Currently Reading: Female Fighters

  Above are highlights from the Girls S-Cup in Japan, August 25th of this year. These girls fight relatively close to my weight class and I’ve had my eye on Erika Kamimura after her knock out...

I saw this posted on her Facebook page of Chantal Ughi (World Champion Muay Thai fighter living and fighting in Bangkok). There are 3 types of Thai trainers in Thailand: 1. the ones who only make...

There aren’t a great number of professional female Muay Thai fighters in the west and fewer still in the USA.  I came across Roxy “Balboa” Richardson just as she was preparing for her retirement fight this...

A few years back I was making a film about Natalie Fuz’s final Muay Thai fight before her retirement in December of 2009.  I got a media pass to film at Friday Night Fights at the...

Either Side of the Ropes Something happens when a woman steps into the ring.  It’s not universal and I cannot speak for everybody,  but I’ve both witnessed this phenomenon on many occasions in other women and...

Prior to the March 3rd Strikeforce event, I didn’t know much about Ronda Rousey.  I knew she was young, adroit at shit-talking and had a pension for arm bars.  Miesha Tate was a clearer story –...