Gladiator Vs. Cyborg

There are more and more up and coming females fights in the world of MMA, there is just one major problem there is very little coverage for women. But i have a Feeling all that is going to change. Tonight August 15, Showtime will air Gina Carano Vs. Christina "Cyborg" Santos the main bout. This fight has the Ali-Frazier type of hype, it has been a long time coming. That is what makes Gina so special, she understands all this. There is no one more important to there sport thin Carano. The NFL made it last season with out Tom Brady, Barry Bonds has not played a game since 2007 but yet tickets still get sold, Tiger didn't play a single hole of golf for nine months but all tour events still got broad casted. If Carano quit today she would take women MMA down with her. She is the first women to appear on both premium cable and network television and now the headliner of a main event fight card. But don get it twisted the former American Gladiator and Maxim cover girl will but her 7-0 record to the test, her toughest test. Santos is a match made nightmare for Carano who like to avoid take downs and pick her opponent apart wit her stand up game. but see that's just it Santos has concrete for hands. Often compared to fellow Brazilian Wanderlei Silva, the 24 year old former handball player who also hails from the same Chute Boxe Gym Silva made famous, wants her deserved respect in the women MMA world. Gina does have a few tricks up her sleeve though one trick being wrestler turned UFC vet Randy Couture. The breakthrough women MMA star has been training with Couture day in and day out. A main focus is her conditioning, now that the round setup has been changed from the previous five, three minute rounds to five, five minute rounds, because of the large out cry from Jujitsu fighters who feel that the shorter rounds do not allow them to work there game plan, giving strikers the advantage. But two things are very clear, one this fight i the life's blood of women MMA and two when that day comes and Gina has to hang hr gloves up she will have left it in a much better spotlight then when she arrived!