Inagural UFC women's straw-weight match will be...

Claudia Gadelha vs. Tina Lähdemäki

http://sportv.globo.com/site/combate/noticia/2014/06/claudia-gadelha-inaugura-peso-palha-no-ufc-em-julho-contra-lahdemaki.html

Through Translate:

Claudia Gadelha inaugurates straw-weight in the UFC in July against Lähdemäki. Brazilian fighter is announced against Finnish event in Atlantic City.

The Brazilian Claudia Gadea and Finnish Tina Lähdemäki be the first two fighters straw-weight category (up to 52.2 kg) to debut in the UFC. The two agreed to meet at "UFC: Miller Cerrone x" on July 16 in Atlantic City (USA).

The fight was first reported by the American site "Fox Sports" and confirmed by Combate.com next to next to Ultimate sources. It will be the first fight of the weight-straw second female category added by the UFC to his squad after the success achieved by the female bantamweight in 2013. The first winner of the category will be determined through the 20th season of the reality show The Ultimate Fighter, which rely solely on the fighters of the division and will be filmed from July in Las Vegas.

Gadelha was listed among the fighters to join the program, but as the athlete RN cuts a lot of weight to act in the division, negotiated to stay out of the show and directly UFC debut. The fighter 25 years of age is three times world champion of jiu-jitsu and trains at Nova Uniao gym in Rio de Janeiro, the same team featherweight UFC champion Jose Aldo and former champion bantamweight Renan Barao. Undefeated in 11 MMA fights, she came to be scaled to meet Carla Esparza by category title in Invicta FC, last December, but fell ill after weighing and had to give up the fight.

In Lähdemäki, Gadea will find an unknown fighter of MMA fans, but with perfect cartel of five wins in five fights, all in European organizations. His last two wins were by submission.

With the addition of women's fight, "UFC: Miller Cerrone x" expands to nine confirmed fights, six of them including Brazilian athletes. Check out the updated card:

UFC: Miller Cerrone x
July 16, in Atlantic City (USA)
CARD EVENT
Lightweight: Donald Cerrone x Jim Miller
Weight-welterweight Rick Story x John Howard
Lightweight: Edson Barboza x Evan Dunham
Lightweight: Gleison Tibau x Pat Healy
Bantamweight: Sterling Aljamain x Hugo Wolverine
Flyweight John Lineker x Alptekin Ozkilic
Flyweight: Lucas Mineiro vs Jim Alers
Lightweight: Joe Proctor x Justin Salas

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Claudia is a beast, and will be in title talks soon.. IF she can consistently make weight.

Digging that card, too. Wow, Alers dropping 2 weight classes?

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