Squirrelfighter

Coenen, Carano, Fujii. Just to name three other legitimate well rounded fighters.

I think they compare remarkably well to their male counterparts by weightclass. (135, 145, 115).

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The women's divisions will fold once the contracts are up. At that point, some of the smaller promotions will sign cyborg and carano and a few others, so there will still be women's fights somewhere. It will not be on a zuffa stage however.

xeberus

i know all three and ive seen them fight, we both know what you just said was a pretty big stretch. coenen and carano, they are pretty well rounded. And Fujii is a wizard on the ground. But these three do not compare like cristiane, who I was only comparing, these three fall short by a distance to even be compared to mediocre male fighters. Megumi is definitely my favorite of the three to watch. And I would watch carano if she fights again, but it wouldnt be entirely for... fighting merit :P

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It will disappear.

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Dana already said he changed his mind about woman's MMA about a year ago so Im hoping they build it up.

If they put a little effort into it we could see some good fights.

I love woman's MMA.

Squirrelfighter

How do they fall short.

Fujii, the best 115lb female fighter by a huge margin. He's only lost a few times, and makes most opponent's look like its their first day in the gym. She's a wizard on the ground who can set up a ground finish with her stand up. (The exact same description as Damien Maia)

Coenen, the top 135er. She's got pretty good stand up, even better JJ, and more heart than a whole lot of male fighters I've seen. Powershots or not, it takes intestinal fortitude to get the shit smacked out of you for 3 rounds before pulling out the miracle sub. The ability to come back from dominant GnP adveristy to finish the opponent by miracle triangle choke, sounds remarkably like the description of a 6'3" Brazilian fellow we all know.

Carano has tons of hype. She's a legitimate MT fighter who's beat the snot out of female Thai fighters on the feet, and in MMA has done pretty well for herself. The only blemish on her record is against the (wo)man who has the title.

The point being, the actions of female fighters has a comparative to their male counterparts. There are plenty of technically skilled versatile female fighters. But you can't compare someone with the muscle density and strength of a 135lbs woman to someone with the muscle density and strength of a 170, 185lb man (its like comparing Kenny Florian to Cain Velasquez). Technically you can, but when it comes to KOs, and muscle focused activities like dirty boxing/top control, stylistically, its a whole 'nother ball game. The physicological differences make a comparison between the two foolish and moot.

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Ming Fu

Gina Carano for ring girl anyone?

xeberus

In almost every way.

Megumi is good on the ground, but her striking is terrible. Comparing her to maia is an insult, she will never be as good as maia is right now at any point in her career.

Coenen's stand up is also pretty bad, not as bad as megumi but its atrocious. She does have plenty of heart, more than some of her male counterparts.

Carano is hot and has striking legitimate striking creds. But speed/power/explosiveness is the bread, butter and wine of striking and she just doesn't have enough to be a real top level striker.

The statement, "the actions of female fighters has a comparative to their male counterparts." is true in the sense that a honda civic is comparable to a corvette in a race.

I'm comparing them by weight class. Cyborg to kenny florian, frankie edgar (about the same size), jose aldo etc, coenen to urijah etc. Megumi is amazing as destroying girls the size of my anerexic ex-gf.. Actually my ex was bigger than those girls x.X

Well they are comparable because they are doing the same activity. Its just the level at which they do the activity is far separated, which is what im saying.

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Just for the record, Fujii lost only once and that was a clear robbery decision.

With your whole post I would basically agree, though I also agree with Xerebus that they are not on the same level as their top male counterparts, also not technique-wise - not yet. But, as I've already written before, women are still quite new in MMA and in the beginning of the UFC there also was not a big talent pool of male fighter's and the technical level was nowhere near of what there is today, hence everybody points out the big and fast evolutions in MMA. Obviously that's something people tend to forget. So women MMA should also be given the time to evolve and it should be in public, as it was with male MMA, to attract new talents and give the synergetic effects for evolution.

UFC_OWNS

an organisation like the ufc doesnt have to waste valuable card space with these new divs and loads of talent everywhere to make room for the womens div, i mean maybe japanese promotions and bellator and smaller orgs wanna do it but no not the ufc and they shouldn't. im not going to say women dont do mma just quit, do whatever you want but most of us dont want womens fights on the biggest fighting organisation in the world.

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