Invicta FC 6: Cyborg vs Coenen - Weigh-In Results
All nine main card bouts, including the highly-anticipated rematch and world featherweight (145 pounds) championship fight between rival superstars Cris Cyborg (11-1, 1 NC) of Curitiba, Brazil and Marloes Coenen (21-5) of Amsterdam, The Netherlands were made official today for the Invicta Fighting Championships women’s Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) event tomorrow, Saturday, July 13 at Ameristar Casino Hotel Kansas City, live on pay-per-view.
Cyborg weighed in at 144.9 pounds and Coenen weighed in at 145 pounds for their main event showdown that will mark the first-ever Invicta FC featherweight title bout.
Two preliminary card bouts were scratched from the card after Veronica Rothenhausler (1-0) of Sacramento, Calif. was declared medically unable to compete against scheduled featherweight opponent Mollie Estes (1-2) of Oceola, Miss. and Livia von Plettenberg (1-1) of Vienna, Wien Austria weighed in at 113 pounds, 7 pounds over the maximum allowed weight for her scheduled atomweight (105 pounds) matchup with Cassie Robb (0-1) of Casper, Wyo.
The catch weight for the preliminary card meeting between Ediane “India” Gomes (10-2) of Sao Paulo, Brazil and undefeated Tamikka Brents (2-0) of Illinois was increased from 150 pounds to 155 pounds after Brents, who accepted the fight as a replacement for Charmaine Tweet earlier this week, weighed in at 155.5 pounds. Gomes weighed in at 149 pounds. All other fighters on the 11-bout card made weight.
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In the co-main event, a pair of undefeated strawweight (115 pounds) stars in Ayaka Hamasaki (9-0) of Tokyo, Japan and Claudia Gadelha (9-0) of Mossoro, Rio Grande Do Norte Brazil will put their perfect records on the line against each other. In other action on the main card, three-time Invicta FC fight winner Sarah D’Alelio (7-3) of San Jose, Calif. will take on undefeated upstart Lauren Taylor (6-0) of Anchorage, Alaska at bantamweight (135 pounds). After her second Invicta FC “Fight of the Night” performance, prolific striker Leslie “The Peacemaker” Smith (5-3-1) of Pleasant Hill, Calif. will drop from bantamweight to flyweight (125 pounds) and face off with Jennifer Maia (7-2) of Curitiba, Parana Brazil.
Former Invicta FC world atomweight champion Jessica Penne (10-2) of Huntington Beach, Calif. will square off with battle-tested road warrior Nicdali “The Night Queen” Rivera-Calanoc (8-6) of Tulsa, Okla. Norma Center (2-0) of Albuquerque, N.M. will collide with fellow undefeated rising star Joanne Calderwood (6-0) of Glasgow, Scotland at strawweight. Crowd-pleasing finisher “Rowdy” Bec Hyatt (5-2) of Brisbane, Queensland Australia will look to notch her second straight victory under the Invicta FC banner in a strawweight showdown with JEWELS star Mizuki Inoue (5-1) of Nagoya, Aichi Japan.
Hard-hitting Muay Thai stylist Miriam Nakamoto (1-0) of Dublin, Calif. will square off with Duda “Diamond” Yankovich (1-1) of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil in a bantamweight bout. Unbeaten upstarts Rose Namajunas (2-0) of St. Paul, Minn. and Tecia “The Tiny Tornado” Torres (2-0) of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. will face off at strawweight. Ashley “Smashley” Cummins (3-1) of St. Louis, Miss. will meet Emily Kagan (2-1) of Albuquerque, N.M. in a strawweight preliminary card bout. Doors at Star Pavilion at Ameristar Casino Hotel Kansas City open for Invicta FC 6 open at 5 p.m. CT and the first preliminary bout begins at 6 p.m.
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Undefeated upstarts Rose Namajunas (left) and Tecia Torres (right) both made weight today, one day before the highly-anticipated Invicta Fighting Championships women’s MMA world championship event at Ameristar Casino Hotel Kansas City, live on pay-per-view.
Miriam Nakamoto (left) faces off with Duda Yankovich (right) after the two weighed in for their bantamweight matchup.
“Rowdy” Bec Hyatt (left) will collide with Mizuki Inoue in a strawweight tilt.
Joanne Calderwood (left) weighed in at 115.7 pounds for her strawweight matchup with fellow unbeaten rising star Norma Center (right), who tipped the scale at 115.8 pounds.
Former Invicta FC atomweight champ Jessica Penne (left) and Nicdali Rivera-Calanoc (right) clowned around for the cameras after weighing for their 105 pound limit matchup.
Two-time “Fight of the Night” winner Leslie Smith (left) weighed in at 125.1 pounds while her flyweight opponent Jennifer Maia (right) weighed in at 124.6 pounds.
Submission specialist Sarah D’Alelio (left) will look to hand undefeated Lauren Taylor (right) her first defeat in a bantamweight scrap.
In a co-main event matchup between two undefeated superstars with identical (9-0) records, Ayaka Hamasaki (left) faces Claudia Gadelha (right).
Marloes Coenen (left) faces off with longtime rival and fellow superstar Cris Cyborg (right) after the two weighed in for their much-anticipated main event rematch and the first-ever Invicta FC featherweight title fight.
Coenen, a submission expert and product of famed Holland-based fight camp Golden Glory, will make her second start for Invicta FC.
Cyborg is coming off a brutal first round TKO victory over Fiona Muxlow at Invicta FC 5 in April.
(From left to right) Phoenix Girls Gianna Puppo, Shannon Ihrke and Natasha Wicks show off the Invicta FC featherweight championship belt that will be at stake in tomorrow’s main event.
