Elaina Maxwell Defends her Purple Belt at NAGA

Elaina Maxwell had a busy past weekend with her competing at NAGA and defending her Purple Belt that she just received a while back. It turns out that Elaina did very well and is happy with her grappling performance at NAGA. She competed against a an old Robert Drysdale BJJ teammate from Mica Machado’s Gym in the Purple Absolute division and she tapped her with a reverse triangle. She goes on to say that there was only 2 in the division and feels that NAGA should offer discounts to female competitors to get more female registrants in the tournament itself. She did say that there was no one in her NOGI division. Overall she said that she got first in both division which is what I expected the outcome to be anyways and I have to say that Elaina is becoming a more well-rounded fighter and hopefully she will compete within the strikeforce ranks soon.

Elaina is going to be hitting up the Pan-American BJJ tournament in Irvine, California. The tournament starts in April and runs from 8th through 11th. Again Elaina will be competing in the purple divisions and said that there should be more women at this tournament.

Elaina again wants to thank her sponsors who helped get ready for this past tournament and their continue support of her of all endeavors that she has done within the past year. Here are the sponsors that support Elaina Maxwell: Tussle Fight Gear, Knoxx, Trinity BJJ,  Combat Sports Academy and Cesar Gracie for all their support in her career.

It sure seems to be a tough year for some fighters to get in the MMA world so many of the fighters are competing in BJJ tournaments or any kind of grappling tournament to keep their skills sharp because you never know when you will get a call to head over to Strikeforce and fight on a major promotion like that. Elaina has always been ready for a good challenge and hopes that she will get the call one day to get this done.

I hope that Strikeforce really gets this 145 tournament going, but from the looks of it, it will not happen in April and our FeMMA expert MarQ-news editor from fg.com said that more than likely that there will a chance for the tournament to be in June or July since we know that April and May are packed already with some great fights.

So don’t forget to hit up Elaina on her website and at facebook to catch all the latest news in her career and for some great content that she posted with interviews from various places and a great bio that is on her website.

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