It's kind of hard to believe, but Valentina Shevchenko has never been MMA Junkie's Female Fighter of the Year – until now. For a dominant UFC champion who racked up seven women's flyweight title ...
Ann Osman looks un-impressed as she glances at photographs of her prefight weigh-in on social-media sites. This isn’t because her opponent, Aya Saeid Saber, tried to provoke her before their ...
The landscape of women’s MMA has been shaped by seismic showdowns, Rousey vs. Holm, Cyborg vs. Nunes, Weili vs. Joanna, but none have carried the magnitude, anticipation, or legacy implications of ...
How do the best mixed martial artists on the planet measure up against each other, regardless of division? That's the question our USA TODAY Sports/MMA Junkie women's pound-for-pound rankings aims to ...
Not many sports give women similar prestige as their male counterparts, but the growing prominence of female UFC stars such as Ronda Rousey, Liz Carmouche and Misha Tate has almost given MMA that ...
Valentina Shevchenko may be one of the top female UFC fighters of all time but MMA is not the only sport she excels in. The two-time UFC Women’s Flyweight champion is the #1 pound-for-pound female ...
One of the biggest fights in women’s MMA history is set to take place this weekend at UFC 322. A dream clash between Valentina Shevchenko and Zhang Weili will serve as the co-main event on Saturday ...
Din Thomas thinks something has been missing from women's MMA in recent years, and he hopes it can come back as big fights loom on the horizon. It's now been more than a dozen years since UFC 157 in ...