Considering the sexy, Strikeforce photo shoot that both Miesha Tate and Ronda Rousey just completed, good looks and trim figures are as important as social media presence—if you want to be featured as the main event on Showtime. If the photo session of Ronda all dolled up and lounging on the couch looking sultry is any indication, Strikeforce is adjusting how they're marketing women's MMA.
Ronda tweeted an image of herself being photographed. Strikeforce included two images of Ronda's session on their fan page. Fans are showing their appreciation with "likes" approaching 1,000 as of this writing.
There's one photo of Miesha with the championship belt and another getting her hair and makeup done. As of this writing, the number of likes are over 500, but the image of Miesha with the belt isn't a fair comparison with Ronda's pose in her little black dress.
Miesha tweeted a photo of her session. Her new Twitter profile photo is an eye-catcher too.
Dana White's Involvement
UFC president, Dana White is bringing his experience and ideas to Strikeforce. In an MMAJunkie post, Strikeforce CEO, Scott Coker said, "Anytime a guy like Dana wants to become involved, with his marketing machine behind him, I think it's going to be a great thing."
Different times, different landscape. "Well, Cyborg is Cyborg, she's got an appropriate name," Scott said in an SBNation interview with Luke Thomas. "The Cyborg I know is always picking up her husband after her fight, with a congratulatory salute to the crowd, with her husband up on her shoulders. She's a beast as a girl."
That gives me a promotional photo idea for when Cyborg returns: Cyborg lifting up the (heavy) end of the couch where Ronda is lounging. To avoid sliding, Ronda would have to hang onto the arm of the couch. Just a thought.
Most Anticipated Female Fight in 3 Years
SBNation 's Luke Thomas reported that Scott Coker said, "These girls are very attractive girls, but the one thing about both of them is, these girls are dangerous. They're both very explosive. They're great fighters. They're great mixed martial arts fighters…it's the first time since the Cyborg-Carano fight since we've had a fight of this magnitude. I think it's the most highly anticipated female fight in the last three years in female mixed martial arts."
Scott continued, "Ronda, she might have talked her way into this fight—which is great for female mixed martial arts—I still think that this girl, with her Olympic experience and the amount of mat time she's had with judo and professional competition, definitely deserves a shot. I think Miesha will have her hands full."
Bad Ronda
Eric Estrada tweeted, "Hey Ronda, Miesha called you out for being nervous and scared at the photo shoot today. Got any response to that?"
Of course, she does. Ronda's tweeted response, "yeah, her attempts at trash talking are as lame as her fights."
Bad Miesha
Michael Fenton tweeted Miesha a question, "Hey Miesha, do you believe Ronda's story about beating up 4 guys? Sounds a little far fetched to me."
Miesha's reply: "I haven't heard it, but no, she talks out her a$$ all the time I don't believe anything she says."
Forrest Redd tweeted, "I like Ronda Rousey, but I cannot support someone who believes people like GSP are bad for the sport. Goodluck @MieshaTate you got this!"
Miesha tweeted back, "Thank you, she couldn't dig herself a hole any faster if she had a backhoe."
On the 25th of January: "I figured out y Ronda talks so much smack, it's 2 hide her insecurities she was so nervous 2day I had 2 laugh I can see right through the bs."
Superfights or Divisions?
I'm beginning to wonder, at this point in time, would super fights work better than divisions for women's MMA? Why not match up the best two female fighters in different weight classes and schedule those fights instead of waiting for enough of them to get good enough to have depth in one division ("depth" as perceived by Dana White).
What do you think?
Source: Twitter, Facebook, all other sources noted
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