The 411 MMA Top 5 12.13.10: Week 60 – Hottest MMA Chicks

Posted by Larry Csonka on 12.13.2010

From Arianny Celeste, Gina Carano and Miesha Tate to Michelle Waterson, Logan Stanton and Kyra Gracie, the 411 MMA writers look at some of the hottest chicks in the world of MMA! Check out the full article to see which moments made the list and why!



Welcome:
Welcome back to the MMA Top 5! What we are going to is take a topic each week and all the writers here on 411 MMA will have the ability to give us their Top 5 on said topic, plus up to three honorable mentions. It's highly non-official and final, like WAMMA.


And now…



THE HOTTEST MMA CHICKS!


Jeffrey Harris
HM: Miesha Tate - She is smoking hot and a hell of a good fighter to boot. Tate despite a loss to Sarah Kaufman, bounced right back and built up an impressive win streak in Strikeforce's 135 pound division. Tate is not only gorgeous, is extremely nice and approachable in person. She's worked really hard to get where she is and it is great to see such a person finally getting accolades as a result.

HM: Zoila Frausto - In 2010 this women came out of nowhere and ultimately became a champion. She lost her big mainstream debut in Strikeforce to Miesha Tate. But she came right back and went to Bellator. She dropped down and then ran the table of the 115 pound women's tournament, culminating in the finals with a win over undefeated 22-0 Megumi Fujii. Frausto went from being an unknown to a champion and a superstar virtually overnight. She doesn't look bad in a bikini either, .

5. Rachelle Leah - Leah goes here for being one of the first UFC ring girls to have tons of mainstream and crossover success. Leah besides being a gorgeous ring girl, also hosted many awesome UFC training specials for big fights on Spike TV. She also ended up posing for Playboy. She is big time.

4. Megumi Fujii - Fujii began her career with a 22-0 winstreak which is extremely rare in all of MMA as a whole. It eventually ended at Bellator 34, but Fujii's run was extremely impressive. The US MMA scene and Bellator benefited a great deal by being able to showcase such a talented, beautiful, and experienced fighter in a tournament on national television. I think because of fighters like Fujii, women's MMA will be more than just a novelty act and continue to grow.

3. Cyborg - Cyborg is an absolute monster in the sport. I don't see anyone beating her for the foreseeable future. Cyborg brings a vicious technique unlike any other in the female fighting arena. When she came on to the scene, she became the opponent that people wanted to see Carano fight the most. And she made it look easy in destroying the face of women's MMA.

2. Arianny Celeste - Celeste's curvy, toned, and athletic body is absolutely, gorgeously deadly. She's hot, she has a great sense of humor, and she did the world a tremendous favor we did not deserve by appearing nude in Playboy. Whine about airbrushing all you want, this was the greatest Playboy spread in the history of history!



1. Gina Carano - I'm putting Gina Carano here because she basically pioneered female MMA. Gina Carano was really the first true female MMA fighter that became a superstar. She failed to win the title, but her crossover success has been mind-boggling. She's now doing movies, but she's also appeared in MAXIM and even ESPN Magazine. Carano proved that a female MMA fighter can become a superstar and a draw and that people would tune in to see women's MMA. She paved the way unlike any other and she deserves credit for that.

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Jonathan Solomon
HM: Miesha Tata - I could watch her roll around the mat for a long time. Yep!


5. The Lovely Arianny - She'll be all over these lists and rightfully so. Go e-mail AJ Grey for pics of the Playboy variety, but she has become THE ring girl for the UFC and she does make the outfit work. Her Twitter is usually full of fun tidbits and pics so there's another point.



4. Gina Carano - Despite being the first major female star in MMA, she's this low on my list because I'm guessing we never see her fight again. Unfortunately for fight fans, she has a career in Hollywood where she does not have to get punched in the face (that's always a plus). She was involved in the first female fight in network television history and the first female main event in major American MMA history. Now instead of seeing her slaughtered by Cyborg, we'll be able to watch her on the big screen in 2011 in Steven Soderbergh's Haywire with co-stars Ewan McGregor, Channing Tatum, Michael Douglas, Antonio Banderas and Bill Paxton.

3. Eiko Koike - You may not recognize her by name, but she is the famous lovely Japanese model/MMA fan who shed tears when Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira was slaughtered by Fedor Emelianenko in PRIDE. As you see below, she is experiencing happier times these days since marrying pro wrestler Wataru Sakata. What a lucky, lucky, lucky......lucky, lucky, lucky man.



2. Michelle Waterson - The Karate Hottie may be busy beating on bullies but she is still the hottest MMA fighter...by far. The lucky lady announced her pregnancy a few months ago so it sounds like she'll be taking a break from the fight game. Hopefully for our sake, it's not a permanent one.




DAYUM!

1. Logan Stanton - BRING HER BACK! The UFC released Logan Stanton and Natasha Wicks from their octagon girl duties about a year ago this month. The MMA world continues to reel from the sudden departure of Ms. Stanton. Internet lore says the decision came after an interview Stanton gave in which she accused Josh Koscheck of faking the impact of a knee from Anthony Johnson at UFC 106. Stanton did not believe the interview had a role in the UFC's decision. Enough depression, PICTURE TIME!

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Jon Butterfield

5. Felice Herrig - Despite the rather unflattering nickname "Lil' Bulldog", Felice Herrig is a hot blond kickboxer from Illinois. Still new, she's currently 2-2, but there's always time, and there's always "Hottest Women of MMA" rankings to keep her name (and her face) out there. See? What a service we provide here at 411mania!



4. Ginele Marquez - Ginele holds a less-than-stellar record of 7-7-1 in pro MMA, but that means nothing on this list when the fact is, she's damn good-looking! Does that make me shallow? You decide. I'm just here to determine who's hot.



3. Gina Carano - To be fair, if you haven't heard of Gina Carano, you probably haven't heard of such a thing as female MMA, because the two are pretty much synonymous. Having also appeared on American Gladiators, Carano is a rough and tumble Texan vixen who went 7-0 before running into the rather frightening Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos, and yet still survived to look like this:



2. Michelle Waterson - Do I know a lot about Michelle Waterson? No, not really. Does it matter? Nah. But here's what I do know: Michelle is currently 8-3 in MMA, and she goes by the nickname "Karate Hottie". Not fascinating enough for you? Here's a picture of her looking really pretty, and thus justifying her taking the number two spot in my list. Annnnd, there's also a video of her proving she's not too pretty to fight, either. Enjoy.





1. Arianny Celeste - Honestly, this was easy for me. Hottest MMA chicks, fighters and non-fighters? As soon as I read that, I knew who the number one spot was, even if I wasn't sure about anything else. Arianny is smoking. Don't believe me? Go on. Take a look.



Yeah, you're welcome. Anyway, so, okay, Arianny hasn't really done anything for the mechanics of actual MMA, and she doesn't have the "I could kick your ass" thing down as good as some, but… who cares? She has the cutest face, the greatest body, and… you know what, enough said. Arianny number one!


Steve Gustafson
HM: Pride Girls - They made holding up huge checks sexy and presented a trophy with grace. Plus, Quinton "Rampage" Jackson can attest to their love of partying.

HM: Penny Mathis - This MMA Apparel Model has never been in a fight, but I know more than a few people who have purchased gear that she was advertising.

HM: Gina Carano - WHAT? Gina only gets Honorable Mention status. It's true, my friend. Hot? Sure. But I wanted to give a little shine to some other ladies, no matter how loose their affiliation to MMA is.


5. Christie Cartwright - With WEC being swirled into the UFC family, it's only right to give one of their hottest ring girls some attention. Although she moved on to purse fame and fortune in Hollywood, I'm sure she could make an appearance or two walking around the Octagon.



4. Tiffany Fallon - Will I be insulting anyone if I say that one of the better things about the IFL was Tiffany co-hosting IFL Battleground with MMA legend Bas Rutten?

3. Arianny Celeste - Arianny is truly the Queen of MMA. Making her UFC debut in 2006, she's never turned her back on what made her famous. Although she has appeared in Maxim, FHM, Sports Illustrated, and every MMA magazine out there, she's never left the Octagon for greener pastures. Oh, and don't forget her Playboy pictorial.



2. Adree Desanti - What's there to say about Adree? Really, is there reason for us to have sort of blurb about these ladies since I'm fairly sure the majority of you don't even read them? The real question is how many of you are going to debate the hotness of one MMA chick over another.



1. Kyra Gracie - Yes, we can make the obvious joke of saying, "Imagine going to pick her up for a date and meeting her family?" Unless you're Kazushi Sakuraba's kid, I think you're OK. The real challenge is getting over the intimidation that this lady is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt, trained in judo, wrestling, and boxing. I will admit that talking to "Uncle" Renzo at family gatherings would be a little rough, especially if he heard you called yourself the "Gracie Lover".





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