The undefeated two-division Cage Fury Fighting Championships titleholder appears to be on the fast track to mixed martial arts stardom.
titleholder, the 23-year-old Holbrook, New York, native carries a perfect 6-0 record and holds CFFC gold at 115 and 125 pounds, her unblemished resume buoyed by one dominant performance after another. Kline operates out of the MK Muay Thai camp in New Jersey, where she sharpens her well-rounded skills alongside current“I don’t think there’s another woman out there that wants it more than me,” Kline told the Extra Rounds podcast prior to her most recent outing. “I want to get right in there.
Kline hammered the Brazilian with two-, three- and four-punch combinations, kept her at bay with a series of push kicks to the breadbasket and even mixed some shin-to-skull contact on occasion. She secured takedowns in all four rounds, oftentimes in multiples, and tortured Romero on the ground. Kline floated from one advantageous position to the next, threatened the neck with chokes and piled up points and damage with standing-to-ground punches, hammerfists and intermittent elbows.
“I feel good about my performance, a little disappointed in the finish,” Kline said afterward. “I love going out there and I love getting gritty, and that’s exactly what happened. I had a great time, and it was fun. The UFC is next. I’ll take nothing less than that. That’s where I deserve to be.” Whether or not the UFC pulls the trigger and signs Kline remains out of her control. In the meantime, she plans to continue to smooth out the rough edges in her game, even if they are few and far between. The many facets of hand-to-hand combat continue to keep Kline engaged and intrigued.
“The biggest reason I love MMA is there’s so many different parts to it,” she said. “People bring so many different parts of the game. You have people from so many different backgrounds, and there’s so many different arts you can learn. I love that it’s a never-ending learning process. You can only get better. You can only keep learning.
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