Cristiane Santos defends featherweight title against Hiroko Yamanaka at Strikeforce – MMA News
Japanese women’s mixed martial art (MMA) Hiroko Yamanaka will be facing Brazilian MMA women’s fighter and current women’s featherweight champion Cristiane Justino Venancio Santos on December 17, 2011. Their bout is set to take place at the Strikeforce event.
The Women's Featherweight Championship bout will feature the 26-year-old Santos defend her featherweight title against Yamanaka. The Japanese MMA fighter, 22-year-old Yamanaka will be making her Strikeforce debut when she meets Santos inside the cage for the
title. Santos is termed as the better opponent for she is undefeated in Strikeforce. Ever since she made her successful debut in Strikeforce in April 2009 against Hitomi Akano, she has not looked back not reduced her momentum.
She defeated Gina Carano at Strikeforce event in August 2009, Marloes Coenen in January 2010 and Jan Finney in June 2010. She will be entering the Strikeforce fight ring against Yamanaka with a winning streak of ten fights. Santos could not win the debut
MMA fight she had in May 2005 but she has not lost a single bout from her second match of her career.
This would prove to be a huge intimidating factor for Yamanaka for she is a newcomer in the Strikeforce. For Yamanaka, the only factor which would give her some motivation would be her MMA win/loss ratio. She has won twelve fights in MMA and lost a single
bout. Santos would ignore these statistics for she will only focus on winning the bout and will not give any room to Yamanaka in scoring an upset win.
Yamanaka will be facing Santos with an eight fight winning streak under her belt. For the Japanese MMA fighter, this will also be the first time when she would be taking part in a championship fight. Yamanaka began her successful professional MMA career in
November 2006 when she faced compatriot Rie Murakami. Yamanaka had a four fight winning streak but she faced a loss by the hands of compatriot Hitomi Akano in April 2008.
Just like Santos, Yamanaka has also lost a single fight in their MMA careers. Strikeforce fans would be eager to watch this fight as Santos is in great physical form over the years. She will make sure that she walks out of Strikeforce event on December 17,
2011 as the women’s featherweight champion.
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