Gina Carano

 Hi, my name is Ariyan! For, a couple months I am going to be blogging about Women Mixed Martial Artists. I am really interested in this topic because I train in mixed martial arts too. People think that guys should only do this sport, but their wrong. Women are just as tough as men. When I watch women fight in the octagon, it really inspires me to want to get in on the action.

                This week I am going to talk about Gina Carano  also known has “Conviction”. In my opinion, Gina does not look like she would fight. I think she looks like a model more than a mixed martial artist. She was born on April 12, 1982 in Dallas, Texas. She is 5ft 8in weighing at 143 pounds. 143 pounds is considering a middle weight fighter. Carano started fighting out of Master Toddy gym is Las Vegas. She is now training under Team Jackson where she is becoming a better mixed martial artist.

Gina is a professional in Muay Thai with a record of 12-1. This means she has won twelve of her matches and lost one. Her MMA record is 7-1. This means she has won seven of her fights and lost one. On, February 10, 2007 she fought a “fight of the night” against Julie Kedzie and defeated her. This was the first female fight televised on Showtime! Carano had a big match with Cris Santos. Carano was defeated and everyone was shocked about it. Strikeforce was hoping to see her come back and in February 2011 she announced that she will be back for a fight in June. Mysteriously she was pulled from the match. They say that she failed her pre-fight medical examination and could not fight. Rumors say that she was pregnant. No one really knows how or why she failed the test. Gina then announced that we will be seeing her fight sometime in 2011!