Kerry Vera will face Kim Couture in her next bout.  Couture, fresh off a 'run in' at TNA Pro Wrestling's latest PPV, might be better served focusing on her training instead of getting involved in 'sports entertainment' (Photo:  Affliction)

The Revolution Will  Be Televised

Bellator Fighting Championships announced on Tuesday that they have finalized a broadcast deal with Fox Sports Net, NBC, and Telemundo, for its second and third seasons of tournament action. This increases the availability of high definition Bellator programming starting in April 2010. Here's hoping that the rumored 115 and 125-lb women's tournaments will be on the air next year.

Fake Catfight

Kim "Sugarfree: Couture (1-1), probably the worst female MMA fighter to ever get so much attention, engaged in a fake attack versus pro-wrestler Lisa Marie Varon at a TNA event. Varon is looking to get into MMA and raised eyebrows by challenging Couture to a match. The storyline is a very obvious attempt to drum up drama in the pro-wrestling community and get more viewers, but sadly makes it appear as if Kim Couture is not taking her next fight (against a very tough opponent) seriously. Couture, who lost her debut fight to Kim Rose(1-0) after battling all three rounds with a broken jaw (and then won a match against a woman who should never have been allowed in the cage) will be battling Kerry Vera (1-0).

Where Kim and Randy are in their divorce proceedings is frankly none of our business, but it is well known that Kerry Vera is also married to a UFC fighter (Brandon Vera). Unlike Kim, however, Kerry Vera actually knows how to fight. Kerry was the winner of the Muay Thai-based reality show Fight Girls and showcased her impressive striking ability in her decision win against Leslie Smith (1-1) at Bellator Fighting Championships 7 this past May. The match between Kim Couture and Kerry Vera is scheduled for November 20th, just six days after Randy Couture faces Brandon Vera at UFC 105.

Rosi Sexton in the News

We at Savage Science love UK badass Rosi Sexton (10-1), and here she is in the news and on GMTV.

Jenn Tate Goes Blue

Although MMA fighter Jennifer Tate (5-1) hasn't had a fight since last November, she recently received her BJJ blue belt from Ceaser Gracie after winning 3 gold medals for all of the divisions she entered at the 2009 Gracie Open.  Go Jen!

Pankration and Grappling

The 2009 National Pankration Championships will take place this Sunday, October 25th in Santa Ana, CA. The event includes women's national championships sponsoed by fighter girls. For more information, check out http://fightleague.org/2009Nationals.html.

The 2009 USA Wrestling Grappling World Team Trials take place October 22-24 in Phoenix, Arizona. For more information, check out http://www.themat.com/events/default.php?page=default&EventID=21817.

Fight Results

Suffering a recent loss to Alexis Davis (7-2), Molly "the Maulinator"Helsel brought her record back up to 8-8-1 by defeating Amanda Duvall (0-2) in thirty seconds via TKO at MAXXFC: October Brawl.

Vanessa Porto (10-3) engaged in more record padding by fighting the relatively green Roberta Torno (1-1) and winning by first round armbar at Jungle Fights 15 in Rio.

Angela Samaro (2-1) scored a TKO win in just 1:54 of the first round of a bout against Leanne Jenkins (0-2) at Pure Combat: Fearless.

Outi Louhimo (2-0) got a unanimous decision win versus Akiko Naito (5-9) at Fight Festival 26 in Toolon

Upcoming Fights:

Marissa Caldwell will be making her MMA debut in a battle against Jan Finney (4-7) at MMA BigShow: Full Force. The amazing Elena "Baby Doll" Reid (3-0) is fighting Masako Yoshida (16-14-5) at Extreme Beatdown 5. Sally Krumdiack (6-2) is taking on  Nicdali "Night Queen" Calanoc (6-3) for the FCF 125-lb title. Kinuka Sasaki (3-7) is fighting Ayuka Hamazaki at SHOOTO: GIG Central 1. And Valkyrie 3 will feature seven female fights; Naoko Omuro (9-7-3) vs Yukiko Seki (5-17), Izumi "Jet Izumi" Noguchi (5-5-1) vs Emi Fujino (8-3), Maho Muranami (4-5-2) vs Sachiko "Sachi" Yamamoto (5-4-1), Madoka Ebihara (4-2) vs Chokuho Sugiyama, Fukuko Hamada vs Yuko Takagi, Masae Mori (0-1) vs Aya Miura and Yasuko Mogi (4-4) vs Misaki Takimoto (10-11-4).