Erin Toughill's triumphant return to MMA

The Nov. 20 Pacific Fighting Championship show was streamed live on Sherdog. There were two women's matches on the show. The most interesting of the two featured veteran fighter Erin Toughill. I watched the match live but it took a couple of days to find the match in one piece. The video is over 20 minutes long so then I had to find a place to upload it. Thank you Viddler. Erin Toughill's last MMA fight was in 2006. In addition to MMA, she has had a boxing career and was on the second season of American Gladiators. On this occasion, Erin fought at 150lbs and that's the lightest weight I've ever seen her fight. I guess the thinking was it would be easier to find an opponent. But they had trouble until Jan Finney stepped up. Erin looked to be in great shape. Jan came to the fight with very good strategy. Erin has a significant reach advantage so Jan didn't want to trade shots with her. So she got Erin in the clinch to neutralize that. I thought Erin won round one. Jan was poked in the eye at the start of round two and I think that unnerved Erin and she messed up on an ensuing takedown attempt and Jan was on top of her. But Jan was unable to take advantage of the situation. Then in round three, Jan seemed to run out of gas and Erin was able to do enough to get a unanimous decision. After the match, Erin was clearly unhappy with her performance. I thought she did pretty well considering that she had some ring rust. She says her next fight for PFC will be in March. Because of her size, Erin is always going to be tough to match up. Certainly Lana Stefanac would be very interesting. One fighter Erin should look at is the Japanese fighter HIROKO who is about six feet tall and weighs 175lbs. She won her fight in last week's JEWELS show and her only loss to date was to Hitomi Akano. But it's great to see Erin Toughill back in MMA. She is always very entertaining. Enjoy the video!