#1 Gabi Garcia vs every single past opponent
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It’s a bird...no, a dragon...She-Hulk, anyone? Not really. It’s MMA’s freak of the season- Gabi Garcia.
Standing at an imposing 6’2” and weighing in at 245 pounds of lean muscle, Garcia is a multiple time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) world champion. She is also one of RIZIN Fighting Federation’s biggest attractions.
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And although RIZIN FF is a newly formed organisation, all of you MMA hardcore fans out there would probably know that the Boss-man for the Japanese promotion is Nobuyuki Sakakibara, former Pride FC head honcho and alleged Yakuza-ally.
Now mind you, in no way do I mean to disrespect Ms Gabi or discredit her BJJ accomplishments, but facts are facts. And although it is, in fact, a bit difficult, to find female opponents that can match Garcia’s size and strength; Garcia and her team have avoided legitimate competition in spite of her obvious physical and athletic superiority.
She has striking that’ll make Ronda Rousey look like Muhammad Ali and Edmond Tarverdyan look like Emmanuel Steward. In all four fights, Gabi rushed at her opponent in a straight line, flailing her arms around, throwing windmill strikes with horrendous technique.
All fights featured the gigantic Brazilian towering over her outmatched opponents, who, along with being severely undersized, also had negligible combat experience.
She fought Lei’D Tapa in her debut fight (yes, the TNA pro-wrestler and valet), finishing her via TKO, in a terrible fight where neither woman knew how to strike. Garcia submitted her next two opponents after which came the big one. It was announced that she would face 52-year-old Japanese pro-wrestler, Shinobu Kandori, at RIZIN 4 on December 31st, 2016.
In the lead-up to the fight, Kandori pulled out owing to injury and her replacement was no better- then 49-year-old pro-wrestler, Yumiko Hotta.
Garcia-Hotta started off with the Japanese granny doing her ‘slingshot off the ropes’ pro-wrestling routine. Hotta kept showboating and when she tried to do the same for the third consecutive time inside the RIZIN ring, Garcia grabbed her by the hair and just threw her around as though Hotta were a ragdoll.
She then caught Hotta against the ropes with a flurry of flailing, wide hooks; dropping her and finishing the fight via ground-and-pound. The fight was followed by a strange sequence where one of Hotta’s corner-men, a man so to speak, apparently challenged Gabi to a fight.
If that fight ever comes to fruition, the smart money would be on Gabi beating said dude via ‘Whatever the hell she wants’.
And as if that wasn’t enough, German pro-wrestler, Jazzy ‘Alpha Female’ Gabert confronted Garcia inside the ring, challenging her to a fight. A brawl nearly broke out inside the RIZIN ring, before Gabi’s close friend and ex-Strikeforce and current Invicta FC Featherweight champion, Cris Cyborg many others got involved, stopping the already chaotic situation from getting further out of hand.
Give it time folks. You’ll eventually fall in love with the freaky side of MMA, and that more often than not includes JMMA. Keep up with our combat tradition and write in to me about freaky fights that you feel could’ve made the list.
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