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Biography

Debi Purcell is a mixed martial artist. She has been involved in fitness and martial arts for over twenty years, with competitive experience in vale tudo, submision grappling, boxing, kickboxing, muay thai, wrestling, taekwondo and gymnastics. Her introduction to MMA came in 1993 during the inaugural Ultimate Fighting Championship, when she was training alongside some of the first competitors in Huntingdon Beach. Having taken kickboxing, boxing and JKD, she moved on to brazilian jiu jitsu and finally vale tudo under the famous Marco Ruas, when she says "everything started to make sense".

She is actively involved in supporting women's MMA, having set up and the WMAA (Women's Martial Arts Association), along with competing herself. Her eventual goal is to develop quality competitions on a regular basis for female MMA fighters, as she discusses in a with TheFightGame.tv.

Her last fight was a loss by unanimous decision against Hitomi Akano at Smack Girl, on 15 February, 2006.

Career

First woman to ever compete and win in King of the Cage
Ultimate Wrestling World Title Belt Holder
Hook-N-Shoot Revolution Winner, 2002
Headliner on the first ever all women NHB card in US history
Ultimate Wrestling Minnesota Winner
Black Belt in Ruas Vale Tudo
Black Belt in Taekwondo

Sources and See Also

List of female mixed martial artists

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