Courtesy Jeff Binn
CHANDIGARH: They love their kohl, earrings and dresses with fancy prints as much as they love their fight gloves and scars from bloody battles in the cage. "We wouldn't be in it if we were worried about the broken nose or the black eye," says Cherie Buck who is one half competition of the sole women's bout that the Super Fight League will host in Chandigarh on Saturday.
The 32-year-old mixed martial artist will be up against the svelte Colleen Schneider and given the kind of roar the women's bout between Lena Ovchynnikova and Sanja Sucevic received at the Mumbai leg, the Buck-Schneider face-off shouldn't be any different.
While American Colleen's turning MMA pro was more of a case of natural progression given her traditional martial arts background, Cherie's entry to the sport comes from an untoward incident she faced when she was 20. "I got jumped by three girls on the streets and it was a pretty scary feeling. I swore to defend myself after that and hit a fighting gym for a beginning," recalls the fighter from Gloucester.
One thing led to another and confines of fight cage seemed far more comfortable than any place. The sport has become so much of an addiction that Cherie recently gave up her 9 to 5 job in an office and now deals with security services so she can train in the mornings when the gym sees professional fighters training. Colleen works as a personal trainer that lets her mix business with pleasure. She even runs a clothing company along with her boyfriend but unsurprisingly, the garments are more MMA oriented than anything.
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