Signings/Scouting WMMA Discussion #29

[aerius]

Joanna and Valentina training together. It's cool how they're good friends even though they've fought each other 4 times in 2 different sports.

 

[Mmmmmmma1234]

Not only did Robertson win nab her Rodriguez #9 but retiring her opened up the door for Loma to finally get ranked #15 (even if her last win was uninspired she's got a good UFC record) should open up a good name for her.

 

[werepig]

THURSDAY, MAY 8TH

[MMA]
EFC 123: Africa vs Brazil - Sandton, South Africa
Main Card – iPPV – 1:00pm ET / 10:00am PT

Amanda Lino vs. Mariana Salles


FRIDAY, MAY 9TH

[MMA]
ONE Friday Fights 107 - Bangkok, Thailand
Main Card – YouTube – 8:30am ET / 5:30am PT

Junior Fairtex vs. Vero Nika
Zemfira Alieva vs. Norika Ryu


[MMA]
PFL MENA 1: 2025 Regular Season - Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Main Card – DAZN – 12:00pm ET / 9:00am PT

Eman Almudhaf vs. Shamara Braga


[MMA]
Synergy FC 20 - Springfield, Missouri, USA
Main Card – iPPV – 6:00pm ET / 3:00pm PT

Cornelia Jestice vs. Elizabeth Lee
Christy Jestice vs. Riley Colburn


[MMA]
LFA 208: Mecate vs. Reyes - Santa Cruz, California, USA
Preliminary Card – YouTube – 8:30pm ET / 5:30pm PT

Aline David vs. Stephanie Nayen


[BOXING]
MVP Prospects 12 - Orlando, Florida, USA
Main Card – DAZN – 8:00pm ET / 5:00pm PT

Natalie Dove vs. Nayeli Rodriguez
Elise Soto vs. Colleen Davis


[BOXING]
Dominguez vs. Rodriguez - New York City, New York, USA
Main Card – DAZN – 8:00pm ET / 5:00pm PT

Catharine Aiura vs. Peggy Whitmore


SATURDAY, MAY 10TH

[MUAY THAI]
Rajadamnern World Series - Bangkok, Thailand
Main Card – DAZN / YouTube – 8:45am ET / 5:45am PT

Buachompoo vs. Zarina Islamova
Duangdawnoi vs. Kaosuay


[MUAY THAI]
Fairtex Fight - Bangkok, Thailand
Main Card - YouTube –

Pin Pet vs. Aline Seiberth
Tub Tin Siam vs. Romaysa Rhouni


[MMA]
Element Fight Night 5 - Adelaide, SA, Australia
Main Card – iPPV – 2:00am ET / 11:00pm PT

Scarlett Porteous vs. Courtney Mardow


[MMA]
JCK Fight Night 98 - Luliang, Shanxi, China
Main Card – YouTube – 7:00am ET / 4:00am PT

Xiaoni Liu vs. Anastasia Feofanova


[KICKBOXING/MUAY THAI]
Combat Fight Series 24 - Sevenoaks, England
Main Card – iPPV (CFSTV.com) – 9:00am ET / 6:00am PT

Katy Jebson vs. Sian Jennings
Phoebe Ilott vs. Indy Briar


[MMA]
We Love MMA 79 - Düsseldorf, Germany
Main Card –

Meryem Karatorak vs. Melek Kayis


[MMA]
PFL Europe 1: 2025 Regular Season - Belfast, Northern Ireland
Main Card – DAZN – 12:00pm ET / 9:00am PT

Gemma Auld vs. Sammy Jo Luxton


[MMA]
UFC 315: Muhammad vs. Della Maddalena - Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Main Card – iPPV (ESPN+) – 10:00pm ET / 7:00pm PT

Valentina Shevchenko vs. Manon Fiorot
Alexa Grasso vs. Natália Silva

Preliminary Card – ESPN / ESPN+ – 8:00pm ET / 5:00pm PT

Jéssica Andrade vs. Jasmine Jasudavicius


[MMA]
CAM 31 - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Main Card – YouTube – 6:00pm ET / 3:00pm PT

Angeles Dominguez vs. Julieta Gomez


[MUAY THAI]
Attack Fight 37 - Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Main Card – Combate – 7:00pm ET / 4:00pm PT

Isabela Monique vs. Ana Clara


[BOXING]
Navarrete vs. Suarez - San Diego, California
Main Card – ESPN / ESPN+ – 5:30pm ET / 2:30pm PT

Perla Bazaldua vs. Mona Ward


[BOXING]
Lubin vs. Holmes: ProBox Fight Night - Kissimmee, Florida, USA
Main Card – YouTube – 6:30pm ET / 3:30pm PT

Nazarena Romero vs. Mayeli Flores


[MMA]
RDC 19 - Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA
Main Card – iPPV – 8:00pm ET / 5:00pm PT

Adriana Peret vs. Rebecca Bryggman


[MMA]
True Revelation 60 - Burlington, Iowa, USA
Main Card – iPPV – 8:00pm ET / 5:00pm PT

Jacqueline Washington vs. Shyla Hiler


[BARE KNUCKLE]
BKFC 74: Richman vs. Dyer - Salt Lake City, Utah
Main Card – DAZN – 10:00pm ET / 7:00pm PT

Shelby Cannon vs. Kathryn Paprocki


SUNDAY, MAY 11TH

[KICKBOXING]
RISE: Fire Ball Nagoya - Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Main Card – ABEMA TV – 2:00am ET / 11:00pm PT

Arina Kobayashi vs. Mei Miyamoto


[KICKBOXING]
STRIKE NEXUS 5 - Tokyo, Japan
Main Card – iPPV (YouTube) – 3:30am ET / 12:30am PT

Hanako Ushiyama vs. Momoka Midorikawa
Riku Yasukawa vs. AKI
Sayaka vs. Izumi Fukawa


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[werepig]

Not only did Robertson win nab her Rodriguez #9 but retiring her opened up the door for Loma to finally get ranked #15 (even if her last win was uninspired she's got a good UFC record) should open up a good name for her.

i'm a little surprised, but thrilled - this'll make her the first thai to be ranked in the UFC too

looking up the rankings i'd say loma would get past luana pinheiro easily, but everyone upwards would be a tough test. it's mostly to do with loma's low output. on a good day i could see her getting past ribas but that's about as optimistic as i can allow myself

 

[leto1776]

Just another fight where it’s like, “eh, okay.”



Battle of the middling Brazilians. At least there are rankings on the line, and Ribas is fighting in the same division twice in a row.



Anyone taking the odds on Inaba?



So SALT is the current Pancrase strawweight champ, but went back to home promotion Shooto recently and lost there. Machi is who Rizin want to be their next female star. Hometown fight or SALT, but Rizin wants Machi to win. At least they have Machi facing a strawweight this time, after a Korean atomweight her last time out. Although, it’s the same strawweight that got taken down and submitted by Microweight champ Saori Oshima. SALT will have a nice ht./reach advantage, but she’ll really need to work on her sprawl and putting the jab out there

 

[leto1776]

Event poster of the year. Good luck beating this:

 

[Mittens]

Ditcheva is gonna make me consider actually finally watching a PFL card instead of waiting for the fights to be uploaded to youtube. Is there a sensible way (ie: no bullshit "apps" like "fite.tv" or "dazn" etc.) to see PFL?

 

[werepig]

Ditcheva is gonna make me consider actually finally watching a PFL card instead of waiting for the fights to be uploaded to youtube. Is there a sensible way (ie: no bullshit "apps" like "fite.tv" or "dazn" etc.) to see PFL?

if you're lucky maybe PFL will have a broadcast deal with a local network or attached to an existing streaming service. in Australia I can watch PFL through Stan, which I only subbed to for the Olympics.

 

[Mittens]

if you're lucky maybe PFL will have a broadcast deal with a local network or attached to an existing streaming service. in Australia I can watch PFL through Stan, which I only subbed to for the Olympics.

Fuck. Seems like it's Dazn here. And I refuse to use either Dazn or Fite.Tv due to their names.

So i'll watch later for free then.

 

[Eater of Souls]

Shev via TKO r4.
Grasso by DEC
Jessica Andrade via prison sex beat-down.

 

[Necrocrawler]

Going safe this week

Shev UD
Silva UD
Jasu by UD (i doubt she subs Andrade, even though she's subable)

 

[werepig]

ufc picks this week - the "old guard gets smeshed " edition

- jas jas is huge and is gonna smesh jessica in front of a home crowd :'( jas GNP

- alexa is coming back from a leg injury, i expect that n. silva is gonna exploit that by kicking the everloving hell outta it :'( silva TKO

- i don't actually believe that manon has what it takes to beat val, but for this edition i'm gonna go with (relative) youth and physicality. IF manon doesn't gas too badly then i could see her forward motion persuading the judges that she won it. fiorot UD

 

[Mittens]

Hopes:
-Fiorot or Val entertainingly
-Grasso (Silva ok too)
-Violence

Fears & Expectations:

-Val boringly
-Grasso is not really back from injury and either re-injures mid-match or the fight is just bad due to that
-Leaning

 

[Xuh]

SHEV - I always thought this would be an easy fight for her years ago (after all she beat fullsize Holly Holmuu and Manon is the diet version), now it's here I'm not so sure though. But I think Val is still way craftier on the feet. I'm surprised a lot of people think Val will need to wrestle vs Manon's striking - I think it's Val's striking vs Manon's wrestling. Also think Manon might have cardio trouble.

GRASSO - because how can anyone be disloyal to Alexa?

(Silva has looked good but against v slow grapplers or v old and slow kickboxers - Alexa isn't so slow, is at her peak, has dem handz, and is the rightful CHAMP if not for Val's FSB dirty tricks getting endless rematches until she could snatch the belt back and run off to the hills).

JASU - hopefully via Cachoeiraesque beating. Down with Andrade!

 

[MajorTB]

I am going with Schevchenko, Silva, & Jas. Super pumped as I will be there tonight!

 

[Eater of Souls]

I am going with Schevchenko, Silva, & Jas. Super pumped as I will be there tonight!

Cool. Been a while since I have been to a live event. Hope you enjoy the hell out of.

 

[Mmmmmmma1234]

Wouldn't mind shev proving me wrong but I don't think she's got enough left for a beast like Manon so I'm picking Manon.

I like grasso but I love silva so I'm picking the train to roll on.

Jaz should be able to comfortably out grapple Andrade.

 

[Mmmmmmma1234]

i'm a little surprised, but thrilled - this'll make her the first thai to be ranked in the UFC too

looking up the rankings i'd say loma would get past luana pinheiro easily, but everyone upwards would be a tough test. it's mostly to do with loma's low output. on a good day i could see her getting past ribas but that's about as optimistic as i can allow myself

That's where I see her current sealing now too I'd also like to think she'd be Pennington who's getting older. Her losses are already to hill and Loopy so I don't think she's currently improved enough for them

 

[Jackonfire]

I went with the vets, Andrade, Grasso, and Val. Not really confident with any of them.

 

[Eater of Souls]

I went with the vets, Andrade, Grasso, and Val. Not really confident with any of them.

Same. Makes for a more interesting evening, methinks.