Women’s MMA Makes it way into Time Magazine – Great Picture Sofie Bagherdai punching Stephanie Palmer
Monday, July 23rd, 2007Time magazine just published an interesting article about Female MMA. Time highlights the growing nature of Mixed Martial Arts and the newly emerging Female Fighter Market:
“Over the past few years the popularity of mixed martial arts, the full-combat sport that combines elements of boxing, kickboxing, wrestling, jujitsu and other disciplines, has exploded. One card in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), the most prominent men’s MMA organization, whose fights are shown on Spike TV and pay-per-view, drew more television viewers than the baseball playoffs” Source – Time Magazine Online
Apparently most females fighters on average make $1,000 per fight… It would be nice to make it into “dreamland” as Lisa King says – the UFC, but Dana White has no plans to add a female division:
“”I don’t want to see two women beatin’ on each other,” says UFC president Dana White. “I don’t like it.” White admits he sounds like a chauvinist, which fires up the women’s fighters even more. “That is so ridiculous, especially in this day and age,” says fighter Lisa King. “I’m not a women’s lib person or anything, but we’re doing everything else, so why not this?”" – Time Magazine Online
Check out this great overhead picture of Sofie Bagherdai: 
Source: Time Magazine Online.