Invicta FC 5: Penne vs. Waterson is an upcoming mixed martial arts event to be held on April 5, 2013.
Fight Card
Main Card
Atomweight United States Jessica Penne(c) vs. United States Michelle Waterson For Invicta FC Atomweight Championship
Flyweight United States Barb Honchak vs. Brazil Vanessa Porto For inaugural Invicta FC Flyweight Championship
Featherweight Brazil Cristiane Santos vs. Australia Fiona Muxlow
Bantamweight Canada Sarah Kaufman vs. United States Leslie Smith
Flyweight United States Zoila Frausto Gurgel vs. Brazil Jennifer Maia
Bantamweight United States Kaitlin Young vs. United States Lauren Taylor
Featherweight Canada Julia Budd vs. United States Mollie Estes
Strawweight Australia Bec Hyatt vs. Austria Jasminka Cive (de)
Preliminary Card
Atomweight United States Cassie Rodish vs. England Simona Soukupova
Bantamweight United States Jessamyn Duke vs. United States Miriam Nakamoto
Strawweight Finland Katja Kankaanpää vs. Brazil Juliana Carneiro Lima
Atomweight United States Jodie Esquibel vs. Australia Alex Chambers
Strawweight United States Rose Namajunas vs. United States Kathina Catron
Background
Shannon Knapp announced during Invicta FC 4 that the event will be headlined by a co-main event of Jessica Penne defending her Invicta FC Atomweight Championship against "The Karate Hottie" Michelle Waterson along with a flyweight championship bout between Vanessa Porto and Barb Honchak and that Sarah Kaufman would make her Invicta debut on the show. The show was originally targeted for April 13, however Knapp announced they would change it to April 5 after the UFC announced a show on that date.
On February 5, 2013 it was announced that Invicta FC had signed Zoila Frausto Gurgel and she would make her debut at Invicta FC against Jennifer Maia.
On February 15, 2013, Shannon Knapp announced that Invicta FC had signed Cristiane Santos to debut at Invicta 5 against Ediane Gomes. The winner of the fight will face Marloes Coenen at Invicta FC 6 to crown the first Invicta FC Featherweight Champion. Gomes was originally scheduled to fight Julia Budd but was moved when Santos was signed. Budd will now face Fiona Muxlow. On March 19, 2013, Ediane Gomes suffered an injury and was forced to withdraw from the fight with Santos. As a result, Fiona Muxlow was moved to fight Santos and Budd would be matched against another new opponent in Mollie Estes. Mollie's original opponent was to be Veronica Rothenhausler but Veronica suffered an injury and was dropped from the card allowing Estes to be moved into the fight with Budd.
A fight between River Jones and Lauren Barefoot was originally scheduled to take place on the preliminary card but was canceled when Jones suffered an injury. Cassie Rodish was originally scheduled to fight Nicdali Rivera-Calanoc but Nicdali was forced to withdraw due to injury on March 11 and she was replaced by Simona Soukupova. Kaitlin Young was set to fight Amanda Nunes, but Nunes suffered an arm injury in training and was replaced by Lauren Taylor.
