Pioneer promoters like Jeff Osborne of Hook-N-Shoot were putting on all-women fight cards in the early 2000's. Elite XC put women's fighting on mainstream television and built the public's interest in seeing females fight. Gina Carano became the face of women's MMA while competing in
Patrick Cummins is apparently pulling the plug on UFC 217. Alongside a photo showing a grotesquely swollen right foot, Cummins said that he had a bad staph infection that would apparently force him off of the UFC 217 fight card. “IV antibiotics aren't killing my mutant staph infection,” he wrote