Aspen Ladd
Aspen Ladd's combat sport journey began at 14 years old. She studied kickboxing, boxing and wrestling prior to making her first appearance in amateur competition at WCFC with Jaimee Nievera. Ladd gained confidence after the win and fought 3 bouts in Ultimate Reno Combat. Her opponents all fell during the first round. Ladd went back to WCFC in order to defeat Leslie Rodriguez through a unanimous ruling. Aspen beat Silvia Babaeghian Maddy Simmons and Cynthia Calvillo prior to facing Cynthia Calvillo in WCFC 9 Cynthia beat Aspen and defeated her via unanimous decision to put an ominous mark on her amateur record. Ladd took her fight with Roma Pawelek to improve to a record of 8-1. Aspen became a professional in the year 2015 when she signed with Invicta FC to make her professional debut. Invicta 11, she was able to slay Ana Carolina Vidal to score TKO victory in the opening round. Invicta Fc 16 marked her first bout as a bantamweight. She defeated Amanda Cooper with an armbar in second round. Aspen used the superior techniques she learned from wrestling to take on McGill. Aspen ended her fight via TKO (3rd round) (elbows as well as punches). Aspen next faced Jessica Hoy (138.1lb at Invicta FC) at an "catchweight"(138.1lb), because Ladd failed to make weight. Aspen, however, dominated Hoy through TKO. Invicta FC 21, she won her final fight with the promotion by unanimous decision. The debut of Aspen Ladd's UFC debut came on UFC Fight Night 118 when she faced Lina Lansberg. She outclassed Lina with a pound and grind to her before prevailing by TKO during the second round. Ladd continued to dominate and racked up an impressive victory in her next match against Tonya Evinger in UFC 229. Ladd won the fight in the first round and received the Performance of the Night Bonus. Invicta FC fighter Sijara Eugenes was in the UFC's Fight Night dos Anjos Lee rematch with Sijara's Eubanks, was her first fight that she had in any major way. Ladd was victorious in by a unanimous decision following a great back-and forth fight with the fighters got her Fight of the Night bonuses. Ladd's first loss came in her next fight against Germaine de Randamie in Ladd's first UFC main event fight. Randamie defeated Ladd in 16-seconds to break her losing streak. After a short break after which she went on to beat Yana Kunizkaya of the UFC in their ESPN 7 third-round fight. For a rematch she took on Norma Dumont in her most recent UFC fight. The fight ended in an majority decision.
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