OTHER VITALS
CAREER STATUS: Prospect
WALKOUT THEME: “Dance of Dragons” by Ramin Djawadi
SPONSORS: N/A
FIGHTING STYLE
PRIMARY: Kickboxing (Announced as Mixed Martial Artist)
SECONDARY: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
STANCE: Orthodox
STRENGTHS
Grappling Fundamentals: Alex isn’t flashy about what she does on the ground. She’s just pretty good at it. She won’t be throwing flying armbars or gogoplatas, she won’t be pulling rubber guard or anything like that. What she does is basic–but what she does is effective.
Pressure, Pressure, Pressure: Alex doesn’t really know how to back-up. She moves forward, stalks you down, and tries to impose what she wants to do.
Striking Techniques: In comparison to her grappling, Alex is much flashier with her striking. Flying knees, spinning punches and kicks, etc. are all in her arsenal.
WEAKNESSES
Arms Too Short to Box with God: Alex is itty-bitty, and with being itty-bitty, comes itty-bitty reach. She may not like it, but to be effective, she has to get in tight.
Pressure, Pressure, Pressure: Alex only knows one direction–forward. And that can sometimes lead right into someone else’s fist.
Wrestling Timing: Pure wrestling is far and away Alex’s weakest trait–the timing on her shots isn’t quite there yet, so she tends to rely on clinch work to get takedowns than pure wrestling.
STATISTICAL INFORMATION
#1 Punches: 15
#2 Kicks: 15
#3 Clinch Striking: 5
#4 Clinch Grappling: 5
#5 Strength: 10
#6 Agility: 17
#7 Dodging: 18
#8 Takedowns: 12
#9 Takedown Defense: 12
#10 Heart: 15
#11 Ground & Pound: 10
#12 Ground Game: 10
#13 Submissions: 10
#14 Submission Defense: 10
#15 Conditioning: 15
#16 Toughness: 15
#17 Control: 11
#18 Aggressiveness: 11
#19 KO Resistance: 14
CONTRACT
4 FIGHTS – $200,000 (EXCLUSIVE)
(0 FIGHTS LEFT)
CAREER EARNINGS: $1,450,000
ACCOLADES
CHAMPIONSHIPS: 0
N/A
HONORS: 0
N/A
FIGHT OF THE NIGHT: 0
N/A
PERFORMANCE OF THE NIGHT: 1
(Boss Fight XLVI)
BACKSTORY
Yanno that once in a lifetime kinda thing, where you discover something you fall in love with almost immediately?
Yeah, that’s not this story.
Alexandra is probably the last person you’d expect to find out is a cage fighter, if you met her on the street. Quiet, soft-spoken, generally with a skip in her step, she’s not one that exactly inspires the image of someone who’s looking to punch you in the mouth–and that’s largely because she wasn’t, for a most of her youth. She was a bookish young woman who aspired to be a history teacher, politically-minded, not exactly afraid of confrontation but her weapon of choice was her intellect. Socially, she wasn’t particularly outgoing, and that reered its head even moreso when she graduated from secondary school and moved from her home in Swansea to the North of Wales, and began attending Wrexham Glyndwr University.
Anxious with noone she knew around, Alexandra took up a self-defense course along with her studies, and it sparked an interest in martial arts. Her self-defense instructor was a BJJ Brown Belt, and they began training together in private lessons, and it was thru this relationship that Alexandra was introduced to MMA. Originally, she brushed aside the idea of actually fighting, but over the course of several months, the idea crept into her mind more and more. Her instructor-turned-boyfriend at the time talked her into taking an amateur fight, which she won handily, submitting her opponent in the first round.
And with that, her amateur career began to take off at 17.
After 3 amateur wins, she was approached by one of the coaches at Renegade MMA to join the team and prepare for a professional debut–despite not being finished with her studies. She eventually worked out a way to study online, and relocated again, this time from Wrexham to Birmingham, England.
She’s since stopped taking amateur fights, and focused solely on preparing for a professional debut, at the young age of 19 years old, with Everest MMA’s newly rechristened Flyweight Division. She would win her debut fight against Ronnie Banks by an armbar submission, before suffering her first professional loss to Victoria Marshall by unanimous decision. She rebounded from the loss to knockout Tatiana Ruiz, setting up a rematch with Marshall for the first ever 125 lb championship. In a grueling fight that went to decision, the two fought to a draw and forced the first Sudden Death round in Everest history. Marshall would get her hand raised, and force a second defeat on Alex, who was nonetheless encouraged to join the Union GP Bantamweight Division.
