Welcome to the 5th annual Awakening Women’s MMA Awards. Here are your results for the year of 2017!
Let us not forget Jessica Lindsay
Let us not forget Jessica Lindsay. It’s with a heavy heart I write this small article. Jessica Lindsay, an eighteen year old from Perth, Australia, has passed away due to extreme dehydration from weight cutting.
Career ending tumour for Female Boxing Pioneer Kirsty Lupeamanu
A sad day in New Zealand Boxing as “The Samoan Sniper” Kirsty Lupeamanu announces her retirement due to a Pituitary Gland Tumour.
Awakening Womens MMA Awards 2016 Results
Here are your results! View the Awakening MMA Awards 2016 results.
Awakening Female Muay Thai Awards 2016 Results
Awakening Female Muay Thai Awards 2016 results. We want to thank all of those that nominated and voted in this years awards. Here are your results! View the Awakening Women’s MMA Awards 2016 results. Female Fighter of the Year. Antonina Shevchenko.
Nominations are now open
The nomination stage of the Awakening Awards has begun and you are invited to submit your nominations!
The Awakening Awards 2016 Are Coming!
It’s that time of year again folks. The fourth annual Awakening Female Fighter Awards are coming!
Monthly Most Viewed June 2016
Here is a look at the Monthly Most Viewed June 2016. June’s top 20 Awakening profiles list sees female fighters from from fourteen different countries.
Monthly Most Viewed May 2016
Here is a look at the Monthly Most Viewed May 2016. May’s top 20 awakening profiles list sees female fighters from from ten different countries.
Monthly Most Viewed April 2016
Here is a look at the Monthly Most Viewed April 2016. There are a couple of surprising entries however the majority of athletes that appear her can be traced back to the monthly goings on in the fight world. April’s top 20 sees female fighters from from eight different countries.
Monthly Most Viewed March 2016
The Monthly Most Viewed listing is back after over 14 months since the last post. Here we have a look at the top twenty most viewed female fighter profiles in the Awakening fighter database during March. March’s top 20 sees female fighters from from seven different countries.
Kerry Hughes interview, ahead of her March 12th world title fight against Marie Lang
Kerry Hughes, aka “Rocksteady” is British fighter who fights out of BKK Fighters in Colchester. She’s had a total of 9 fights to date in MMA, K1 and Muay Thai. We’ve met her a few times and one thing that can be said about Kerry, something that we found apparent, is that she’s hungry to fight and push forward to new tougher challenges. We grabbed some time with her to ask about her upcoming title fight on March 12th, and her previous busy months.
What are Tate’s chances against Holm?
With UFC 196 just around the corner there’s a real buzz in the air, as we’re all getting set to watch Holly Holm make her first defence of the UFC World Bantamweight title against Miesha Tate. There’s speculation on social media amongst fans as to how it will go down, “What are Tate’s chances?”.
A catch up with Jorina Baars
We decided to have a catch up with Jorina Baars, just because it was about time! This lady really doesn’t need an intro, we all know who she is right!?
Amber Brown Interview, Fan Favourite Atomweight of the Year
Amber Brown is an MMA fighter from New Mexico, USA. Her current record is 6-1-0 and she’s been on a winning streak since 2013. She’s a lady that really needs no introduction because you the community voted her the ‘Fan Favourite Atomweight of the Year’ in the Awakening WMMA Awards! We caught up with Amber to find out her thoughts on your vote and took the opportunity to ask her a few more questions.
Yolanda Schmidt Interview, Muay Thai Newcomer of the Year 2015
Yolanda Schmidt is a professional Muay Thai fighter from South Africa, she now lives in Australia where she fights out of PTJ Muay Thai Gym. Out of her 18 fights she has only been defeated twice, once as an amateur and once as a pro. Her fights are always exciting to watch, and she’s very active on social media where you will catch her, so we urge you to go like her various pages
Macy Chiasson Interview, Amateur Fighter of the Year 2015
Macy Chiasson interview, female MMA fighter from Louisiana, USA and winner of the Awakening 2015 Amateur Fighter of the Year
Sylvie von Duuglas-Ittu interview
Sylvie von Duuglas-Ittu was your winner of the Fighter of the Year Award in the 2015 Awakening Female Muay Thai Awards. We arranged a skype interview with her but unfortunately failed on a few technical issues. Thankfully Sylvie captured her video and caught the audio also. The video is above. You can also see this same interview on Sylvie’s website where she provides a few extra notes.
Awakening Awards 2015
Why a community based awards? Why not? How often have you looked at the nominees in an awards ceremony and thought someone vital/deserving was missing? Yes, we’ve all done it. These community awards give you the opportunity to have your say
An interview with pioneer Michele Aboro – Part Four
In Part Three of this Michele Aboro interview we found out about the Aboro Academy and commendable Aboro Foundation. In this fourth and final part we ask Michele about her health, and we also get her thoughts on what needs to happen in the industry to further growth the female side of combat sports.
An interview with pioneer Michele Aboro – Part Three
In Part Two of this Michele Aboro interview we found out about the difficult circumstances surrounding retirement. In this third part we ask Michele about her transition into coaching, the Aboro Academy and the commendable Aboro Foundation.
An interview with pioneer Michele Aboro – Part Two
In Part One of this Michele Aboro interview we introduced the living legend and were told about some of the challenges of training and competing as a female fighter in the 80’s and 90’s. In this second part we hear about the controversial retirement and what it takes to stand your ground in the face of prejudice.