So you probably already know that Strikeforce women's champ Cristiane Cyborg Santos will be on Strikeforce's Nov. 7 show from the Sears Center in Chicago on CBS. We're just waiting for her opponent to be announced. I can now report that Matloes Coenen (pictured) of The Netherlands is the opponent. She let the cat out of the bag in an interview with Middle Easy. Marloes trains at Golden Glory and is a very young ten year veteran of MMA. At 19 years of age, Marloes fought in the very first women's MMA show in Japan for LLPW on Nov. 22, 2000 with a win over Yuuki Kondo. She also won the very first World Remix Tournament on Dec. 5, 2000 with a win over Megumi Yabushita. So that makes Marloes a pioneer of women's MMA and a legend in Japan. In recent years, Marloes has had difficulty getting fights on a regular basis because kickboxing is far more popular than MMA in The Netherlands. Her record is 16-3 and her last fright was a loss to Cindy Dandois on the Jan. 24 Beast Of The East show in Zutphen, Holland. Having seen that fight on Youtube, I'll just say that Cindy employed a specific strategy that worked very well against Marloes. Check it out for yourself. I expect we may see Cindy fight in North America real soon. You may recall that Marloes was supposed to fight Cyborg last February in Montreal but it was cancelled when Cyborg signed with Strikeforce. So this fight should be very interesting.
Looking very much forward to it, but gotta go with Cris, who's presently, far and away, my favorite fighter!
ReplyDeleteOh dear... On that evidence, Marloes is going to get murdered against Cyborg! I'd be surprised if it got past the first round!
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