On Saturday, May 7, 2016, Invicta FC held their Invicta FC 17 event, which featured Tonya Evinger vs. Colleen Schneider for the Invicta FC Bantamweight Championship.
Below are quick-match results from the event, which emanated from Costa Mesa, Calif…
On Saturday, May 7, 2016, Invicta FC held their Invicta FC 17 event, which featured Tonya Evinger vs. Colleen Schneider for the Invicta FC Bantamweight Championship.
Below are quick-match results from the event, which emanated from Costa Mesa, California:
Invicta FC 17 Results
– Tonya Evinger def. Colleen Schneider via unanimous decision (49-45, 50-44 x2)
– Angela Hill def. Livia Renata Souza via split decision (48-47, 47-48, 48-47)
– Charmaine Tweet def. Latoya Walker via first-round TKO (3:41)
– Kaline Medeiros def. Aline Serio via second-round TKO (4:04)
– Megan Anderson def. Amanda Bell via first-round TKO (4:59)
– Christine Stanley def. Shannon Sinn via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 29-28)
– Rachael Ostovich def. Ariel Beck via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28)
– Laura Howarth def. Alexa Conners via split decision (29-28, 28-29,29-28)
On Friday, Invicta FC held the official weigh-ins for their Invicta FC 17 event scheduled for Saturday evening.
Headlined by Tonya Evinger vs. Colleen Schneider for the Invicta FC Bantamweight Championship, Invicta FC…
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On Friday, Invicta FC held the official weigh-ins for their Invicta FC 17 event scheduled for Saturday evening.
Headlined by Tonya Evinger vs. Colleen Schneider for the Invicta FC Bantamweight Championship, Invicta FC 17 is scheduled to take place at The OC Fair And Event Center in Costa Mesa, California.
Below are the results from the official Invicta FC 17 weigh-ins. You can watch a complete video archive of the weigh-ins above.
Main card (PPV at 9 p.m. ET)
– Tonya Evinger (134.7) vs. Colleen Schneider (134.4)
– Livia Renata Souza (114.1) vs. Angela Hill (114.1)
– Kaline Medeiros (115.3) vs. Aline Serio (114.4)
– Latoya Walker (144.4) vs. Charmaine Tweet (145.2)
– Amanda Bell (125.7) vs. Megan Anderson (125.1)
– Christine Stanley (125.8) vs. Shannon Sinn (124.3)
– Rachael Ostovich (125.4) vs. Ariel Beck (125.2)
– Laura Howarth (134.4) vs. Alexa Conners (135.5)
Make sure to check back here at MMANews.com later this evening for Invicta FC 17 results.
Top Invicta FC Flyweight contender Andrea Lee tested positive for a banned diuretic and has been temporarily suspended by the Nevada Athletic Commission (NAC).
Lee tested positive for the substance canrenone and/or spironolactone for her Invicta FC …
Top Invicta FC Flyweight contender Andrea Lee tested positive for a banned diuretic and has been temporarily suspended by the Nevada Athletic Commission (NAC).
Lee tested positive for the substance canrenone and/or spironolactone for her Invicta FC 16 fight on March 11th in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Andrea Lee was the first to break the news, as she wrote the following about the positive test, as well as her claim that she didn’t knowingly take any banned substances:
Apparently UFC didn’t have the easiest time finding an opponent to fight Cristiane “Cyborg” Justino in her Octagon debut at UFC 198 in Curitiba, Brazil in May.
UFC’s General Manager in Brazil, Giovanni Decker, spoke with MMAFighting.com this week and spoke about the process of finding someone to fight the reigning Invicta FC Featherweight Champion.
“We didn’t think it would be impossible (to have Cyborg at UFC 198) because we knew someone would accept the fight,” Decker said during a media scrum in Brazil. “I won’t mention names because I protect the fighters, but many athletes declined. Many names, really. You can say tens of fighters. But we were positive that someone would say yes.”
Headlined by Fabricio Werdum vs. Stipe Miocic for the UFC Heavyweight Title and featuring Vitor Belfort vs. Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza, Anderson Silva vs. Urijah Hall and Cris Cyborg vs. Leslie Smith, UFC 198 takes place on May 14, 2016 from Curitiba, Brazil.
Apparently UFC didn’t have the easiest time finding an opponent to fight Cristiane “Cyborg” Justino in her Octagon debut at UFC 198 in Curitiba, Brazil in May.
UFC’s General Manager in Brazil, Giovanni Decker, spoke with MMAFighting.com this week and spoke about the process of finding someone to fight the reigning Invicta FC Featherweight Champion.
“We didn’t think it would be impossible (to have Cyborg at UFC 198) because we knew someone would accept the fight,” Decker said during a media scrum in Brazil. “I won’t mention names because I protect the fighters, but many athletes declined. Many names, really. You can say tens of fighters. But we were positive that someone would say yes.”
Headlined by Fabricio Werdum vs. Stipe Miocic for the UFC Heavyweight Title and featuring Vitor Belfort vs. Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza, Anderson Silva vs. Urijah Hall and Cris Cyborg vs. Leslie Smith, UFC 198 takes place on May 14, 2016 from Curitiba, Brazil.
Invicta FC president Shannon Knapp isn’t closing the door on Cris “Cyborg” Justino competing again for her all-female promotion.
While it was announced on Monday that Justino (15-1) will make her Octagon debut at UFC 198 vs. Leslie Smith, Knapp told…
Invicta FC president Shannon Knapp isn’t closing the door on Cris “Cyborg” Justino competing again for her all-female promotion.
While it was announced on Monday that Justino (15-1) will make her Octagon debut at UFC 198 vs. Leslie Smith, Knapp told MMAFighting.com that she is not considering vacating her featherweight title at the moment.
Justino won the title in 2013 with a fourth round TKO vs. Marloes Coenen and has successfully defended it three times since. All three bout have ended inside of the first round.
“Anything is always up to (the UFC and Justino), so it could be whatever,” Knapp said. “I think this is probably a situation, too, where they’re trying it out. Who knows? I am not quite sure what the long-term plan is or if anybody does at this point.
“Cris has expressed interest in coming back and defending her belt. At this point, it is not vacated.”
Justino and Smith will be competing at 140 pounds in May. Zuffa, which owns and operates the UFC, added Invicta FC to Fight Pass last year.
After weeks of speculation that Invicta FC featherweight champion Cristiane ‘Cyborg’ Justino would make her long-awaited Octagon debut at May 14’s UFC 198 from Curitiba in her home country of Brazil, the news has finally been made official. The UFC just announced on their website that ‘Cyborg’ will take on women’s bantamweight Leslie Smith, who
After weeks of speculation that Invicta FC featherweight champion Cristiane ‘Cyborg’ Justino would make her long-awaited Octagon debut at May 14’s UFC 198 from Curitiba in her home country of Brazil, the news has finally been made official.
The UFC just announced on their website that ‘Cyborg’ will take on women’s bantamweight Leslie Smith, who recently beat Rin Nakai via controversial decision at UFC Fight Night 85 on March 19, in a 140-pound women’s catchweight bout.
The dominant ‘Cyborg’ has gone undefeated since her only MMA loss in the first bout of career back in 2005, with the only major blemish on her record in that time a no contest for her prior TKO win over Hiroko Yamanaka in Strikeforce after Justino tested positive for steroids.
Justino rebounded and won five straight bouts by knockout in Invicta, adding the Invicta FC featherweight title to her Strikeforce championship by defeating Marloes Coenen in 2013. Cyborg most recently defended the belt against Daria Ibragimova with a vicious knockout at Invicta FC 15.
She’ll look to make a splash in her home country when she takes on bantamweight Smith, a fellow Invicta veteran who has a much less glaring overall MMA record of 8-6. Prior to her win over Nakai, Smith had been out of action for over 16 months since Jessica Eye grotesquely exploded her cauliflower ear to win by TKO at UFC 180 in 2014.
Smith is no doubt a tough competitor who never gives up, but she also fought at 125 pounds in Invicta, losing to flyweight champion Barb Honchak in her last fight with the promotion. All told, she’s lost three of her last five fights and will be discussed as the latest undersized and over-matched combatant to step into a cage with ‘Cyborg.’
Cyborg vs. Smith will join an already packed main card in Brazil that includes Fabricio Werdum vs. Stipe Miocic for the heavyweight championship, Ronaldo ‘Jacare’ Souza vs. Vitor Belfort, and Anderson Silva vs. Uriah Hall.
With the addition of arguably the most lethal female fighter on the planet, UFC 198 is definitely in the running for the most packed pay-per-view (PPV) of the year thus far.
Are you excited to watch her debut, even if many will be calling it a glorified squash match?
