Official Women's Division Discussion #25

If Invicta is looking for a challenger to Yana Kunitskaya
at 135 lbs why not Yaya Rincon since she is undefeated
in her 2 fights she has had thus far.
 
Sucky news about Rocky's injury. I hope she recovers quickly.

I read Gadelha is looking to take a break from MMA. No fights until after Feb. next year.

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On Brace. Caitlin McEwen appears to have been replaced by Rhiannon Thompson. I plan on looking into that before long.

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Unfortunate to read about Alesha Zappitella and Heqin Lin. I must have missed that this morning or the news hadn't broke at the time I was looking into it. I would like to see Zappitella fighting against opponents closer to her in size.

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I'll see about adding a few other fights that I don't recall seeing. It might take a little while though. (And I might have not noticed someone including the ones I am listing here. I am checking but it is easy to miss something.)

In Spoilers

10-27 135 Mayra Cantuaria vs. Lara Fritzen at Shooto Brasil 77

10-28 105 Yoon Ha Hong vs. Seul Gi Jeon at ROAD FC 043/Young Guns 37 (Replaces Yu Ri Shim.)

10-29 115 Izumi Noguchi vs. Pan Hui at Grandslam 6

11-4 130 Tracy Cortez vs. Roxy Ceasear at WFF MMA 36

11-4 (Checking Weight) Zlata Sheftor vs. Yulia Kutsenko at Fight Night Global 78

11-4 GKO 11
(Additionally)
105 Mellissa Wang vs. TBD

11-10 115 Micol DiSegni vs. Morgan Solis at LFA 27

11-11 Combate America: Copa Combate
(Additionally)
105 Sheila Padilla vs. Lisbeth Lopez Silva

11-12 (Checking Weight) Pamela Mara vs. TBD (Mariana Nunes?) at WGP 42

11-18 125 Jennifer Gonzalez vs. Silvana Gomez Juarez at Arena Tour 10

11-18 (Checking Weight) Bianca Sattelmayer vs. TBD at Pinja Fight 1

11-22 115 Melissa Pizarro vs. Alejandra Pérez at Fusion FC 30

11-25 115 Lanchana Green vs. TBD at Made4TheCage (I thought I saw someone post about this already. Previous thread perhaps.)

11-25 Batalha MMA 10
(Additionally)
115 Vanessa 'Guerreiro' vs. Thuany Valentim

12-1 (Checking Weight) Jasmine Crawford vs. TBD at American Kombat Alliance

12-1 Bellator MMA 189
(I see the Amber fight noted by someone.)

12-3 DEEP Jewels 18
125 Kana Watanabe vs. Hikari Sato
105 Hikaru Aono vs. Anna Kiriyama
125 Yukari Nabe vs. Yurika Nakakura
105 Yuko Kiryu vs. Kyu Kitano
105 Mizuki Furuse vs. Mika Arai
105 Tomomi Souda vs. Madoka Ishibashi
115 Sayuri Yamaguchi vs. Mao Chino
125 Malinowska Kasia vs. Ryoko Miyata

12-9 135 Mitzi Merry vs. TBD (Allison Marie Schmindt?) at Primus FC

12-9 145 Title Jozette Cotton vs. TBD at DCS: Seasons Beatings

12-9 (Checking Weight - Likely 115) Laura Balin vs TBD (Xiomara Piriz?) at Collision Fight Ultimate 8

12-9 115 Karla Hernández vs. TBD (Fatima Mallett?) at X (Fury FC 20?)

12-16 125 Mandy Böhm vs. Petra Castkova at GMC 13

12-16 (Checking Weight - Likely 115) Crystal Demopoulos vs. TBD at X
 
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Rocky :( That sucks. I kinda felt like Nunes was gonna be on 219, I guess they're gonna wait on Rocky to heal up? Either that or they're giving this fight to someone else and quite frankly, there isn't anyone in the division currently that could make a legitimate claim to a title shot aside Pennington.

It's going to be Holly, surely? She's popular enough that there won't be too many grumbles.

I'd rather see that than a fight with Cyborg in any case.
 
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Unfortunately the fight between Alesha Zappitella and Heqin Lin has been cancelled. Not sure the reasoning but Lin pulled out. Alesha is trying to get rebooked ASAP. I wish Invicta would give her a shot because I think she could be a top Atomweight very soon. I think she has to prove herself after failing her drug test in her last fight.
I had heard that Lin pulled out due to injury, as did Weili Zhang. Most disappointing.
 
Rocky :( That sucks. I kinda felt like Nunes was gonna be on 219, I guess they're gonna wait on Rocky to heal up? Either that or they're giving this fight to someone else and quite frankly, there isn't anyone in the division currently that could make a legitimate claim to a title shot aside Pennington.
Yeah, the UFC must be grasping for straws about now. You've got nearly all of your top 10 out injured, dropping to 125, on maternity leave or essentially retired. Maybe Holm will opt to fight Nunes rather than Cyborg. The only other options appear to be Evinger or Viera. The way things look, Shevchenko may get a chance at a rematch earlier than she figured.
 
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About damn time Granados vs. Batara happens. Only been a year since Paulina's last fight. :\


Didn't see it in the last thread, ONE "Atomweight" champion Angela Lee got engaged to fellow ONE competitor, Bruno Pucci.
 
Yeah, the UFC must be grasping for straws about now. You've got nearly all of your top 10 out injured, dropping to 125, on maternity leave or essentially retired. Maybe Holm will opt to fight Nunes rather than Cyborg. The only other options appear to be Evinger or Viera. The way things look, Shevchenko may get a chance at a rematch earlier than she figured.
Hopefully not! I want to see Cyborg-Holm before it's completely too late for that fight.

Unfortunately right now I don't really have a good challenger in mind for Amanda either. But considering her last defense isn't that far back, I don't think it's so urgent tbh.
(Not really interested in Nunes vs Shevchenko III btw. I never was much of a Valentina fan to begin with and after all her post fight complaining even less so now. And it's not like fight I & II were super exciting...)
 
Hopefully not! I want to see Cyborg-Holm before it's completely too late for that fight.

Unfortunately right now I don't really have a good challenger in mind for Amanda either. But considering her last defense isn't that far back, I don't think it's so urgent tbh.
(Not really interested in Nunes vs Shevchenko III btw. I never was much of a Valentina fan to begin with and after all her post fight complaining even less so now. And it's not like fight I & II were super exciting...)

At this point I just want Cyborg and that joke of a division to be boycotted by lower weightclass fighters until they either bring in actual 145ers or shut it down
 
If Invicta is looking for a challenger to Yana Kunitskaya
at 135 lbs why not Yaya Rincon since she is undefeated
in her 2 fights she has had thus far.
Yaya is a great prospect, but she won't be ready for Yana, or a title yet. Kelly Faszholz and Julia Avila are probably both 2 wins from a title fight, where as I would say that Yaya needs 4ish. Raquel & Pannie Kianzad both need a reset.

I'd personally give the fight to Sarah Kaufman, as she is the best 135er outside of the UFC on paper. If not Kaufman, Katharina Lehner is the next best choice.

At this point I just want Cyborg and that joke of a division to be boycotted by lower weightclass fighters until they either bring in actual 145ers or shut it down
I think that the UFC will use Nunes as leverage against Cyborg, to make her agree to Holm. Personally I'd rather see Holm fight Nunes because I hate Cyborg.

If Holm/Cyborg goes through, the UFC might give GDR a shot, it's unlikely she'll win, so why not?
 
Yaya is a great prospect, but she won't be ready for Yana, or a title yet. Kelly Faszholz and Julia Avila are probably both 2 wins from a title fight, where as I would say that Yaya needs 4ish. Raquel & Pannie Kianzad both need a reset.

I'd personally give the fight to Sarah Kaufman, as she is the best 135er outside of the UFC on paper. If not Kaufman, Katharina Lehner is the next best choice.


I think that the UFC will use Nunes as leverage against Cyborg, to make her agree to Holm. Personally I'd rather see Holm fight Nunes because I hate Cyborg.

If Holm/Cyborg goes through, the UFC might give GDR a shot, it's unlikely she'll win, so why not?
I'd lol if GDR won and then held out for a super fight vs cyborg
 
At this point I just want Cyborg and that joke of a division to be boycotted by lower weightclass fighters until they either bring in actual 145ers or shut it down

Could not possibly agree more. I also want her "fans" to go away. Most sports fans are not the brightest, and MMA fans often truly leave something to be desired, but holy shit Cyborg fans are the worst. They make your average tweaker that just got blasted with thorazine look like Stephen fucking Hawking.
 
They can just hold off until Pennington heals up. I have no interest in seeing Holly fight for the belt unless she actually picks up a credible win, finishing Correia of all people should not warrant a title shot, yes I know Holm has that "star power" that they can use to build this fight but I'm not here for it anyway. I'm not interested in a Shevchenko trilogy or GdR either.

Now that I think about it, I think they booked McMann vs. Vieira on purpose so that if Rocky isn't ready in time, they could give the fight to Sara but obviously that got derailed when Ketlen won (I always love it when things don't go the way expected lmao). The only people coming off a good enough win to make a claim for a title shot is Pennington who beat Tate last year and Vieira who took out McMann on the same card Nunes beat Shevchenko.

They should just wait till Rocky gets back. Nunes defended not too long ago so need to hurry her back in.
 
Personally I'd like to see Holly v Cyborg go ahead. Firstly because I think Holm can win and secondly to see the reaction of her supporters if that happened.

I think DeRandamie has some of the best striking in the division and might beat Nunes this time, probably a good reason for the UFC not to give her the fight. I don't see why Nunes should have to wait though, it could be months, and these people fight for money. I'd book Leslie Smith, it would be a crowd pleaser, but it won't happen of course.
 
I can't link to the article, due to the site being previously banned on here by mods, but Paulina Granados vs Kyra Batara for the inaugural Combate Americas atomweight championship is now official. Goes down at Combate Americas 19 on Dec 1.
 
What about Vieira X Cat or L. Smith for next contender? Could work. GDR should fight Reneau.
 
About damn time Granados vs. Batara happens. Only been a year since Paulina's last fight. :\


Didn't see it in the last thread, ONE "Atomweight" champion Angela Lee got engaged to fellow ONE competitor, Bruno Pucci.

Don't really give a rip as to who she's engaged to, but I also didn't see any mention of Angela's upcoming rematch with Mei Yamaguchi on Novemeber 24. Also on that card will be May OOi vs. Vy Srey Khouch and Tiffany Teo vs. Pooja Tomar.
 
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