Women’s MMA
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Invicta FC 23: Porto vs Niedźwiedź fight card preview
Invicta FC marches on with the reliable formula of setting an event for every other month, and it’s yet another well-matched card from top to bottom. Despite not having a title fight in the main event, every fight has either divisional relevance or the possibility for heavy action – or…
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Cris Cyborg vacates Invicta belt, eyes De Randamie UFC title fight
Former Strikeforce champion Cristiane Justino is now also a former Invicta champion. After defeating Marloes Coenen at Invicta FC 6, Cris Cyborg became the featherweight champion for the organization in 2013 and hasn’t looked back since. Since joining the UFC roster last year, some questions remained regarding a possible return…
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Invicta FC 22 – Evinger vs Kunitskaya 2 preview
This Saturday, Invicta FC has another must-watch event with what perhaps their most well-matched card in the organization’s existence. Perhaps that sounds like hyperbole, but the stylistic matchups should ensure that there are plenty of action bouts, especially in the more divisionally consequential fights near the top of the card.…
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Video: UFC champ Amanda Nunes crashes ‘Desus & Mero’
Amanda Nunes is making the media rounds and popping up in unexpected places. The UFC women’s bantamweight champion was in New York and made a surprise appearance on the hit late night show Desus and Mero, impressing the hosts and showing off a bit of technique in the process. As…
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Invicta FC 21: Anderson vs Tweet preview
Invicta FC returns this weekend with another great offering. This event features a few newcomers, various returning fighters and compelling matchups that will help sort out the standings within each division. At the top, we have rising star Megan Anderson taking on former title contender Charmaine Tweet in an interim…
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Invicta FC 20: Evinger vs Kunitskaya preview and weigh-in video
This Friday, Invicta returns to Kansas City’s Scottish Rite Temple for Invicta FC 20, headlined by controversial champion Tonya Evinger (18-5) taking on Russian challenger Yana Kunitskaya (9-2). This event will have two title fights on the line, with Evinger defending her bantamweight title in the main event. The outspoken…
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Women’s MMA recap for September 2016: Cyborg shines for the UFC
September didn’t have many women’s fights in the more prominent organizations. But, there was a lot of movement within divisions and a lot of solid action for the amount of offerings available. We got some title fights outside of the UFC, and another undeniably exciting event from top to bottom…
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Boxing queen Cecilia Braekhus wants a fight with Cris Cyborg in 2017
Cecilia Brakhus may be at the top of the mountain in the boxing world, but she’s still hungry for more and wants a new kind of challenge. After defeating fellow elite boxer Anne Sophie Mathis on Braekhus’ home soil in Norway over the weekend, she intends to take on a…
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MMA fighter accused of domestic violence, attacking fellow fighter ex-fiancée
Australian Jessica-Rose Clark, who has had some ups and downs in her MMA career, has decided to make public a harrowing ordeal she has been going through with her former significant other. Clark explained that she was in a relationship with fellow Aussie MMA fighter Julian Wallace and referenced an…
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Invicta FC 19: Maia vs Modafferi preview
Invicta’s steady progression and rate of events has yielded pretty big dividends lately. Using the same basic formula for their card structure – in which fighters making their professional debuts take on fighters with shallow records to start the card off, while the deeper the card gets, the deeper the…