Ronda Rousey vs Sarah Kaufman confirmed for August 18th Strikeforce card

Strikeforce officially announced today that women’s Bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey (5-0) will make her highly-anticipated initial title defense against former champion Sarah Kaufman (15-1) at Valley View Casino Center in San Diego, Califonia, on Saturday, August 18. Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker said via press release: “We’re excited to head back to the Valley View Casino Center in San Diego with the first title defense of bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey, arguably the best female fighter

Ronda Rousey vs Sarah Kaufman slated for August 18 in San Diego

Strikeforce women’s Bantamweight Champion Ronda Rousey (5-0 MMA, 3-0 SF) will defend her title against former title-holder, Sarah Kaufman (15-1 MMA, 6-1 SF), on August 18, in San Diego at Valley View Casino Center, which has hosted two previous Strikeforce shows. The event will include a main card on Showtime and preliminary fights on Showtime Extreme.Rousey won the title with a first-round armbar-submission over Miesha Tate in March. The Olympic bronze-medal judoka has yet to see a second round. She has

Ronda Rousey discusses Sarah Kaufman, Dana White, and the effects of her newfound fame

Hot on the heels of the announcement that she will be fighting Sarah Kaufman in August, Ronda Rousey comments on a variety of MMA topics to stir some interest for the women’s side of the sport. Generating some smack talk between Kaufman and herself via Twitter, Rousey also talks about Marloes Coenen calling her out at the recent Invicta FC 1 in Kansas City. She details how she and Dana White are attempting to make WMMA more popular, and how she has backed up all of her brash talk with legit skills. It

Ronda Rousey to defend Strikeforce belt against Sarah Kaufman in August

A report has surfaced today that Strikeforce Women’s Bantamweight champion Ronda “Rowdy” Rousey will make her first title defense later this summer against former champ Sarah Kaufman. Tentatively set for August, there is not a confirmed date nor location as of yet.
Rousey is of course the most talked-about topic in WMMA currently, utilizing world-class Judo skills to slam her opponents and submit them seemingly at will. The first American woman ever to win an Olympic medal in Judo, Rousey

Miesha Tate explains her gruesome injury at the hands of Ronda Rousey

Miesha Tate came out with some specific details this weekend at Invicta FC 1 concerning her brutal arm injury. Stemming from her Strikeforce Women’s Bantamweight title loss in March to Ronda Rousey, Tate has since kept quiet on the subject. However it now appears that she is ready to talk about the subject. When asked the extent of her injuries she answered the following via fightlinker.com:“I basically tore everything. I tore the inner and outer sides of my ligaments attached to the muscles and

Marloes Coenen is coming for Ronda Rousey after win at inaugural Invicta FC

Right after she claimed a dominant victory in the very first Invicta FC, Marloes Coenen wasted no time in calling out Strikeforce Women’s champion Ronda Rousey, who owns the belt that Coenen once possessed. After putting on a ground-game clinic by utilizing short elbows and beating Romy Ruyssen handily, Coenen looks to be back on her winning ways. She had not fought since she lost a title bout to Miesha Tate in July of 2011. Coenen had the following to say, via mixedmartialarts.com:
“It was a long hiatus

Ronda Rousey to train with the Diaz brothers

The Strikeforce Women’s Bantamweight division may have a reason to become a little bit more concerned as the champion, Ronda Rousey, is looking to expand her training.
The 5-0 Rousey has become known and feared for her brutal armbars, the submission hold she has used to end each of her five professional and three amateur fights, with only one of those fights going past the first minute.  The reason her potential future opponents need to be concerned is the fact that Rousey is going to spend time

Ronda Rousey: If the person doesn’t tap you keep going

On Saturday Strikeforce crowned a new Women’s Bantamweight Champion. Ronda Rousey took the title from Miesha Tate via an armbar that forced Tate to tap before the first round came to an end. The submission victory was Rousey’s fifth in five professional MMA fights, all coming in the first round and all coming via armbar.
The armbar left Tate’s arm twisted in what can kindly be called an unnatural angle prior to her tap.  There were some that said the referee should have stepped in