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Velasquez is not the only former Sun Devil wrestler that has found success in the world of MMA and joins a trio of Sun Devils that held belts during their careers.

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He also won his eighth professional fight by knock-out, his third in a row in the UFC and captured his fourth first-round win during his time in the UFC. Velasquez has now won seven-consecutive fights in the UFC, which is the longest active streak in the promotion’s history. The win not only kept Velasquez undefeated at 9-0 in his young mixed martial arts career, but it also proved that he is a force to be reckoned with in the UFC.ĭespite entering the Octagon 20 pounds lighter than his opponent, who was an All-American heavyweight at Minnesota, Velasquez weathered an early storm from Lesnar before taking the fight to the former champion and unleashing a barrage of punches to eventually force a referee stoppage at 4:01 into the first round. Velasquez, a two-time All-American with the Arizona State University wrestling program, became the new face of the ever-expanding world of mixed martial arts as he completed his climb to the top of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) heavyweight division when he scored a first-round technical knock out of former champion Brock Lesnar at UFC 121 in Anaheim, Calif., to become the UFC World Heavyweight Champion. I have an incredible team.On Saturday night, October 23, Cain'>'>. “Outside of myself, I have always been blessed to have good people around me throughout my martial arts career. 'Hard work pays off' is my motto,” she says.

Persistence, commitment, and determination. “I have a drive inside of me that constantly helps to push myself when it comes to reaching my goals. Kinesiology is the scientific study of body movement and addresses physiological, biomechanical, and psychological mechanisms. Van Soest has a bachelor's degree in kinesiology from California State University San Marcos. She says her aims are to secure and maintain the GLORY championship and to win an INVICTA title and eventually progress to the UFC and become a champion there. In pursuit of that goal, she recently signed a joint deal with GLORY and INVICTA which will see her compete in kickboxing for the former and MMA for the latter. Previously she had resisted calls to take part in MMA, being a striking purist, but she then determined that she wanted to see what she was capable of while she was in her prime. On leaving Lion Fight, she spent 2015 on hiatus and in the course of that, made the decision to become a dual-sport athlete competing in MMA and kickboxing. She lost the belt by way of a close (some would say controversial) split decision in February 2014.

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She subsequently went 7-1 in the organization under full Muay Thai rules (elbows allowed, clinch allowed), including a stint as featherweight champion. In October 2012 she took the WBC Muaythai Women's International Super Bantamweight title from the previously undefeated Jeri Sitzes at Lion Fight 7 in Las Vegas.

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She began fighting in amateur Muay Thai in 2009 and turned professional in 2011, winning her pro debut by TKO when her opponent retired after the second round with a broken hand. She started to do Muay Thai again while still in college, where she also continued playing soccer. Van Soest attend California State University San Marcos where she earned a bachelor's degree in kinesiology and played on the soccer team for two seasons. I proved to myself that I am capable of being the best in the world.”

“I was so young, only 18 years old, and it was such a big accomplishment because I had to compete against women with much more experience. When I won the USKA world championship for the first time as an adult (18 yrs old and over), It was the greatest feeling in the world at the time,” she recalls. “I competed in many karate competitions while growing up. When she did start competitive karate, she took multiple titles at state, national and world levels. She earned the rank of second-degree black belt at seventeen but was unable to compete until she was eighteen because her parents wouldn't let her. The first sport she became involved in was soccer at the age of five and later Shōrin-ryū karate at eight. “Timebomb” Tiffany van Soest was born in Torrance, California and raised in Riverside, California. WBC Muaythai International Super Bantamweight Champion