This beautiful young lady is Michelle Waterson.

Her nickname, by the way, is the well deserved "The Karate Hottie".

This five foot three 110 pound beauty is a native of Aurora, Colorado and is half American and half Thai.

Michelle took her first karate class at the age of ten and she hasn't looked back since.

She has been a bikini model, she was in Oxygen's "Fight Girls" (she was defeated by Ardra Fernandez in the fourth episode), she's been a Hooters girl, a spokes model and appeared on MTV's Bully Beatdown.

Michelle has a black belt in karate, and trains in MMA, Wushu and Muay Thai.

Her current MMA record is 8-3-0 with her last fight being a win over Masako Yoshida (via TKO) at Crowbar MMA - Spring Brawl on April 24th, 2010.

Michelle isn't fighting right now because on September 16th, 2010, she announced that she was pregnant with her first child and on March 18th, 2011 she gave birth to a daughter Araya.

Michelle says that she will be back.



Update:

On March 18th, 2011, Michelle gave birth to a beautiful baby girl named Araya.



Update 2:

On April 5th, 2013 at Invicta FC 5 - Penne vs. Waterson, Michelle returned to the ring and defeated Jessica Penne (10-2-0) via Submission (Armbar) in the fourth round.

Her current MMA record is 13-4-0