If you are a fan of Mixed Martial Arts or UFC, you’ve likely heard the news that the currently-broadcasting season of The Ultimate Fighter is the first to allow women. It also has female coaches between first ever UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion, Ronda Rousey, and Miesha Tate. The coaches have a rivalry built from a professional match where Ms. Rousey kept talking trash about how she was going to destroy Ms. Tate before the fight (Spoiler alert: she did, by 1st round armbar). There are several talented women on the teams. Including one Jessamyn “The Gun” Duke.
After watching a couple of Ms. Duke’s first professional MMA fights today, I can say that Women’s Mixed Martial Arts is definitely more exciting than I originally thought. I mean, just the prospect of two beautiful women inside a cage duking it out alone is compelling enough for me to throw aside men’s UFC. Jessamyn stands at a tall 5’11” and last weighed around 136 lbs. For a bantamweight, she is pretty freakin’ tall. Her two (professional) wins are due to her huge height and reach advantage alone.
Now, Jessamyn is not a veteran of the sport, but her matches are impressive nonetheless. If you want to talk of veterans, Shayna “The Queen of Spades” Baszler and Roxanne “The Happy Fighter” Modafferi are two of the women who pioneered in the sport. Roxanne does not look like she belongs in the sport, but she can surprise you — trust me, her skills in the cage will catch you off guard. Shayna has this pretty awesome thing where she sticks an Queen of Spades playing card in the top of her opponents’ shirt at the weigh-ins to mess with their heads. It might not always work, however. It doesn’t matter how experienced you are in MMA, one wrong move and you can lose the fight.
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Perhaps the best part about Women’s MMA is the passion they seem to show in the cage. It’s like they love the sport so much more than their male counterparts. Seriously, watch the number one contendership fight between “Alpha” Cat Zingano and Miesha Tate that happened to also be the fight to pick the coach opposite Rousey. If only Cat Zingano hadn’t blown her knee out after that fight. If you watch a WMMA fight and somehow aren’t compelled into the division, there must be something wrong with you.
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