How Chute Boxe created Brazil UFC legends

Everybody loved Gina Carano. And with good reason. She was the girl next door, blessed with looks and left hooks, and she was the one who basically introduced women’s MMA to the mainstream in the years before Ronda Rousey came along.August 15, 2009 was going to be the official coronation of the queen, a Showtime-televised main event against a once-beaten Brazilian named Cristiane Justino. To fight fans, she was “Cyborg.” To my wife, she was just another opponent to be beaten by