UFC finally signs Holly Holm. What great news, yesterday evening Dana White announced over twitter that the UFC has finally signed the incredible Holly Holm!
UFC finally signs Holly Holm
Final 8 TUF 20 Cast Revealed
Final 8 TUF 20 Cast Revealed. The cast of TUF 20 has been revealed! For the first time, the entire cast of The Ultimate Fighter will be women, with 16 strawweights competing for the inaugural UFC Championship belt!
Pioneer Rosi Sexton earns an AOCA
Pioneer Rosi Sexton earns an AOCA. Rosi Sexton has inspired countless females throughout the globe, and still continues to do so. Not only due to her work ethic and character, but through the knowledge she hands down to the younger generation.
Cast of TUF 20 Pt.2
The Cast of TUF 20 Pt. 2. With less than two weeks to go until The Ultimate Fighter season 20 filming gets underway, we’re taking a look at the twenty-seven athletes vying for the 8 remaining cast positions, and the 2 alternate places.
Cast of TUF 20 Pt.1
Cast of TUF 20 Pt.1. With taping commencing on July 1st, we’re less than two weeks away from the start of TUF 20 filming! Eight athletes from Invicta Fighting Championships are already cast for the first all-female season of The Ultimate Fighter.
July Female Fight Fixtures and Results 2014
July Female Fight Fixtures and Results from around the world, collated by Awakening Fighters. Includes: Boxing, Muay Thai, MMA & K1.
Paige VanZant – I will be prepared for whoever they give me
Paige VanZant Interview. Like the rest of the fight community, Paige VanZant had been waiting excitedly and patiently for the TUF 20 filming to start. Recently the UFC made a shocking announcement that Paige would not in fact be entering the show.
Tecia Torres “I’m ready to take them all on”
Tecia Torres Interview. Hi Tecia, thank you so much for speaking with us. We’d like to get your thoughts on last year, which was an extremely successful year for you, and more importantly, find out how you’re doing in the run up to TUF!
Jo Calderwood “My goals are still the same”
Jo Calderwood Interview. Joanne Calderwood is undoubtedly one of the fan favourites among the new UFC Strawweight division. Not only is she incredibly humble and softly spoken, but she has some serious Celtic skills and flies the Scottish flag high.
Hatice Ozyurt talks MMA
Hatice Ozyurt talks MMA. Recently Muay Thai fighter Hatice Ozyurt (aka The Turkish Delight) posted a new promo video to her Facebook Athlete Page. We decided to take a look at it and discuss a few things.
Iman Barlow vs Maritzarda Hersisia
Iman Barlow vs Maritzarda Hersisia. We bring you the full Muay Thai world title fight between Iman Barlow and Maritzarda Hersisia – plus behind the scenes footage.
The 15 New Invicta Signees – Pt.4
Welcome to the fourth and final part of our WMMA dissection of the 15 new Invicta Fighting Championship’s signees. Today we’ll be discussing the Bantamweights and Featherweights (there’s actually only one female fighter in the later). If you would like to read about the other weight divisions then don’t forget to visit the other three articles in this series.
The 15 New Invicta Signees – Pt.3
This is the third part to our WMMA run down of Invicta Fighting Championship’s 15 new signees. Today we’ll be taking a look at the Atomweight and Flyweight divisions. For the benefit of those that have stumbled across this article, we decided to talk about the Strawweight signings yesterday – as this was the division that was hit hard by the UFC 20 announcment.
The 15 New Invicta Signees – Pt.2
Yesterday you might have seen our overall introduction to the fifteen new Invicta Fighting Championship signees. For the next three days we will be taking a look at each of these Women’s Mixed Martial Artists, and giving you our take on them. As we mentioned in the last article, we have decided to the split this into four articles because of the potential length of the subject.
The 15 New Invicta Signees – Pt.1
On Valentine’s Day last week, Invicta Fighting Championships were sharing the love within the Women’s Mixed Martial Arts community by announcing fifteen exciting new signings from around the globe! Female fighters from eight countries to be exact: United States, Brazil, New Zealand, Netherlands, Poland, Canada, Belgium and Mexico.
FusBoxe Baby Face
We decided to pay Maureen Riordon a visit whilst passing through Denver, Colorado last year. We caught up with her at FusBoxe MMA and Fitness, and pestered her to allow us to capture her training regime. She was being put through her paces by partner and coach Michael Sullivan. They were very welcoming and we’d recommend FusBoxe to anyone in the area wanting to keep fit.
Female Fighters Unite Outcome
During the last half of 2013, female fighters around the world united to help raise money to fight breast cancer. Awakening worked closely with MZ & Emmers to organize the global Female Fighters Unite campaign. We’re so pleased to now be able to announce the outcome.
WMMA 2013 Awards
We’d like to thank everyone who took part in the nomination and voting process for the first annual Awakening WMMA Awards. The response was incredible, many more people than we imagined got involved and we believe that all of the sharing that went on did wonders for spreading the word about WMMA. Congratulations to all of the winners, as nominated and voted by the community.
Aleksandra Albu, UFC Mystery Girl
Who is this mystery girl that the UFC have signed? We’ve found out for you. We thought it was worth doing some digging, and contacting a few of our sources to find out exactly who the enigmatic female fighter Aleksandra Albu is. We know that the UFC claim to not sign unproven fighters, and rightly so.
Name the Fighters Competition
We had been working so hard behind the scenes over the last eight months to bring you website 2.0, that we decided we needed to have a break from all the seriousness and have a little Christmas fun with you – hence this ‘Name the Fighters Competition.’ If you are reading this before the 1st of January then you’re not too late to enter, so keep reading!
Knapp talks Cyborg’s Lion Fight
Following Cristiane Justino’s impressive win at Lion Fight Promotions 11 Invicta FC President, Shannon Knapp talked about the lady known as “Cyborg”, combat sports crossover fights, and the growth of Muay Thai in America. “This (LFP 11) was more about Cris than any benefits for Invicta FC,”
Rousey vs Carmouche
Last night saw a pivotal moment in WMMA, as global eyes watched UFC 157 with bated breath to see how Dana White would showcase the organisations first ever women’s bout. Ronda Rousey vs Liz Carmouche was placed as the main event, and was for the Women’s Bantamweight World Champion title. In the co-main event spot was Lyota Machida vs Dan Henderson.