Pa’aluhi

Young

Due to a visa issue, Cindy Dandois had to withdraw from her fight next week with Kaitlin Young at InvictaFC. The new broke Friday afternoon.

The promotion didn’t take long to find a replacement. InvictaFC 2 vet Raquel Pa’aluhi will head back to the cage to take on Young. The Hawaiian fighter snapped a three fight losing streak August of last year, with a TKO win over Priscilla White.Having faced some of the top talent in the division, No-gi world champion Pa’aluhi has grown as a fighter in the past year, and a win over a vet in Young would help her gain some more momentum.

Young (7-8) is looking to snap a three fight losing streak.

InvictaFC 9 will be live in Davenport Iowa November 1 and will stream for $10 on UFC Fight Pass.

Blencowe

Former WIBA welterweight boxing champ Arlene Blencowe (5-4 MMA) has announced Sunday night she is the newest edition to Bellator’s featherweight division.

The Australian standout has won three straight in MMA including a KO victory over InvictaFC fighter Faith van Duin. Blencowe will face Erin McGowan for the vacant WIBA lightweight boxing title November 21. She made her U.S. boxing debut in a split decision loss to Tori Nelson in September.

Her Bellator debut will happen early next year.

Gracia

The current ADCC World champion is ready to give MMA a try.

BJJ Black belt and multi-time world champion Gabi Garcia will face Megumi Yabushita at Real 1 MMA in Tokyo, Japan December 23. The DaMadeFerroMMA website broke the news Monday.

Garcia won the ADCC grappling title for the second time last year, and has been the World Absolute BJJ champion the past four years.

Yabushita (19-22) is looking to snap a six fight losing streak.

The fight will be an openweight bout. No word on if it will be streamed.

Two of Colorado’s up and coming amateur bantamweights are preparing to square off.

Fort Collins’s Courtney King (1-1) and Bloomfield’s Jennah Macallister (1-1) are set to for Rock’n’Rumble in Denver November 21. Both come from up and coming local gyms (Z’s Traing Gym and A-Art of War respectfully) and are looking to get a winning record.

“I started training a while ago when one of my friends pretty much dragged me into Z’s gym,” King remembers. “It didn’t take long for me to love the sport and after my coach encouraged me to compete that eventually lead to me fighting MMA and after I won my first fight I haven’t looked back since.”

“I started fighting because I found out that women were getting more and more into it and it struck my interest,” Macallister  explained “I just wanted to train though and not fight, but my trainer suggested I get into some tournaments and I did so.”

This isn’t the first time the two fought in a combat situation. Macallister’s first ever grappling tournament saw her lose to King.

It doesn’t detour Macallister, however.

“I don’t think there will be any advantage for either of us having had that grappling match,” Macallister tells us.  “It’s been a long time and we’ve both changed and are different fighters. Plus we start the tournament standing but bodies aren’t crashing into each other like they will in the cage.”

“I don’t have any thoughts on her. I know she had fought before and I respect her as a fighter,” King stated about Macallister. “I’m there to win. I’m ready to do whatever it takes to do it and more than ready to go through whatever she can throw at me to win.”

“Courtney is a great fighter from a really well established and respected gym,” Macallister added. “She is a great challenge and I already lost to her once in competition so there is a definite element of revenge for me when I look at this fight.”

“Expect a great fight, but maybe don’t expect all three rounds this time.”

The fight will be a part of the Rock’n’Rumble card, which will feature a concert by multi-platinum recording artists P.O.D.

The event will take place at the National Western Complex on November 21.

Go to www.RnRMMA.com for tickets.

InvictaFC has it’s first card outside of Kansas City as the promotion makes it’s debut in Davenport, Iowa for their ninth’s card.

Nine bouts are scheduled including the flyweight title match between champion Barb Honchak and challenger Takayo Hashi.

The stream will start at 5 p.m. est/2 p.m. est Friday afternoon. You can watch it below.

Current Card:

Main Event

• Barb Honchak (c) vs. Takayo Hashi – flyweight title

Co- Main Event

• Mizuki Inoue vs. Karolina Kowalkiewicz

Main Card

• Kaitlin Young vs. Raquel Pa’aluhi (145)
• Nicdali Rivera-Calanoc vs. Jodie Esquibel (105)
• Amber Brown vs. Liz McCarthy (105)
• Amanda Bell vs. Maria Hougaard-Djursaa (145)
• Shannon Sinn vs. Andrea K. Lee (125)
• Jenny Liou Shriver vs. Jamie Moyle (115)
• Kelly McGill vs. Maegan Goodwin (135)

Two fighters overcoming psychological hurdles battled in the sixth fight of the tournament.

Before Aisling Daly and Angela Magana squared off, we got a look into both of their stories. Magana told us her mother was a drug addict and having to put a needle in her arm because of the bad state she was in. Magana would also talk about losing her fiance after a tragic accident when she broke her back, and nearly dying. After all of this, she has come to peace with her past.

Daly had suffered from anxiety attacks and depression and had to take most of 2013 off. She battles it every day, but has been able to get back to fighting. Daly has been having problems with the dry Vegas air in terms of her training, but assures UFC President Dana White she is okay. However, she asks to see her teammates fight at UFC Dublin, and White obliges. Patrick Holohan gives Daly a shout out on the card.

The only other plot line that was the talked about was the continued alienation of Tecia Torres by Team Pettis. Torres’s first opponent Randa Markos was the first to put out an olive branch.

The fight itself was one of the best fights so far this season. Magana used her grappling to control Daly in round one, with Magana having a several rear naked choke attempts. Magana was working on Daly’s back as Daly was standing up with referee Chris Tognoni separating the fights for no reason at all.

Round two saw Daly get the upperhand, gaining the striking advantage and ultimately a takedown. Daly took the back and Magan fough back to half guard, abnd started to stand up. Daly would get the takedown again and take Magana’s back for the neck crank attempt before the round ended. This would tie up the score and a third period was warrented.

Magana seemed gassed, and Daly fough through a head kick to take Magana’s back as Daly got another takedown. Magana;s arm was trapped on her own throat, Daly landed ground and pound and the referee stops the contest at  2:26 of round 3.

Daly will face Jessica Penne in the semi-finals.

Next week, we will see Team Malendez’s Rose Namajunas take on Team Pettis’s Alex Chambers in the 7th fight.

Honchak and Hashi Courtesy InvictaFC

Weigh-ins on Halloween always look to be fun, and the InvictaFC fighters didn’t disappoint as they hit the dreaded scales dressed up to celebrate.

All but two came in on weight for InvictaFC’s ninth card. The Davenport, Iowa crowd was treated to several costumed figures, including InvictaFC Presdient Shannon Knapp as UFC Presdient Dana White and matchmaker Julie Kedzie as her UFC counterpart Joe Silva. Among the fighters, Kelly McGill graced the stage as Minnie Mouse and Nicdali Rivera-Colonac came in as Harley Quinn. (You can see pictures here on Invicta’s FB page).

If you want to see the video we have it posted here.

The main event will feature Barb Honchak defending her flyweight title for the second time against veteran Japanese fighter Takyo Hashi. Both made weigh under the 125 pound limit.

Both Maegan Goodwin (138.8 pounds) and Maria Hougaard Djursaa (148.6) were overweight and 25% of their purse will be given to their opponents.

Michael Schiavello and Julie Kedzie will be doing the commentary duties, while InvictaFC fighter Laura Sanko will be doing in-cage interviews.

The event will start at 8 p.m. central time and will stream on UFC Fight Pass. We will have a live stream of the post fight presser here on Wombat Sports shortly after the event.

Weigh-in results:

Main Event

• Barb Honchak (124.4; champion) vs Takayo Hashi (124.8) – flyweight title

Co-main event

• Mizuki Inoue (115.0) vs Karolina Kowalkiewicz (115.0)

Main Card

• Kaitlin Young (145.0) vs Raquel Pa’aluhi (145.0)
• Nicdali Rivera-Calanoc (105.2) vs Jodie Esquibel (105.8)
• Amber Brown (105.6) vs Liz McCarthy (105.2)
• Amanda Bell (145.6) vs Maria Hougaard Djursaa (148.6)*
• Shannon Sinn (125.4) vs Andrea Lee (125.0)
• Strawweight (115): Jenny Liou Shriver (115.8) vs Jamie Moyle (115.0)
• Kelly McGill (135.8) vs Maegan Goodwin (139.8)**

*Hougaard missed weight and will forfeit 25% of her purse to Bell. Weight contested now at lightweight

**Goodwin missed weight and will forfeit 25% of her purse to McGill. Weight contested now at featherweight

Miscellaneous News

In boxing action Friday:

• Yesica Patricia Marcos defeats Estrella Valverde at 1:48 round 1 to retain the WBA World super bantamweight title in Mendoza, Argentina
• In Trnava, Slovakia, Zita Zatyko defeats Szilvia Szabados by unanimous decision to win the vacant WBF super middleweight title

Ronda Rousey versus Cat Zingano has been moved to February 28.

UFC President Dana White made the announcement this week of the change of date, which was originally set for January 3rd. The match will now co-main event the UFC 184 pay per view in Los Angeles, the hometown of champion Rousey.

The Ultimate Fight Finale will feature all but Justine Kish competing in December 12 in Las Vegas. Most of the matches won’t be announced till the week before the finale.

UFC fighter Bethe Correia sustained a minor eye injury and won’t be available to compete until February.

InvictaFC president Shannon Knapp told MMA Mayhem Radio she will do all in her power to help Cyborg Justino get her a match with Ronda Rousey.

Cyborg seems to be “on schedule” for her cut to 135 for her match December 10 at Invicta.

Tabby Patterson announced her next fight will be against Cara Jo Wesemann at Gladiator Fighting Association in Topeka, KS for their amateur bantamweight title November 13th.

Moeller

With Leah Letson turning pro, Florina Moeller will step up to take part of the Tuff-n-uff/InvictaFC featherweight tournament next weekend.

We will talk to Moeller on the Wombat Sports podcast Sunday to discuss preparing for her first semi-final match and her career as a fighter.

You can listen live here at 1 p.m. pst/4 p.m. est Sunday.

Rumors

InvictaFC atomweight Jessica Philippus tweeted she will be returning to action early next year.

Amateur strawweight standout Kali Robbins will make her pro debut At Super Brawl in Milwaukee January 23^rd.

USA Olympic wrestler Adeline Gray stated in a recent article she is looking to pursue a MMA career after the 2016 Olympics. She won’t start serious training until after then.

Scheduled Matches

Inoue and Kowalkiewicz Courtesy Scott Hirano/ InvictaFC

Pro MMA 

InvictaFC 9 is this weekend with nine scheduled bouts Saturday night in Davenport, Iowa; streaming on UFC Fight Pass at 8 p.m. central time.

You can check out the weigh-in results here.

Shortly after, come back to Wombat Sports and we’ll have the post-fight presser stream.

Also Saturday night, XFCi will start its season season strawweight tournament in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The will stream on XFCMMA.com starting at 10:30 est/7:30 pst.

Strawweight tournament Quarterfinals

• Marcela Yineris vs Liana Ferreira Pirosin (115)
• Marina Moroz vs Karine Silva (115)
• Dora Perjes vs Luana Santos Medeiros (115)
• Fernanda Priscila Barros Pinheiro vs Viviane Pereira (115)

In the co-main event, Julie Werner and Iryna Shaparenko will square off in a non-tournament bout.

In a rare Monday event, DEEP-JEWELS will hold it’s sixth card in Tokyo, Japan. The main event will feature atomweight champion Seo Hee Ham defending her belt against Saori Ishioka.

In other fights on the card:

• Emi Fujino vs Ayaka Miura (115)
• Shizuka Sugiyama vs Yurika Nakakura (135)
• Tomo Maesawa vs Yuko “Amiba” Oya (115)
• Satomi “Sarami” Takano vs Mina Kurobe (105)
• Yukiko Seki vs. Naomi Taniyama (105)
• Brittany Ann Decker vs. Pan Hui (105)

Cage Warriors happens Saturday morning in Newcastle, England as Irene Cabello takes on Vanessa Reinsch in an atomweight bout. The fight will be part of the non-streamed prelims.

In other pro bouts:

• At FWC 19 in Nerang, Queensland, Australia, Lana Kate takjes on Zoie Shreiweis
• Jaymee Jones battles Krystal McGuire in Tulsa, OK at XFN 21
• At XFC Australia in  Mansfield, Queensland, Terissa Wall faces Helen Malone
• Katelyn Dykas fights Taylor Turner at Valor Fights in Pigeon Forge, TN
• At AFC 13 in Brazil Claudia Rey takes on Yelka Torres
• Ana Karla Morais faces Werônica Medeiros at NFA inTrindade, Goias, Brazil

Ammy MMA

In amateur MMA:

• At Clan Wars in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Leah McCourt faces Aoifé Murphy
• Hannah Sears battles Hannah Elswick at King of Jacksonville – Jacksonville, North Carolina
• At Cage Wars in Albany, New York, Amanda Brundige fights Brittany Ehntholt
• In a pair of bouts at Gladius Fights in Ithaca, New York, Janice Meyer takes on Fernanda Araujo and Kate Riley battles Casey Garland (150)
• Stephanie Hull faces Cassie Schmeekle at Shofights in Branson, MO
• At Destiny Na Koa in Honolulu, Hawaii, Angela Lee takes on Audrey Perkins

Boxing

Eva Voraberger will look to defend her WIBF and WBF super flyweight title as she faces Renata Domsodi in Vienna, Austria.

Voraberger (18-3) has won back to back since her last loss, and has 9 KOs to her credit. She won the titles in June.

Domsodi (12-5) is the current WBF International and UBO international bantamweight champion and had 5 KOs to her credit.

Yuko Kuroki will defend her WBC minimumweight title for the first time as she takes on Katia Gutierrez in Fukuoka, Japan.

Kuroki (11-4-1) is unbeaten in her past three fights and won the title in June. Gutierrez is the former IBF world minimumweight champion eight of her last 9 fights.

On other boxing action:

• In Buenos Aires, Argentina, Ruth Stephanie Aquino takes on Laura Martinez
• Viviane Obenauf battles Zsofia Bedo in Berne, Switzerland
• In Hamilton, Bermuda, Teresa Perozzi faces Kali Reis
• Felice Moncelli fights Sasa Janjic in Lazio, Italy

Paaluhi Curtesy Scott Hirano/InvictaFC

With InvictaFC 9 tonight, we do have some representation there.

Our good friend, Asian WMMA expert, and writer of the CJ Report Charlie is our eyes and ears  in Davenport, Iowa. He was able to get some interviews with three of tonight’s participants.

Raquel Pa’aluhi talked about her current move to Vegas and her improved ground game.

“I went to a fight camp at X’Treme Couture and at Drysdale. I trained at the same time that Miesha was training for her fight, but my fight fell through so I was was kinda sitting there. Now that I  know what’s here, I thought I’d be hurting myself if I went back home. So I went home for 10 days, called my dad and mentioned that I wanted to stay in Vegas. My friends said they would help me out, my dad sold my car for me, while I was home I packed my stuff and sold what I didn’t.”

You can read the rest of Pa’aluhi’s interview here.

Mizunki Inoue was of few words, but did talk about her fight with Karolina Kowalkiewicz.

“Karolina is a very good striker that is also good on the ground. I think that the fight might turn into a ground battle, which is ok with me because I want to show what I can do on the ground.”

You can read the rest of Inoue’s interview here.

It’ll be Amber Brown’s InivtcaFC debut as the top 5 atomweight looks to solidify her spot at atomweight.Charlie asked about how she improved since beating a top 5 fight in her last outing and what to expect tonight.

“I’m going to be aggressive, forward pressure in her face, she should expect the knees, maybe go to the body more, I wanted to do that against Kikuyo Ishikawa, but I really wanted to hit her in the head. I’m a lot better at everything now, everything has come a long way.”

You can read Brown’s full interview here.

Charlie will be at the post fight presser asking questions for Wombat Sports as well. You can catch the post fight presser stream on our site after the event.

After an eventful night which saw nine exciting fights, including Barb Honchak  successfully defending her flyweight title.

Join us in watching reaction from InvictaFC president Shannon Knapp and the winners of the night at the post fight press conference shortly after the matches. Stream is below.

Waterson

Tiburcio

InvictaFC President Shannon Knapp announced the last InvictaFC of the year will be heading to Houston December 5th.

With the news of Cyborg Justino out due to a knee injury, Michelle Waterson will step up once again to defend her atomweight title against Brazilian Herica Tiburcio. Tiburcio (8-2) has won three straight and took current UFC strawweight Claudia Gadelha the distance. Tiburcio was set to fight at Invicta 9, but a visa issue had negated her debut.

Waterson dominated Yasuko Tamada in her first title denfence at InvictaFC 8.

Knapp also announced two more fights, including a bantamweight co-main event between Tonya Evinger and Cindy Dadnois. Evinger is currently in Houston training; and Dandois looks to refutrn to action after a few years absence.

In what will most likely be a #1 contenders match, Roxanne Modafferi and Vanessa Porto will battle in a flyweight contest.

The full card will be announced this week. The event will stream on UFC Fight Pass December 5.

If you didn’t get enough blood Halloween night, you got plenty Saturday night in Davenport, Iowa.

Several fighters went to war at InvictaFC 9, with battle scars to prove it. All but one fight went to decision, but most of them kept fans intrigued with displays of amazing striking and some ground work.

Here is our quick summary over events (Photos Courtesy Scott Hirano, Invicta FC):

The Good

Andrea Lee and Jamie Moyle – Breakout Stars of the Night

Lee

Moyle

The future looks bright for two new faces to Invicta.

Andrea Lee is one of the best strikers we’ve seen coming from the amateur ranks, and she didn’t disappoint in her second pro fight. Lee’s striking was not only creative, but crisp and on point. Lee’s mat work was solid as well. Props to Shannon Sinn for hanging in there against a tough opponet, but Lee could be the future of the flyweight division.

Tuff-n-uff tournament winner and pro debuter Jamie Moyle also showed some impressive striking in her win over Jenny Liou. Syndicate MMA has improved Roxanne Modafferi’s striking game, and Moyle goes to show that it wasn’t a fluke by any stretch of the imagination the Vegas based gym is one to look out for. Liou was still a game fighter on the ground, but Moyle could develop as a big part of the new wave of strawweights in Invicta.

Moyle would get a “Performance of the Night” award for her efforts.

McCarthy

McCarthy Proved Worthy in Atomweight Loss; Brown in Title Hunt

In what was a closer battle than we expected, Liz McCarthy showed better control on the ground in the later rounds of her fight with the #4 ranked Amber Brown. It was the blood that McCarthy was displaying on her face that gave Brown the unanimous decision win, but McCarthy looked great in the loss and this setback won’t be a big one going into her next fight.

As for Brown, she solidifies her ranking and is one step closer to getting a world title shot. Her striking is there, but her ground game needs some serious work before considering a run for the gold.

The Bad (Ass)

Kowalkiewicz vs. Mizuki

Mizuki and Kowalkiewicz’s Striking War was a Thing of Beauty

Some people thought Invitca’s strawweight talent would diminish once the UFC took a good chunk of the fighters for TUF 20. These past two cards proved that wrong.

Seeing Mizuki (she decided to drop the “Inoue”) and  Karolina Kowalkiewicz in the cage was like seeing two of the top pro boxers on the planet trade. There wasn’t too many “ahh” moments, but Mizuki’s speed versus Kowalkiewicz using distance saw technique on display, in a fight that could have went either way.

Kowalkiewicz took the split, but Mizuki should not be ashamed at her performance at all. This took “Fight of the Night” honors and could be a candidate for “Fight of the Year”.

Bell

Beast Mode Award – Amanda Bell 

Amanda Bell seemed pretty happy and ready to do some damage when she entered the arena. Bell dominate Maria Hougaard for 4:56 before the ref stopped the fight in the only finish of the night. No clue why she didn’t get a Performance of the Night Bonus (or why she wasn’t on the dais at the post fight presser).

If Cyborg vacates the 145 title, Bell seems primed to fill that spot.

Pa’aluhi

Pa’aluhi’s Breakthrough Moment

Pa’aluhi is always someone interested in fighting the best, which has cost her some losses in the past. Last night, we saw those losses pay off.

Kaitlin Young punished Raquel Pa’aluhi through the first round of their fight, but Pa’aluhi never let it discourage her. Having a strong wrestling game, Pa’aluhi went to the ground where Young has had trouble in the past. Pa’aluhi would take the last two rounds and get the win and a Performance of the Night award to boot.

Pa’aluhi is now one of the top bantamweight prospects in Invicta and has helped the division become relevant again.

The Ugly

Honchak vs. Hashi

The Curse of the Clinch

Takayo Hashi had a game plan and it helped her survive five rounds with champion Barb Honchak, but it didn’t win the battle at all.

Honchak tried to engage in striking with Hashi, only for Hashi to take it to the cage wall to use clinch work. Honchak, to her credit, was using short range striking and was better at pummeling and reversing position. The only highlight was Hashi eventually getting a trip takedown from the position, but otherwise it wasn’t an exciting fight to end the night.

Part of the blame could go to the ref, who might have broke it off a bit more often then he did. You really can’t blame Honchak, who we suspect will have better fights with dance partners in the wings.

The Two Fighters that Missed Weigh Didn’t Look Stellar

Maegan Goodwin wasn’t mentally there against Kelly McGill, and part of the blame could be due to her grandfather’s passing. I don’t think people would have judged her if she pulled out due to a family emergency, but missing weight and losing the way means she needs to work that much harder in her next fight to earn some respect from the fans

Maria Hougaard needs to take a step back and re-think how to proceed in her career. With a great record in Europe, she may think about training in the US for a period of time so her game can compete with a higher class of competition.

Other Musing

Kaitlin Young Still Game but Needs to Take Her Time

Outside of Ronda Rousey, the Glendale Fight Club’s female team has been in a slump. Young only recently joined the team and her grappling game is in need of some major work.

Young still proved the reason why Invicta loves her – she bring exciting fights whenever she hits the cage. Once she gets another 8-12 months in with Rousey and Shayna Baszler, she could be one of the top fighters in the division again.

Colonac vs. Esquibel

Nicdali Rivera-Colonac’s Last Hurrah

Nicdali didn’t really get her head in the game against Jodie Esquibel and it may have sparked the retirement of the 10 year vet of the sport.

Having won only once on her past 5 fights, Nicdali has on several occasions pondered hanging up the gloves. With back to back losses to fighters that are two of the best in the division and a .500 record, it is a pretty good time for her to help the next generation of fighters and end what could be a solid argument for WMMA Hall of Fame inclusion.

Complete InvictaFC 9 Results

Main Event

Barb Honchak (c) def. Takayo Hashi by unanimous decision to retain the flyweight title

Co- Main Event

Karolina Kowalkiewicz def. Mizuki Inoue by split decision

Main Card

• Raquel Pa’aluhi def. Kaitlin Young by unanimous decision
• Jodie Esquibel def. Nicdali Rivera-Calanoc by unanimous decision
• Amber Brown def. Liz McCarthy by unanimous decision
• Amanda Bell def. Maria Hougaard-Djursaa by TKO 4:56 round 1
• Andrea K. Lee def. Shannon Sinn by unanimous decision
• Jamie Moyle def. Jenny Liou Shriver by unanimous decision
• Kelly McGill def. Maegan Goodwin by unanimous decision

After a busy weekend of about two dozen pro WMMA fights across the world, we have seen some interesting changes to Unfiied rankings.

Since InvictaFC 9 happened Saturday, the Unified Committee decided to include Saturday’s results. However, the DEEP-JEWELS results on Monday morning will be included in December’s rankings.

Also several inactive fighters have been dropped off the list…

Coenen vs. Bucci courtesy Bellator

InvictaFC champion Cyborg Justino has been left off the featherweight rankings due to inactivity. Bellator’s Marloes Coenen regains the top spot after her win over Annalisa Bucci. The undefeated Pannie Kianzad is now #2 in the division, followed by Bellator’s Julia Budd (#3) and Invicta’s Faith Van Duin (#4).

Bucci’s loss to Coenen drops her a spot to #6, and Talita Nogueira takes her place at #5. Maria Hougaard’s loss to Amanda Bell drops her out of the top 10, with Bell debuting at #9.Tweet (#8) and Gabrielle Holloway (#10) round out the featherweight top 10.

The top 5 in the strawweights remain the same this month (TUF 20 fighters are exempt from dropping out); however, Karolina Kowalkiewicz’s win over Mizunki Inoue at Invicta gains the Polish fight the #6 spot. Inoue drops to #10.

Lacey Schukman’s inactivity in the atomweight division drops her out of the rankings, giving Jodie Esquibel the #5 spot after her win over Nicdali Rivera-Colonac this past weekend. The rest of the top 10 remains the same.

Bantamweight stays pat this month.

Several flyweight fighters will be dropping this month and in December to strawweight, so we expect some major changes come the end of the month.

You can see the entire Unified Women’s Rankings here.

Catron

Smith

Two female bouts were announced for North Dakota’s “Beatdown MMA” 12th November 29 in New Town, ND Monday night.

Kathina Catron and Rachael Smith will both look to recover from losses in a strawweight encounter. Catron (4-5), a vet of Invicta, has loss her past two bouts after ending 2013 with a win over Susy Watson. After a successful amateur career, Smith lost her pro debut to Raquel Magdaleno in May.

Amateur standout Roma Pawelek will make her pro debut on the card, taking on Ashleigh Heustis. Pawelek  went 5-1 as an amateur, finishing in all of her wins. Heustis is 2-0 as a pro with back to back TKO wins.

No word on if the event will be streamed.

Ham

After her successful title defense on Monday, DEEP-JEWELS 106 champ Seo Hee Ham has signed to the UFC. Charlie Jewett of the CJ Report tweeted the news after several Korean websites broke the story.

Korea’s Ham (15-5) has won six straight fights including her title win over former InvictaFC title challenger Naho Sugiyama. With the UFC planning to have a card in Korea next year, Ham is expected to make her promotional debut then.

With Ham’s exit, the DEEP-JEWELS 106 title will be vacated. No word on who will face off for the vacant title, but don’t expect a lack of challengers. D-J boss Shigeru Saeki told MMARising.com several of the fighters on the roster will be dropping from 115 to 105; with the possibility of a new minimumweight (99 pound) division starting next year.

D-J’s father company DEEP has announced a card on New Year’s Eve card and InvictaFC vet Ayaka Hamsaki is expected to be fighting. Two or three other female bouts could also take place.

The next DEEP-JEWELS event is expected in January.

Kianzad

Siiskonen

A rib injury has sidelined undefeated Polish bantamweight Agnieszka Niedzwiedz in her title match with Sweden’s Pannie Kianzad. However, the promotion will crown a champion this Saturday in London, England.

Finnish fighter Eeva Siiskonen will make her Cage Warriors debut in a battle for the belt. Siiskonen (3-1) will fight outside her home country for the first time with two finishes to her credit.

Th undefeated Kainzad (6-0) finished Megan van Houtum in her Cage Warriors debut. She has three finishes in her wins.

It will be on the main card, and will stream on MMAJunkie.com in the US Saturday.

Tuesday morning, InvictaFC released the rest of the matches for their upcoming 10th card in Houston, TX December 5.

In what will be a flyweight contender’s match, #3 Unified ranked Jennifer Maia will face #5 ranked DeAnna Bennett.

Maia (9-3-1) has back to back wins in Brazil this year, and will make her return to the promotion. Her last fight in Invicta saw her lose a decision to current UFC fighter Leslie Smith in a title eliminator. A win will get her back in consideration for a title fight.

The undefeated Bennett (5-0) got her biggest win of her career with a TKO win over Michelle Ould at InvictaFC 8. She has finished all but one of her pro opponents.

After a successful debut at lightweight, Charmaine Tweet will return to featherweight to take on #4 ranked Faith Van Duin.

#8 ranked Tweet (6-4) has won 5 of her last 6 fights, with those 5 wins being finishes. In her last outing at InvictaFC 8, Tweet handed Veronica Rothenhausler her first defeat.

New Zealand’s Van Duin (4-1) made her mark winning the Storm Damage one night tournament last August in Australia. She is coming off a loss to Arlene Blenclowe.

After impressive debuts at InvictaFC 8, Mexico’s Irene Aldana and Alexa Grasso will return to action in separate matches against Marion Reneau and Alida Gray respectfully. Also announced, Peggy Morgan, who will be returning to featherweight, will take on promotional debuter Andria Wawro; InvictaFC vets Jinh Yu Frey and Cassie Robb will face off in an atomweight encounter; and Rachael Ostovich and Evva Johnson will make their promotional debuts.

The main event will feature Michelle Waterson defending her atomweight title for the second time as she faces Brazilian Hérica Tibúrcio. The co-main event will see Tonya Evinger and Cindy Dandois in a bantamweight match; and the featured bout will see Roxanne Modafferi versuses Vanessa Porto in a rematch of their 2008 encounter.

InvictaFC 10 will emanate from Houston, Texas December 5th and will stream on UFC Fight Pass.

Amber Leibrock Courtesy Ray Kasprowicz/Tuff-n-uff

The finals are set for the the Tuff-n-uff/InvictaFC featherweight and lightweight tournaments.

The featherweight tournament kicked off with late replacement Amber Leibrock getting a 25 second KO over Pamela Sorenson. In the other semi-final Paola Ramirez defeated Heather Wilson by unanimous decision.

The lightweight tournament saw Felicia Spencer gets the second round armbar over Leanne Foster and Jessica Richer defeated Janie Konyek by unanimous decision.

The finals are expecting to be in February.

In a non-tournament bout, Brieta Carpenter got the KO over Florina Moeller in 37 seconds.

The highlight of the weekend happened at BlacKOut Fighting Championship in Kansas City, MO.

Jessica Middleton hit a spinning backfist to knock out Holly Torrez in round 2.

You can watch the video here.

Conflict MMA had two female bouts, including a title match in Columbia, North Carolina.

Alexa Conners gained her second promotional title as she submitted Alyssa Vasquez by armbar at 1:01 of round 1 to win the flyweight belt.

Conners, who is also the strawweight champion, will defend her 115 title against Charity Walker in 2015. Walker also won Saturday, submitting Andy Nguyen by rear naked choke in round 3.

San Diego Combat Academy went 3-0 with their women’s team over the weekend.

Besides Richer’s win at Tuff-n-uff, Ilima Lei McFarland and Michelle Montano both got armbar wins at the Xtreme Fight Series in San Diego. They beat Angela Hancock (round 3) and Breanna Bland (round 1) respectively.

In other action:

• At Dynasty Combat in Kearney, NE, Jen Bacon defeated Mercedes Timmerman by unanimous decision
• Lauren Braccia defeated Sadee Monserrate Williams by unanimous decision at Ring of Combat in Rahway, New Jersey
• At ICE FC in Manchester, England, Becky Martin defeated Katy Horlick by TKo round 1 to win the flyweight title

Tate

McMann

Miesha Tate has finally has a next opponent and it isn’t Bethe Correia.

UFC Tonight announced Wednesday Miesha Tate and Sara McMann will face each other for the first time at UFC 183 in Las Vegas January 31.

Tate (15-5) is coming off a win over Rin Nakai, handing the Japanese star her first loss. After back to back wins, Tate still has a road to climb to gain another match with UFC champion Ronda Rousey.

McMann (8-1) recovered from her loss to Rousey, gaining a split decision win over Lauren Murphy. McMann hopes a win over Tate will get her back into the title hunt.

The match is expected to be on the preliminary card on Fox Sports 1 January 31.