#Women's mma

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A while back I commissioned some art from @cadhla182 and it came out very well! The idea was that Nico and Laura had infiltrated an underground fighting ring before teaming up to take it down. A comment on the post of this on twitter about how mismatched the fight would be got me thinking... and thinking... And I overthought it.

I ended up working out an entire powers-free MMA AU for the women of the Marvel Universe, complete with taking into account first appearances 'prime fighting' ages, and the like. I've got SPREADSHEETS for this thing. So, it turned out Nico and Laura are in different weight divisions. Nico's a Strawweight. Laura Kinney ended up in Flyweight. So, I got to thinking -- who should Nico and Laura be matched against? I managed to work out a list of top contenders in the various weight classes. Some would utterly trounce Nico even in an MMA AU, but others might be better matches. I can't decide myself, who do you think would be a good match for her? Yes, I plan on commissioning this once the poll is over!

There are others in the division, but what I'm looking for is someone on her level, not someone who would overwhelm her. Specifically, Kate Pryde, Jeanet Foucault, Nadia Van Dyne, and Daisy Johnson round out the "Top 16" in that division. "But what about--" Probably not in that division, or you're thinking of a very obscure character, "What about Janet Van Dyne?!" Retired Champion, currently mentoring Nadia, but might be coaxed out of retirement for one more match... If I can ever really round down a Top 8 from this list! (What about Laura and her opponent? Well, that I've narrowed down to 4: Kate Bishop, Illyana Rasputina, Mantis, and Squirrel Girl -- but that's hopefully going to be easier to figure out...)

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Savannah Marshall debuting for PFL

Represent love!

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Gina Carano

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Cris Cyborg She is the only MMA fighter in history, to become a Grand Slam Champion, holding world championships across four major mixed martial arts promotions.

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Ronda Rosey

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Bravo deserved all the bravos after this match. Galindo didn't stand a chance.

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It probably could have turned into that if it'd been given the chance to breathe and last past 33 chapters.

Ironically one of the characters in the manga even goes on a monologue about how even as the heavyweight champion of women's MMA in Japan she has to keep a normal day job because there just wasn't enough interest in the sport from male or female fans for her to make enough money on a title card to make a living.

The manga was canceled less than 10 chapters later.

Fortunately the author behind Kengan Ashura is filling that void with his latest work: ST☆R: Strike it Rich

And it's got all that goodness that Kengan had, which as a Baki clone brought the insanity with spades:

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Sure, Twitter deleted the Jake Shields tweet, but they also deleted tweets pointing out that it was incitement.

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🍒 Gina...

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