Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Vanessa Mariscal vs. Sarah D'Alelio



On Saturday, April, 28 at Invicta Fighting Championships 1: "Coenen vs. Ruyssen" at Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Missouri

Vanessa Mariscal (2-0-0) will take on Sarah "The Monster" D'Alelio (4-2-0) in a 135-pound professional MMA match.

Vanessa is a 5'7 fighter from El Segundo, California. She trains at VMX.

Vanessa has had a very successful start to her career with two impressive victories over Colleen Schneider and Jessica Halverson. Both of those wins came by rear-naked choke. 

Vanessa is known as a submission specialist.

Sarah D'Alelio is a 5'7 31 year old fighter from Olympia, Washington. She trains at Combat Sports Academy in Dubin, California.



Sarah is on a two fight losing streak including losses to Ronda Rousey by controversial armbar submission and Julie Kedzie by decision.

Before the two fight losing streak Sarah had a four fight winning streak to start off her career with victories over Raquel Pa'aluchi, Melissa Steele, Colleen Schneider and Sasha Oriza.

With all four of her wins coming by finish, Sarah would be considered more of a ground fighter with three of her wins coming by submission.


Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Sally Krumdiack vs. Sarah Schneider


On Saturday, April, 28 at Invicta Fighting Championships 1: "Coenen vs. Ruyssen" at Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Missouri

Sally "Slick" Krumdiack (9-4-0) will take on  Sarah "White Tiger" Schneider (5-5-0) in a 115-pound professional MMA match.

Sally is a 5'3 29 year old fighter from Bellingham, Washington. She trains at Charlie's Combat Club.

In her last fight in July of last year Sally defeated Sarah Maloy by armbar. Her fight before that one was a loss to top ranked Rosi sexton at 125-pounds.

Sally holds victories over Kitamura (6-1), Rivera-Calanoc (7-5), Nerney (1-3), Coolbaugh (7-5), Welsh (1-4), Roy (0-2), Duckworth (0-1) and Pullen (0-2)

Her losses have all been against top competition including highly ranked fighters Saori Ishioka, Tara LaRosa, and Jessica Penne.

She is known as a n all around fighter with three of her five finishes by way of submission and two by way of TKO.
Sarah is a 5'3 31 year old fighter from Raytown, Missouri. She trains at American Jiu Jitsu Academy.

In her last fight on October, 1st of last year Sarah defeated Ivanna Coleman by armbar in the first round of their match.

Before that win Sarah had lost three fights in a row against Megumi Fujii at 120-pounds, Adrienne Jenkins at 135-pounds and Sarah Kaufman at 135-pounds. Her other losses came against Jennifer Tate and Tonya Evinger, all at 135-pounds.

She hold victories over top ranked 135-pound and 145-pound fighters, Julie Kedzie, Ashley Sanchez and Kaitlin Young.

Sarah is a ground specialist with three of her four finishes coming by armbar and the other submission coming by way of the rear-naked choke.

It is good to see both of these ladies fighting at a weight where they will not have a weight disadvantage.




Monday, April 23, 2012

Nicdali Rivera-Calanoc vs. Amy Davis

 


On Saturday, April, 28 at Invicta Fighting Championships 1: "Coenen vs. Ruyssen" at Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Missouri

Nicdali  "Night Queen" Rivera-Calanac (7-5-0) will go up against Amy "Lil Dynamite" Davis (2-2-0) in a 105-pound professional MMA match.

Nicdali is 5'3 26 year old fighter from Tulsa, Oklahoma. She trains with Underdawgs Fight Team.

She is dropping down to 105-pounds for the very first time after her most recent unanimous decision loss to Felice Herrig in May of last year.

Before that fight Nicdali had defeated Summer White (0-1) by TKO.

Nicdali's wins have come against Shoni Esquiro (1-2), Shawn Tamarabuchi (1-4), Stephanie Palmer (0-6-0) Jen Babcock (3-2-0), Tammie Schneider (3-11), Sarika Patel (0-1). It could be said that Nicdali has not defeated top competition so far in her career. This will be the biggest fight of her career, in what I feel to be her perfect weight class.

Her losses have come against Sally Krumdiak, Miku Matsumoto, Angela Magana (split-decision) and Patty Lee. By this list you can see that Nicdali has faced very top competition in her career.

Nicdali is known as a stand up fighter with four of her wins coming by TKO.

Amy is a 5'3 37 year old fighter from Idaho fall, Idaho. She trains at and owns Davis Muay Thai.

Amy is coming off of a very impressive TKO victory over Meghan Wright in October of last year.

Before that match Amy was on a two fight losing streak including a very controversial loss in Japan against Misaki Takimoto. The only other loss on her record came against Jessica Penne.

The other win on her record came in her professional MMA debut against Jennifer Berg.

Amy is known as a stand up fighter with both her MMA wins coming by TKO. Not to mention the fact that Amy has over 20 fights as a professional Muay Thai and Kickboxing fighter.


Michele Gutierrez vs. Sarah Maloy



On Saturday, April, 28 at Invicta Fighting Championships 1: "Coenen vs. Ruyssen" at Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Missouri

Michele Gutierrez (3-2-0) will take on Sarah Maloy (2-2-0) in a 125-pound professional MMA match.

Michele is a 5'6 30 year old fighter from las Vegas, Nevada. She trains at Throwdown Gym.

Michele is coming off of a disappointing fight against Amanda LaVoy in which she was winning before a cut over her eye caused by an elbow forced the referee to call an end to their fight resulting in a TKO loss for Michele.

Before that loss Michele had won three fights in a row including victories over Tammie Schneider (TKO), Cassie Rodish and Amy Stacey (TKO)

The only other loss on her record came against Felice Herrig in her professional debut.

Michele is known as a stand up fighter with two of her victories coming by TKO.

Sarah is a 5'5 29 year old fighter from Ada, Oklahoma. She trains at and owns Body Tech MMA Fitness.

Sarah has also had very disappointing experiences in her last two contracted matches. She was scheduled to face amongst all people Amanda LaVoy late last year but because of communication issues between the fighters and the promotion Amanda pulled out of the fight as Sarah waited for her in the cage. Her other disappointing experience happened  before that in a title fight vs. Katie Merill. On the way to the arena on the day of her fight she fell down some stairs and injured herself causing her to pull out of her fight.

I got to interview these two lovely ladies at G2 summit before they knew they would be fighting. click read more to see the video interviews.

The last time Sarah did actually get a chance to fight in the cage she lost to Sally Krumdiak by armbar. She is currently on a two fight losing streak including a loss to Avery Vilche. Sarah last two losses have come against opponents who have recently dropped to 115-pounds.

before her losing streak Sarah started her professional career with two straight wins against Charlene Smith (rear-naked choke) and Rosa Columbo (armbar)

Sarah is known as a submission specialist with two of her victories coming by submission.

I had a chance to interview these two lovely ladies at G2 summit before they knew they would be fighting each other. To see the video interviews click read more below.



Sunday, April 22, 2012

Meghan Wright vs. Cassie Rodish

 


On Saturday, April, 28 at Invicta Fighting Championships 1: "Coenen vs. Ruyssen" at Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Missouri.

Meghan "The Babe" Wright (1-3-0) will take on Cassie Rodish (1-3-0) in a 105-pound professional MMA match.

Meghan is a 5'4 26 year old fighter from Cincinnati, Ohio. She trains at Round Kick Gym.

She is currently on a two fight losing streak. On October, 1 she was defeated by Amy Davis at 105-pounds. Before that she lost to Angela Magana at 120-pounds. The other loss on her record came against Angelica Chavez in her debut professional fight that she took on only two weeks rest.

Her win came against Stephanie Palmer in March of 2009 by disqualification.

In February of 2009 Meghan fought in her last amateur bout and defeated Katherine nelson by rear-naked choke.

Cassie is 5'1 34 year old fighter from Des Moines, Iowa. She trains at the Round Kick Gym.

She is coming off of the first win of her professional career as she defeated Mariah Johnson on September 23, by TKO in the first round of their 115-pound professional match.

Before that spectacular win Cassie had been on a three fight losing streak to start off her career including losses to Margarita Chavez by split decision at 115-pounds, Michele Gutierrez at 120-pounds and Katie Klinefelter at 135-pounds.

This will be her debut at 105-pounds.