{"id":66630,"date":"2025-08-14T03:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T03:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/66630\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T03:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T03:12:07","slug":"canadas-jasmine-jasudavicius-nominated-for-world-mma-awards-female-fighter-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/66630\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Jasmine Jasudavicius nominated for World MMA Awards&#8217; Female Fighter of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian fighter Jasmine Jasudavicius is getting the recognized by the mixed martial arts world.<\/p>\n<p>Fighters Only CEO Rob Hewitt announced the nominations for the 17th annual World MMA Awards in a <a href=\"https:\/\/fightersonly.com\/article\/ext\/91155\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">press release<\/a> on Tuesday, including Canada&#8217;s very own Jasudavicius for Female Fighter of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>The five-foot-seven fighter has the chance to make history as a Canadian has never won Female Fighter of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>The St. Catherines, ON. native is currently ranked No. 5 in the Women&#8217;s Flyweight category with a 14-3-0-0 record. Her next fight is on UFC&#8217;s Fight Night in Vancouver Oct. 18 against No. 2 ranked Manon Fiorot.<\/p>\n<p>The other nominees include Dakota Ditcheva, Kayla Harrison, Valentina Shevchenko and Natalia Silva. The athletes are chosen based on performance through a year-long period from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025. The nominees are selected by a panel of MMA industry experts and judge performance in and outside the ring. <\/p>\n<p>Voting for the 2025 awards <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldmmaawards.com\/votenow\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">open Aug. 12<\/a> and fans will have until Oct. 6 to cast their votes online. <\/p>\n<p>Last year&#8217;s Female Fighter of the Year was awarded to Weili Zhang, a Chinese mixed martial artist in the Strawweight division. <\/p>\n<p>The 2025 World MMA Awards ceremony date and location will be announced by Fighters Only in the following weeks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian fighter Jasmine Jasudavicius is getting the recognized by the mixed martial arts world. Fighters Only CEO Rob&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-66630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}