It only took one round for Cris ‘Cyborg’ Santos to defeat Gina Carano and claim the Strikeforce Women’s 145 pound belt last night. From the start of the fight Cyborg used her strength to bully Carano and dictate the pace. While Carano managed to return fire with her own strikes and even got mount at one point, it simply wasn’t enough. In the dying seconds of the round, Cyborg got top position on the ground and wailed away at Gina until the ref had to wave off the fight with 1 second remaining.
It was a controversial ending for sine who …read more

Saturday night is a historic night for mixed martial arts as Strikeforce puts on the first female superfight in the history of the sport. Women’s MMA has been around for a long long time, but this marks the first time that a fight featuring females will headline a major promotion’s event.
The fight in question is Gina Carano versus Cris ‘Cyborg’ Santos. Gina as a former muay thai fighter turned mixed martial artists who some of you might recognize from her time on the new American Gladiators show where she played ‘Crush’. Cris Cyborg is the most feared female in mixed …read more

While Gina Carano was in New York City preparing for a press conference to promote her upcoming fight against Cris ‘Cyborg’ Santos, her ex-boyfriend was in Las Vegas making all sorts of interesting comments about her.
Kit Cope is a kickboxer and mediocre MMA fighter who’s best known for an appearance on MTV’s True Life and a run in the WEC that ended with a positive test for steroids. Actually, that’s not really true. Kit is best known for being Gina Carano’s ex … they were actually engaged at one point.
Now don’t ask me why he did this, because I don’t …read more

The Ultimate Fighter 9 Finale wasn’t the only MMA event on over the weekend. Strikeforce, a California promotion that has recently grown to a national scale with Showtime and NBC TV deals, had an event on Friday night as well. In addition to some great fights, the promotion officially announced the first female superfight in the history of mixed martial arts: Gina Carano versus Cris Cyborg on August 15th.
Dubbed ‘Beauty and the Beast’ by some of the less politically correct press, the fight will be for the newly created Strikeforce 145 pound championship and is five 5-minute rounds. This is …read more

There is so much news going on this week in MMA and I’ve been kind of sick and backed up on it.

Jake Shields now considers himself a free agent as it’s been 30 days since the fall of EliteXC and they have breeched contract. Dana White said there was definitely an interest in Shields for the UFC.
Dana White may try out women in MMA at the WEC with Gina Carano. Dana White said at a UFC 94 Press meeting in Toronto: "Gina Carano is a star, and I think she’s talented," White said. "I think she has all the …read more

MMAJunkie.com reports that the auction for ProElite will happen in Los Angeles later this month and all "tangible and intangible assets". Unfortunately or maybe not, this includes contracts of the fighters currently signed to EliteXC.
The sale will include contracts with a number of EliteXC fighters, including Kevin "Kimbo Slice" Ferguson, Gina Carano, Jake Shields, Robbie Lawler, Frank Shamrock and many others.

I expect Kimbo to take a huuuuge pay cut. Maybe we’ll see him on season 10 of The Ultimate Fighter, but that’s highly unlikely. Dana white has expressed interest in Jake Shields and I wish WEC or UFC could …read more