The face of women's mixed martial arts, Gina Carano will be making her long awaited return to the cage very, very soon. The EliteXC veteran has been credited to bringing female mixed martial artists to the main stage of top organization's, now including strikeforce, which currently supports two-divisions: the welterweight (135-pounds) and middleweight (145-pounds) classes. The one-time MAXIM model will be returning to the Strikeforce promotion come this June when she is expected to be taking on Sarah D'Alelio upon her return, though nothing is certain as of yet. ...

During the televised broadcast of the recent Strikeforce: “Fedor vs. Silva” show, none other than Gina Carano announced that she would be making her return to Strikeforce sometime in 2011. To this day, Carano remains a very popular and yet also somewhat-controversial female fighting star. Some fans don’t appreciate the way she left the sport, and some fans have mixed feelings regarding her impending return. I’m actually a Gina Carano fan even though I’m a bigger fan of her greatest rival, Cristiane Santos, so here’s five reasons to be excited for the return of Gina Carano. ...

At one time, former EliteXC and Strikeforce fighter Gina Carano was known as “The Face of Women’s MMA”. Carano was unbeaten, gorgeous, and decidedly vicious in the cage, with a 7-0 flawless record that included four finishes with two first-round stoppages. Then, of course, Carano met Cristiane Santos in the first-ever MMA event headlined by a women’s MMA fight, and hasn’t fought since. But that’s about to change, as it’s recently been revealed that Carano is back in training and is more than likely planning a major comeback. ...

Gina Carano, the former face of women's mixed martial arts, has been missing in action for quite a while now. After debuting in Strikeforce in August of 2009 in disappointing fashion when she was defeated be reining 145-pound champion Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos (for the then vacant title), Carano has done everything to stay away from the cage since the TKO loss--the lone loss of her career. Movie roles, television duties have consumed her life, however Scott Coker, CEO of Strikeforce has hope that the beautiful Muay Thai specialist has it in her to return to the cage and compete again, and he feels she could do it sometime this year. ...

Although she was at one time known as “The Face of Women’s MMA”, former EliteXC and Strikeforce star Gina Carano hasn’t seen the inside of a cage since August 2009, when she lost a pivotal showdown to Cristiane Santos with literally one second left in the round. Carano has virtually vanished from the MMA landscape and the popular media in general since that deflating loss, while “Cyborg” has gone on to rival and some would say even eclipse Carano’s fame thanks to Santos' downright scary performances highlighted by the utter destruction of her opponents. But fear not Carano fans, according to Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker, Carano’s MMA career is far from over. ...

Strikeforce has announced the next challenger for champion "Cyborg" Cris Santos (9-1). Stepping inside the cage with her will be Jan Finney (8-6) and she is not as big of an underdog as most of the fans and media make her out to be in this fight. ...

The last few weeks we have seen a lot going on inside the Strikeforce organization. Some of it,well most of it, seems rather negative and I wonder if we are watching the final days of the organization. ...