[Event] Medusa 5 - The Bantamweights - Dec 28

Dent · **Posted:** Tue Dec 19, 2023 1:58 pm

Medusa 5: The Bantamweights is an upcoming Female Only Jiu-Jitsu sport event that will take place on December 28, 2023, at the Academy LA in Hollywood, California, United States.

Superfights (UFC Fight Pass)

Kay Hansen vs. Bre Stikk Flyweight Combat Jiu-Jitsu Super Fight
Alex Enriquez vs. Jennifer Rivera (rumor)

The Bantamweights (UFC Fight Pass)

16 Bantamweights TBA

Background

16-Female Bantamweight Combat Jiu-Jitsu Bracket! Still to be announced!?! lol Anyways here we go...

UFC veteran Kay Hansen will be meeting Bre Stikk in a flyweight Combat Jiu-Jitsu superfight at Medusa 5 on December 28th, 2023. Hansen has been a professional MMA fighter 2017 and has registered a number of submission wins in the sport since then, including one in the UFC. She spent four fights competing for the promotion from 2020 to 2022, but was released after going 1-3 and has now rejoined Invicta FC instead. Her opponent Stikk was only recently promoted to 10th Planet black belt, but she has been a force to be reckoned with on the mats for quite some time before that.

Stikk actually has quite a bit of experience on the Medusa mats, and she stormed to victory in a flyweight Combat Jiu-Jitsu tournament back at Medusa 3. She returned to defend her title at their very next event, but the format was a little different as the promotion had decided to expand their brackets to 16 women instead of 8. Stikk went out in the opening round of the tournament at Medusa 4, but that loss only came in EBI overtime after a tough battle in regulation time.

Bre Stikk has significantly more experience under the Combat Jiu-Jitsu ruleset than Kay Hansen does, but MMA fighters are often able to excel when they’re given the ability to strike in grappling matches. This superfight won’t be the only Combat Jiu-Jitsu match that fans will get to see at Medusa 5 either, as the promotion has also announced a bantamweight tournament under the ruleset as well. The full lineup for the tournament hasn’t been confirmed just yet, but Medusa has revealed that their flyweight champion Alex Enriquez will be competing in the bracket.

Medusa announced the news that Kay Hansen and Bre Stikk were competing in a superfight at Medusa 5 in a recent post to their official Instagram account.

Medusa 5 is scheduled for December 28th, 2023 and the promotion has just confirmed that there will be a bantamweight Combat Jiu-Jitsu tournament taking place at the event. Not only is Medusa a fantastic promotion that features some of the best competitors around, but it’s also one of the first female only promotions that came into existence over the last few years. Although they started out a little smaller than they are right now, Medusa already had a huge beginnings thanks to the being under the guidance of Eddie Bravo and enjoying a strong connection with EBI and the Combat Jiu-Jitsu World Championship.

The promotion originally started out by hosting two separate 8-woman tournaments on the same day, but they’ve since decided to focus on one 16-woman tournament at each event instead. The full list of the bantamweight Combat Jiu-Jitsu competitors stepping on the mats at Medusa 5 hasn’t been confirmed just yet, but the promotion has announced one name. Alex Enriquez will be moving up in weight and attempting to become the first woman to hold two Medusa belts at the same time, as she won the flyweight Combat Jiu-Jitsu title at Medusa 4 earlier this year.

That was actually the first time that Medusa used the larger 16-woman format and Enriquez stormed to victory in a tough bracket, submitting all four of her opponents and only needing to go to EBI overtime once. It’s tough to predict how Enriquez will do at the heavier weight class, especially seeing as none of her potential opponents have been announced just yet. One thing is for certain though, a lot of the attention will be on her as she attempts to become the promotion’s first two-division champion.

[Event] Medusa 5 - The Bantamweights - Dec 28

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