The Fiery Women of MMA, In And Out Of The Cage

The Victory Kiss

After defending her title at the Invicta FC 17 in Costa Mesa, California, Tonya Evinger puked into a bucket (almost a trademark of hers) and sealed her victory with a kiss. Evinger said she wanted to win MMA Moment of the Year, then proceeded to lay a kiss on Invicta in-cage announcer Laura Sanko. Sanko pulled back and laughed it off, later tweeting, “I literally don’t even know what to say lol! That was hilarious.”

Still, the move was a decisive one, with many saying the openly gay Evinger shouldn’t have kissed the reporter. Sanko, for one, would like the haters to back off. “She got so much hate for that on Twitter for months,” said Sanko. “To me, this whole thing is really funny. Then I start reading the stuff that they’re saying about her, and I honestly started getting choked up.”