{"id":228172,"date":"2025-10-21T01:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T01:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/228172\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T01:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T01:06:08","slug":"ufc-vancouvers-melissa-croden-on-potential-canadian-mma-boom-were-all-passive-and-nice-until-were-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/228172\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Vancouver’s Melissa Croden on potential Canadian MMA boom: “We’re all passive and nice until we’re not”"},"content":{"rendered":"

After her successful UFC debut, amid several big wins for Canadian combatants at UFC Vancouver, Melissa Croden foresees a galvanizing of the Canadian MMA scene taking place. There was a lot of stacked Canadian representation on the UFC Vancouver card, with names like Mike Malott, Aiemann Zahabi<\/a>, Kyle Nelson, and Charles Jourdain all notching important wins.<\/p>\n

When asked if it feels like we\u2019re like poised for something big in the Canadian MMA scene as far as getting into a new, peak era and boom period for the great fight north, Croden said [via MMA Canada<\/a>],<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, that\u2019s a good point actually. I think I feel that way as well. Like, not to get political or anything, but I think Canada is weird in that way where we\u2019re all passive and nice until we\u2019re not for; and we\u2019ll be passive for a while and then we\u2019re like, \u201cOkay, this is enough.\u201d Like the freedom convoy for example like everyone\u2019s applying the rules that the government gives them and then finally like we can\u2019t do this anymore [laughs].\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Melissa Croden: \u201cCanada\u2019s sick of having all these great fighters not getting signed\u201d with the Ultimate Fighting Championship<\/p>\n

As the fresh debutant in the UFC, who just authored her first win with the Ultimate Fighting Championship, spoke about how she enjoys seeing how different cultural sensibilities manifest in fighter personas, Croden continued [via MMA Canada<\/a>],<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I think it kind of; you\u2019re seeing that personality come out within the MMA world as well. Like I kind of like to observe it myself because it\u2019s just funny to watch that different countries have their different cultures and personalities [laughs]. I think Canada definitely has a passiveness but until enough is enough and I think that what you pointed out is true, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Canada\u2019s sick of having all these great fighters not getting signed and we\u2019re slowly rising up to the occasion I think to represent that hey, we have athletes as well. There\u2019s not as many of us like compared to the states but there are some talented fighters here and yeah, they deserve the recognition as well and the opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After her successful UFC debut, amid several big wins for Canadian combatants at UFC Vancouver, Melissa Croden foresees…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[75376,49,48,641,108954,638,82,640,75381],"class_list":{"0":"post-228172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-aiemann-zahabi","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-melissa-croden","13":"tag-mma","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-ufc","16":"tag-ufc-vancouver"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}