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Sabrina Cohen will fight 100 rounds against male rivals

Fighter’s 100 martial arts rounds

One of Wales’ top female martial arts fighters has fought 100 rounds against men in tribute to her father who died of cancer when she was young.

Sabrina Cohen has raised money for a cancer charity during the five-hour Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) challenge.

The 22-year-old firefighter, from Cardiff, had been training three times a day, five days a week to prepare.

It is thought to be the first time that such an event has been staged in the sport.

Ms Cohen fought 100 two-minute rounds as part of her challenge - a normal MMA fight has three rounds between three and five minutes long.

“I watched my father fight so hard to spend as much time as he could with his family, and so I want to fight hard as a tribute to him,” she said.

“He was a huge inspiration in my life.”

Ms Cohen’s father Meir died when she was nine years old.

“The idea of staging this event came as a bit of a daydream to me,” she said before the event at the Cardiff MMA in Ocean Way.

"I just thought it would be an excellent way of raising money, so every penny I get will be going to Macmillan Cancer Relief and the firefighters’ benevolent fund.

Semi-pro

"On the day itself, I am going to be fighting in 100 rounds - there are going to be about 30 men who will fight me and they will take it in turns so that I am fighting someone new for every round.

“I have been putting a lot of work into training for this and am looking forward to it a lot,” she added.

“Although I love the sport, I know that on Monday after the fight I am going to be having a huge rest from it and probably nursing a few bruises too.”

Ms Cohen, who hopes to turn semi-pro later this year, is one of the few female fighters in the sport in the UK.

In 2004, she became the winner of the first women’s MMA fight to be held in the country.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/4398067.stm

I like how the article confuses tenses.
As for this woman…

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How the hell can someone fully train 3x a day?

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How the hell can someone fully train 3x a day?

The shifts for british firefighters often leave 5 days a week free.

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100 rounds in one day? It makes me vomit just thinking about it. Talk about puke conditioning.

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what if she gets KTFO in the first round? HEY it’s possible.

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This is awsome. I wanna buy her a drink. I wanna do this too!

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Props, fighting 10 rounds is hard enough, 100 is just insane.

All the power to her.

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But what does it have to do with her father’s cancer?

He fought hard so she’ll fight hard?

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What I mean is, I’ve done balls to the wall training sessions and I’m usually too wiped to go afterwards. Unless she’s, I don’t know, running in the morning, MA in the noon, and lifting in the evening, or something, hell.

She’s definitely easy on the eyes, tho. :smiley:

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Has this happened?

I remember it brought up on sherdog a while ago.

The big question was what the hell is with the “vs 100 men” thing? Charity is charity, but it almost seems like shes one of those men hating women or something like that.

And yes, suppose she does get knocked out, or gets caught in a submission hold that injures her badly?

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It won’t be full contact.

Heck Steve “nasty” anderson did something ike this about 10 years ago, he fought for 24 hours straight to raise monsy for Kids Diabiet’s.

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Pizzdoff lol…confuses tenses…lol of course they are fucking Welsh. Firefighting shifts leave days off becasue typically we pull 24 hour shifts. I am not sure on the shift rotation of Limey depts. but stateside there are about 4 or 5 common models.

As to the “lass” good for her!

Aaron Fields
www.seattle-jujutsu.org

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This kind of reminds me of another woman who took on many men. However, that definitely wasn’t a charity event.

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100 rounds in 5 hours. And it says MMA. But a lot of things pass for MMA these days. Would need to know the rules to fully appreciate the accomplishment. Regardless 100 rounds is fuckin ironman tough. Especially across genders.

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I think it’s just a silly stunt, regardless of gender. I mean, after a few rounds, she’ll be too tired to be entertaining.

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is she fighting male MMA practitioners or just regular joes who want to sign up?

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100 rds… okay. Was she seeing how many five year olds she could take on or what? I would have though she would have been KTFO sooner rather than later. As for a woman being a firefighter… HAHAHAHA.

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i dont understand because the first half of the article makes it sound as though this was something already done…then the second half starts talking about how she is “training hard for it”…so has this been done, if so what were the results?

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i cant say id be in there to watch for 5 hours, that’d just get boring.

but all due respect, thats a long haul

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She fought 101 rounds (the last one being in honour of her father) but the article doesn’t mention if she knocked anyone out or anything. BTW, it mentions how several people who went several rounds with her were training partners, so apparently she didn’t fight just Regular Joe’s.

She wants to do this again next year.

Also: RTFA