Back when the UFC first decided that it wanted to get into the business of women’s MMA, which also happened to be right around the same time that Invicta FC was finding its footing as the only all-female fight promotion in North America, Invicta President Shannon Knapp used to get a lot of questions about how her organization could survive with the UFC siphoning off its best 135-pounders to co-star in the Ronda Rousey show. Back then, Knapp had one standing answer to the question , and it was a pretty good one: The UFC had one women’s division, while Invicta had five. In other words, there were plenty of good fighters to go around. Then the UFC added another women’s division – 115 pounds, which also threatened to cull the more ambitious fighters from the divisions just above and just below – and still, Knapp insisted, it wasn’t a big deal. Still plenty of fighters, plenty of talent, enough to populate a full fight card with no problem.
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With latest offering, Invicta FC showing signs of a roster raided by the UFC – MMA Junkie