Two Women Kick Butt In Historical MMA Main Event

By Germain Lussier on August 14th, 2009

The last thing you ladies want to read about on a Web site like Twirlit is people fighting. However, once in a while, there’s an exception. And that’s when one of your own gets in the ring with the life of the sport at stake.

Saturday night on Showtime, for the first time in the history of the major Mixed Martial Arts organizations, two women will be the main event of a card. And more so, one of those women is Gina Carano, a beautiful undefeated fighter who was both on “American Gladiators” and a Maxim Magazine model. She’s like the Danica Patrick of MMA. (Or, if you need a male equivalent, think the Tom Brady, Michael Jordan or Alex Rodriguez of female fighting.) That’s because she encompasses everything that women aspire to be. Beautiful, smart, but also an ass kicker. She can walk a red carpet and walk all over your face.

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She’ll be getting in the cage against a Brazilian woman named Cris “Cyborg” Santos. They’ll tussle over the 145 pound Female Championship.

How important is Saturday’s fight? As Yahoo Sports said, “There wouldn’t be a women’s fight on television, let alone headlining the card, if Carano weren’t involved. If Carano quit fighting tomorrow, though, she’d take women’s MMA down with her.”

So if you think women deserve equal time in the fast rising sport of Mixed Martial Arts, certainly put on Showtime at 10:30 EST Saturday. The face of female MMA demands it.

And if you’d like to read more about mainstream MMA fighting, on Nickelodeon, check out this story.