The Independent Voice of Mixed Martial Arts
Now is as good a time as any to talk about Coach Edmond Tarverdyan I suppose. The Glendale Fighting Club boxing coach helped guide Ronda Rousey to six UFC world title defenses before getting derailed by former boxing champion Holly Holm at UFC 193 over the weekend. A terrible strategy in the first round that … Read more
Thirty-one-year-old Brazilian Bethe Correia has let it be known she was coming for Ronda Rousey since she beat Ronda’s Four Horsewomen teammate Jessamyn Duke in April of last year. Then she took out another of Rousey’s Horsewomen with a TKO win over Shayna Baszler a few months later. On August 1 Correia will get her … Read more
If you have to lose a bet, it may as well be because you didn’t actually think you’d be able to break your own world record of fastest finish in UFC championship fight history. That’s the case with UFC women’s bantamweight champ Ronda Rousey (11-0) who dispatched Alexis Davis (16-6) in just 16 seconds last … Read more
By: Joey Krebs GLENDALE, Calif. — The Four Horsewomen Clinic was a big hit this weekend at the Glendale Fighting Club where UFC women’s Bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey, along with Marina Shafir, Shayna Baszler and Jessamyn Duke, hosted a power punch clinic which benefitted the non-profit Didi Hirsch Foundation. Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services is … Read more
Marina Shafir just won her fifth MMA fight as an amateur. This past Sunday night Shafir submitted Nicole Upshaw at “University of MMA: Fight Night 5” at Club Nokia in Los Angeles. Shafir is the reigning Tuff-N-Uff featherweight champion, and like her best friend Ronda Rousey before her, has been submitting all her opponents in the first round — actually, most of them within the first minute. This last win took her 1:53, but who’s counting.