Invicta FC 3: Penne vs. Sugiyama – Weigh-In Results and Photos
All 14 bouts, including the atomweight (105 pounds) main event and first-ever Invicta Fighting Championships world title bout between Jessica Penne (9-1) of Laguna Hills, Calif. and undefeated Naho “Sugi Rock” Sugiyama (8-0) of Kyoto, Japan, were made official today for the Invicta FC 3: Penne vs. Sugiyama women’s Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) event tomorrow/Saturday, Oct. 6 at Memorial Hall in Kansas City, live on InvictaFC.com.
The ferocious, 29-year-old Penne weighed in at 104.5 pounds while Sugiyama, a 34-year-old champion of Japanese women’s MMA promotion JEWELS, weighed in at 103.5 pounds.
Women’s MMA pioneer Tara LaRosa (21-2) of Woodstown, N.J. weighed in at 127.5 pounds, 1.5 pounds above the cutoff weight for her flyweight (125 pounds) matchup with Sao Paulo, Brazil’s Vanessa Porto (14-5), who weighed in at 125 pounds. Porto gained weight and re-weighed in at 127 pounds.
Tickets for the highly-anticipated Invicta FC 3: Penne vs. Sugiyama event, priced from $25, are available for purchase at Memorial Hall box office (913) 549-4853), online at Ticketmaster.com and InvictaFC.com and by phone at (800) 745-3000.
The live, free-of-charge stream of the entire event on InvictaFC.com will begin at 7 p.m. EST/4 p.m. PST with the six-bout preliminary card and continue with the eight-bout main card. Veteran MMA voice Mauro Ranallo will call the action alongside MMA superstars “King Mo” Lawal and Julie “Fireball” Kedzie.
In the co-main event, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu brown belt Shayna “The Queen of Spades” Baszler (14-7) of Sioux Falls, S.D. will return to action at bantamweight (135 pounds) and take on Invicta FC 2 winner Sarah “The Monster” D’Alelio (6-2) of San Jose, Calif.
Undefeated sensation Cat “Alpha” Zingano (6-0) of Denver, Colo. will throw down with Invicta FC 2 winner Raquel “Rocky” Pennington (3-1) of Colorado Springs, Colo. at bantamweight.
Prolific strikers Kaitlin Young (7-6-1) of St. Louis Park, Minn. and Leslie “The Peacemaker” Smith (3-2-1) of Pleasant Hill, Calif. will face off in a highly-anticipated bantamweight rematch to their April 28 slugfest at the inaugural Invicta FC event that ended in a majority draw.
Another Invicta FC 2 victor, Barb “Little Warrior” Honchak (6-2) of Bettendorf, Iowa, will collide with rising star and furious finisher Aisling “Ais The Bash” Daly (13-3) of Dublin, Ireland in a flyweight (125 pounds) contest.
Michelle “The Karate Hottie” Waterson (9-3) of Albuquerque, N.M. will also make her first start under the Invicta FC banner against Lacey “The Ladie” Schuckman (7-5) of Lakewood, Colo. in an atomweight scrap.
Road warrior Danielle “The Honey Badger” West (4-3-1) of London, UK will meet hard-hitting Julia “The Jewel” Budd (3-2) of Port Moody, CA at featherweight (145 pounds) in the first main card bout.
Photo Credits: Esther Lin and Julie Kedzie for Invicta Fighting Championships:
Jessica Penne vs. Naho Sugiyama
Shayna Baszler vs. Sarah D'Alelio
Kaitlin Young vs. Leslie Smith
Barb Honchak vs. Aisling Daley
Tara LaRosa vs. Vanessa Porto
Cat Zingano vs. Raquel Pennington
Michelle Waterson vs. Lacy Schuckman
Danielle West vs. Julia Budd
Carla Esparza vs. Lynn Alvarez
Tecia Torres vs. Kaiyana Rain
Ashley Cummins vs. Joanne Calderwood
Ediane Gomes vs. Katalina Malungahun
Marciea Allen vs. Jessayn Duke
Kaitlin Young, Shayna Baszler and Tara Larosa
"The Karate Hottie" cutting weight