MMA: What about Amanda?

Recently I wrote an article with a reference citing Kim Couture.  One reader in particular was quite unhappy with my choice of Kim being a spokes person for Women's MMA as "she is only in it because she married Randy Couture" and further disparaged Kim for not even being a good example to use because her jaw was broken by the first shot she took in her debut fight with Kim Rose.

I used Kim in my article, not based on her record of wins and losses, but rather because, unlike her competitor Kim Rose, Mrs. Couture used her position in the spotlight to advocate for changing the rules of women's MMA to have five minute, rather than three minute rounds.

Now I would not be the type to break a critic's jaw and then ask her to try to fight three five minute rounds to prove a point about Kim being a tougher competitor than this "real" woman MMA fighter is.  Although this all seems to prove another point I have made in yet another article on how quickly some women fighters will turn on the current "heroes" of their sport; a tendency I think goes against both them and the furthering of the very sport they supposedly "love."

So if celebrity is the reason Kim Couture is making headlines in MMA, then what about Amanda Lucas?

Amanda Lucas is the oldest of George Lucas (the renowned film maker of Star Wars, American Graffiti and Indiana Jones fame).  As a billionaire's daughter one would certainly rank her as being equally famous to the Coutures.

Although she has not flaunted herself saying "Hi, I am Amanda the "Powerhouse" Lucas and I am a "real" woman MMA fighter," she has at the age of 27, been studying martial arts, including kickboxing, Muay Thai, and Brazilian ju-jitsu at the Fairtex gym for years before her debut fight in New Zealand, on May 31 this year.

Fighting in the "Princesses of Pain" in Aukland she faced champion fighter Nicole Kavanah, although most MMA fans were not even aware of it.

By deliberately keeping a low profile and not claiming the prima donna treatment that a person with a celebrity background could easily be aforded, she is laidback and lives in the same unglamorous conditions that her team-mates do as they go on the road in an attempt to establish an international venue for the relatively obscure sport.

And not only has she stepped into the MMA arena to try her luck, she has had parts in each of the Star Wars trilogies, as have Her younger adoped sibling Katie and Jett.  So she also has acting credits on her resume.

Perhaps it is simply that she has chosen not to be a braggart that she has raised so little fanfare in her ventures outside of teaching hip-hop in San Francisco.

If having a celebrity name is all it takes to make headlines, you quick to find fault detractors, then what about Amanda?