Strikeforce women’s featherweight champion Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos (9-1) just watched her husband Evangelista Santos defeat Marius Žaromskis last Wednesday at “Strikeforce: LA” and will fight herself next Saturday against Jan Finney.
In a recent interview with Tatame.com, the female champ talked about her husbands victory as well as her hopes for another knockout victory against Finney.
What […]
Strikeforce women’s featherweight champion Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos (9-1) just watched her husband Evangelista Santos defeat Marius Žaromskis last Wednesday at “Strikeforce: LA” and will fight herself next Saturday against Jan Finney.
In a recent interview with Tatame.com, the female champ talked about her husbands victory as well as her hopes for another knockout victory against Finney.
What did you think of your husband’s win on Strikeforce? Cyborg has been training a lot, had the opportunity to show his work here and thanks God everything went right… But we hadn’t time to celebrate, because I’m the next one to fight… Let’s celebrate later (laughs).
What are your expectations for this fight? I’m well trained, on the last phase of my preparation. I’ll stick to my game plan, always trying the knockout, but what I want to do it a good fight, the win is just a consequence. I’ll bring this belt home.
What do you know about Jan Finney, who will do her debut on this event? I watched her fights standing, but I’m ready to fight that way and if I have the opportunity to submit her on the ground, I will. I don’t have a plan, I have to feel how things are going during the fight.
Both women will co-headline the “Strikeforce and M-1 Global: Fedor vs. Werdum” event at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, Cali. on June 26.
With so many fights happening this past week, Strikeforce: LA, Bellator 22, TUF 11 Finale, and WEC 49, it’s easy to forget that there are some excellent promotions across the ocean in Japan.
The DREAM promotion updated it’s DREAM.15 card with a couple of bouts. The weigh-ins for World Victory Road’s latest Sengoku Raiden Championship […]
With so many fights happening this past week, Strikeforce: LA, Bellator 22, TUF 11 Finale, and WEC 49, it’s easy to forget that there are some excellent promotions across the ocean in Japan.
The DREAM promotion updated it’s DREAM.15 card with a couple of bouts. The weigh-ins for World Victory Road’s latest Sengoku Raiden Championship event, SVR 13, took place on Saturday in Tokyo, Japan. A women’s event completed itself on Saturday with Valkrye 6, culminating with a flyweight championship bout between Naoko Omuro vs. Yasuko Tamada.
DREAM.15 will host the promotions opening round of it’s four-man Grand Prix tournament to determine it’s first-ever light-heavyweight champ, will see K-1 kickboxer Melvin Manhoef (24-7-1) take on Tatsuya Mizuno (7-5). Also announced was a lightweight matchup between Gesias “JZ” Cavalcante (14-3-1) vs. Katsunori Kikuno (13-2-1).
DREAM.15 will take place on July 10 at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan. HDNet will carry the event for fans in North America. You can see the current DREAM.15 card near the bottom of the post.
World Victory Roads Sunday event, Sengoku Raiden Championship 13, will see a featherweight title fight and the opening round of it’s welterweight grand prix tournament. The weigh-ins took place on Saturday at East 21 Hotel in Toyocho, Tokyo. The actual event will take place in Tokyo’s Ryogoku Kokugikan, also known as Sumo Hall, and will be shown on HDNet in North America on June 25.
Defending his Sengoku featherweight title will be Masanori Kanehara (65.7kg) who takes on Marlon Sandro (65.7kg). The full weigh-in results and event match ups can be found near the bottom of the page.
The womens event, Valkyrie 6, took place on June 19 at the Differ Ariake in Tokyo, Japan and featured five female bouts. Yasuko Tamada picked up her thenth victory as well as the Valkrye flyweight title after earning a unanimous decision over Naoko Omuro.
Keeping her record unbeaten at 7-0, was Rin Nakai who defeated Megumi Yabushita, who holds 36 professional fights under her belt, via unanimous decision. With so few female fighters in the sport of MMA, the 135 pound Nakai could find herself as a potential opponent of Strikeforce bantamweight Strikeforce champ Sarah Kaufman.
The full results from the Valkyrie 6 event can be found at the end of the post.
Props to MMAFighting.com for providing updates on the Japanese events.
DREAM.15
Lightweight title bout: Shinya Aoki vs. Tatsuya Kawajiri
Lightweight bout: Gesias “JZ” Cavalcante vs. Katsunori Kikuno
Light-heavyweight tournament:
– Melvin Manhoef vs. Tatsuya Mizuno
– Gegard Mousasi
Sengoku Raiden Championship 13
SRC featherweight title fight: Masanori Kanehara (65.7 kg) vs. Marlon Sandro (65.7 kg)
Light-heavyweight bout: Hiroshi Izumi (92.5 kg) vs. Chang Seob Lee (92.2 kg)
Welterweight: Yasubey Enomoto (76.8 kg) vs. Sanae Kikuta (77.1 kg)
Lightweight: Maximo Blanco (70.2 kg) vs. Rodrigo Damm (70.2 kg)
SRC welterweight GP opening round:
– Omar de la Cruz (76.9 kg) vs. Keita “K-Taro” Nakamura (76.7 kg)
– Jae Sun Lee (77.1 kg) vs. Takuya Wada (77 kg)
Featherweight: Shigeki Osawa (65.7 kg) vs. Katsuya Toida (65.8 kg)
Featherweight: Doo Ho Choi (65.8 kg) vs. Ikuo Usuda (65.7 kg)
Light-heavyweight: Hidetada Irie (92.7 kg) vs. Ryo Kawamura (92.3 kg)
Valkyrie 6
Valkyrie flyweight title bout: Yasuko Tamada def. Naoko Omuro via unanimous decision
Rin Nakai def. Megumi Yabushita via unanimous decision
Ayame Miura def. Mutsumi Kasai via unanimous decision
Naho “Sugi Rock” Sugiyama def. Megumi Morioka via TKO (referee stoppage) – R2, 2:20
“Butterfly Knife” Yuka def. Kimie “Sakura” Okada via unanimous decision
Submission specialist, Lynn “Lights Out” Alvarez (5-0) was added to the growing number of female fighters participating in Bellator Fighting Championship’s upcoming Season 3 Women’s Tournament.
“I’m so excited to be a part of the tournament because Bellator is signing all the best female fighters in the world and that’s who I want to compete against,” […]
Submission specialist, Lynn “Lights Out” Alvarez (5-0) was added to the growing number of female fighters participating in Bellator Fighting Championship’s upcoming Season 3 Women’s Tournament.
“I’m so excited to be a part of the tournament because Bellator is signing all the best female fighters in the world and that’s who I want to compete against,” Alvarez said. “My goal is to put on some exciting fights and win the tournament to prove that I’m the best in the world.”
The 25 year old Alvarez is the sixth name added to the tournament which include other notable female fighters such as undefeated Japanese sensation Megumi Fujii, British striker Rosi Sexton, Lisa Ward, Jessica Pene, and Angela Magana.
Alvarez has won four of her five victories by submission, winning all but one of her fights in the first round. Her last appearance was against Shoni Esquiro at a Freestyle Cage Fighting event in July of last year.
You can find more updates on Bellator’s Season 3 tournament at Bellator.com.
On Tuesday, Bellator Fighting Championship announced the addition of female 115 pound fighter Angela Magana (9-4) to their upcoming Bellator Season 3 Women’s Tournament which kicks off in August.
“We are very pleased to add Angela Magana to the compelling list of 115 pound women competing in our Season 3 tournament. There is not an […]
On Tuesday, Bellator Fighting Championship announced the addition of female 115 pound fighter Angela Magana (9-4) to their upcoming Bellator Season 3 Women’s Tournament which kicks off in August.
“We are very pleased to add Angela Magana to the compelling list of 115 pound women competing in our Season 3 tournament. There is not an easy fight anywhere in this tournament and Angela should present a very tough fight for everyone she faces in this tournament,” said Bellator founder and CEO Bjorn Rebney.
The fighter currently trains at the Team Four Corners gym in Farmington, N.M.
Joining her for the Season 3 tournament will be the undefeated Japanese mma star Megumi Fujii, British fighter Rosi Sexton (currently ranked No. 1 in the 125 lbs. female weight-class), 11-5 Lisa Ward and 7-0 Jessica Pene.
MMAPrime.tv reporter Aaron Tru squares off against Womens Strikeforce champion Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos in a “loser drinks their own urine” bout, similar to a loser leaves town match. Tru joined “Cyborg” at MMA Conditioning in a previous video to join her in a Strength & Conditioning workout that proved way too much for the […]
MMAPrime.tv reporter Aaron Tru squares off against Womens Strikeforce champion Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos in a “loser drinks their own urine” bout, similar to a loser leaves town match. Tru joined “Cyborg” at MMA Conditioning in a previous video to join her in a Strength & Conditioning workout that proved way too much for the reporter.
This time, Tru steps into the ring with Santos after making a side wager with her. If he can last two minutes in the ring then she has to drink her own urine, but if she forces him to quite before those two minutes are up then he has to drink his own. Find out who pulls a Machida at the end of the video.
Strikeforce women’s featherweight champion Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos (9-1) just watched her husband Evangelista Santos defeat Marius Žaromskis last Wednesday at “Strikeforce: LA” and will fight herself next Saturday against Jan Finney.
