florida. It truly falls on the Gym’s and the passion and desire of the fighter to be one.