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Celine Haga - Another promising Asian female fighter

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Celine Haga (Fight Finder) started out in Japanese female MMA organizations after only one year of training. From the outset, she was fed to opponents that were way more experienced and was outclassed in all her fights.

She has basically restarted her career.
She recently moved to the States and is now training with Jackson MMA.She seems much happier and the training is really making a difference. She won her first fight (since training at Jackson MMA) against Natasha Creger.
I hope the UFC will eventually sign her.

Her boyfriend is famous MMA fighter Joachim Hansen (Fight Finder).
Interestingly, Celine, who is ethnically Korean, is from Norway. She was adopted.
Her biological family are in Korea, but she's never met them.
She's still searching for them.

Her English is good enough and she has a cute personality (along with a tough fighting spirit).

Anyway, Celine's story makes me wonder what would happen if Rin Nakai and other Asian fighters trained in the US.

Also, are there any other active MMA couples that you can think of?








 
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nice. celine haga! yay! :D

other couples...bryan caraway and meisha tate, jorge and zoila frausto-gurgel (but jorge just retired), gegard mousasi and cindy dandois, joey villasenor and holly holm, rose namajunas and pat berry (still kickboxing but retired from mma), joanne calderwood and james doolan
 
thanks for the creger fight, by the way! :D i'd only seen pictures of the armbar before. it was a beautiful takedown to start, with opponent being way too aggressive

the armbar was awesome. :cool:
 
So does this mean that Joachim has also moved to Albuquerque and is also training with Jacksons?
 
I've been training bjj with Celine since she moved to albuquerque at gb new Mexico. She is a talented grappler and a super hard worker. Her career had a bad start because she was too brave for her own good. Her skills have caught up to her bravery now and she is going to make some waves.

SBC Joachim is not in Albuquerque
 
She's beaten two fighters with a winning record (Sugiyama and Nagano).

New breed.
 
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