DFW thawing on future of women’s MMA
It wasn’t long ago that the UFC president Dana White proclaimed women would never fight in his organization, but White…
It wasn’t long ago that the UFC president Dana White proclaimed women would never fight in his organization, but White has backed off those comments recently.
Here’s my thing with girls fighting. Right now the place that it’s in is much like female boxing at one time. You probably have three or four girls that are really good and a lot of girls that aren’t, so it makes for some real bad mismatches. But I think as the sport continues to grow around the world and more and more kids start getting involved in mixed martial arts I think that’s going to change.
Zuffa, parent company to the UFC and WEC, kicked around the thought of having females in the WEC at one point. There was a time when the UFC was looking into going back to Japan and considered having a women’s bout on the card.
I went to this fight one time in Northern California. It was a small show and these two girls were fighting on the card. One girl fought just like Randy Couture and looked just like Randy Couture. And this other girl was beautiful and looked like she took about four Tae Bo classes. It was one of the worst fights I’ve seen in my life and you can imagine what the outcome was. And it really left a bad taste in my mouth.
“But that was a while ago. This sport has grown so much and there’s so many more girls training. I’m sure they’re going to change women’s MMA over the next five or six years.