Lingerie Fighting Championships (LFC) appears to be the latest fad in the “lingerie version” of sports and on August 11 played to a sell out crowd in Las Vegas as well as being broadcast live on PPV on more than 1000 cable and satellite systems across North America. The sport, and I use that term loosely, features women competing in MMA, clad only in lingerie, some of whom are current playboy models.

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I think the impact of an organisation like the LFC on women’s MMA is obvious, you only have to look at the pictures from the event and the comments that follow them to realise that. Despite the fact that women’s MMA has come a long way in the last three to four years, with the UFC now boasting two divisions (Bantamweight and Strawweight) and a partnership with all female promotion, Invicta FC, there is still plenty of work to do.

Women are still looking for acceptance in a sport that is more male dominated than most both in participation and fan base and there are conservatives out there who still don’t believe that women should be competing in combat sports at all. Any “sport” that comes in and makes a mockery of this is in poor taste, in my opinion, especially when the founder of the LFC, Roni Taylor, makes comments like this, “Look, most women in MMA are ugly. I’m sorry, but it’s true. Our fighters look like ring girls and they fight in lingerie and I don’t see anything wrong with that.”

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