Germaine de Randamie News

bjpenndotcom - February 14, 2017

While this past weekend’s Holm vs. De Randamie main event was a good one, it was the UFC 208 late strikes that had fight fans talking. This past weekend at UFC 208, Germaine de Randamie and Holly Holm stepped into the Octagon for a highly anticipated scrap for the inaugural UFC women’s featherweight championship. The fight was an extremely competitive one, that ultimately saw De Randamie capture the inaugural title, defeating Holm via unanimous decision to claim the women’s featherweight title. With that being said, the fight was quite controversial, with Germaine De Randamie tagging Holm with big punches moments after the bell rang on two separate occasions. While many believe De Randamie should have lost points for the incidents, referees ‘Big’ John McCarthy and Marc Goddard both took to social media to explain why De Randamie didn’t lose points for the incidents:

Tom Taylor - February 13, 2017

Last weekend, in the main event of UFC 208, Germaine de Randamie scored a controversial decision win over former bantamweight champ Holly Holm to become the UFC’s first ever women’s featherweight champion. De Randamie’s history-making win, however, had a massive shadow cast over it by one woman: Cristiane “Cyborg” Justino. Cyborg, who has not lost since her pro debut more than a decade ago, is far and away the best female featherweight on earth. Regrettably, several brutal cuts to 140 pounds and a December brush with the United States Anti-Doping Agency meant that she wasn’t able to participate in the UFC’s inaugural women’s featherweight title fight. Despite her absence from this historic bout, however, she is still widely regarded as the uncrowned featherweight queen.

Tom Taylor - February 12, 2017

Last night, the UFC touched down in Brooklyn, New York with UFC 208. In the main event of the evening, the organization crowned it’s first-ever women’s featherweight champion. It did so by pitting Dutch kickboxing specialist Germaine de Randamie against former women’s bantamweight queen Holly Holm. Though De Randamie landed two questionably shots after the bell, and Holm seemed to run away with the fight in the second half, she was ultimately awarded a contentious unanimous decision win by the judges, and became the UFC’s first ever female featherweight champion as a result.

Tom Taylor - February 12, 2017

Last night, the UFC made its first stop in Brooklyn, New York with UFC 208. The card was headlined by a bit of history, as the main event crowned the UFC’s first-ever women’s featherweight champion. In corner of this main event, we had former women’s bantamweight champion Holly Holm. In the other, we had Dutch kickboxing import Germaine De Randamie. Though it was not a particularly riveting fight, this one ultimately went to De Randamie. Given the fact that Holm seemed to steal the second half of the fight, and that De Randamie landed two blatant shots after the bell, however, this outcome generated immediate controversy among MMA fans. Holm and De Randamie’s fellow fighters, of course, also had plenty to say about this iffy outcome.

bjpenndotcom - February 9, 2017

Ahead of her UFC 208 inaugural women’s featherweight tile fight, Germaine de Randamie has defended her combative sports resume, explaining how while she may still be relatively fresh in MMA, she has a very extensive professional kickboxing record that saw her go undefeated. In addition, de Randamie explained that she had even knocked out a male opponent who outweighed her by 40 pounds, pointing out that she isn’t too concerned with fighting women at 145 pounds:

bjpenndotcom - February 9, 2017

This Saturday in the main event of UFC 208, Germaine de Randamie will step into the Octagon to fight former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Holly Holm in a highly anticipated showdown for the inaugural women’s featherweight championship. While fight fans are certainly familiar with Holm due to her famous knockout win over Ronda Rousey at UFC 193, Randamie is still relatively young in the sport, with only 9 professional MMA fights. With that being said however, Randamie had a 37-0 professional kickboxing record before making the transition to MMA, making her an extremely experienced fighter.

bjpenndotcom - February 8, 2017

This Saturday, in the main event of Brooklyn’s UFC 208 fight card, Holly Holm and Germaine De Randamie will fight for the inaugural UFC women’s UFC featherweight title in a highly anticipated showdown. Ahead of the fight, there has been talk of where Invicta FC women’s featherweight champion Cris Cyborg, who is also 2-0 in the Octagon in catchweight fights, fits into the title picture given her current case with USADA for a potential anti-doping violation. Prior to that however, Cyborg had been offered two women’s featherweight title fights however she turned both down after explaining that she would be unable to make weight so close to when her last fight was.

Tom Taylor - February 6, 2017

https://youtu.be/1qMGmi3wLTU This Saturday, the UFC will touch down in beautiful Brooklyn, New York with UFC 208. Though this is far from the most stacked pay-per-view the UFC has ever constructed, it is an undeniably historic one, as it will be headlined by the UFC’s first ever women’s featherweight title fight. This inaugural title fight will pit former women’s bantamweight queen Holly Holm against Dutch kickboxing veteran Germaine de Randamie.