Aspen Ladd

Aspen Ladd started her combat sports career at the age of 14. She was trained in boxing, kickboxing wrestling, and BJJ. She made her first amateur appearance at 18, at WCFC with Jaimee Nievera. Ladd kept building on her triumph in Ultimate Reno Combat, where she won 3 consecutive bouts. She finished all of her opponents within the first round. In WCFC Ladd was able to defeat Leslie Rodriguez with a unanimous decision. Aspen beat Silvia Babaeghian, Maddy Simmons and Cynthia Calvillo in WCFC 9 before taking on Cynthia Calvillo in WCFC 9 Cynthia outclassed Aspen and beat her in a unanimous decision to put an ominous mark on her amateur record. Ladd defeated Roma Pawelek on Tuff n' Uff and improved her amateur record from 8-1 to 8-1. Aspen turned professional in 2015, and was signed by Invicta FC to make her professional debut. Invicta fight Ana Carolina Vidal in Invicta '11 and she won by the first round TKO. Invicta 16, she was able to go from Bantamweight to her fight with Amanda Cooper by armbar in the second round. Aspen used the superior skills she had learned in wrestling to beat McGill. She ended the fight with a an KO (3rd round) (elbows and punches). Aspen then fought Jessica Hoy (138.1lb at Invicta FC) in a "catchweight"(138.1lb) as Ladd failed to make an appearance at the. Aspen, however, beat Hoy by using TKO. Invicta FC 28 was her final fight for the company. Invicta FC 22 saw Sijara Eubanks defeated by an unanimous decision. Aspen Ladd competed in her UFC debut against Lina Ladsberg. She was a step ahead of Lina, and ground-and - pounded her for an TKO victory in the 2nd round. She repeated her dominance and scored an even impressive victory in her next bout against Tonya Evinger in UFC 229. Ladd took on Evinger to the punch in the initial round, and earned a Performance of the Night bonus. Invicta FC, a rematch of UFC Fight Night dos Anjos and Lee the fight was between Sijara-Eubanks for her first significant fight. Both fighters fought a close fight that Ladd beat by a unanimous decision. The two fighters each received an award called the Fight of the Night Bonus. Ladd's first loss came in her next fight against Germaine de Randamie in Ladd's first UFC main event fight. Randamie finished Ladd within 16 seconds of the fight and ended her streak to win. Yana Knitskaya was defeated in UFC 7 ESPN 7's 3rd round, was defeated by Randamie. In her most recent fight with the UFC she fought Norma Dumont at UFC Fight Night 195 to replace her fight. The fight ended in an majority decision.