Former MMA fighter Gina Carano is in a category all her own.

I think it's called "Hot beats everything else".

She hasn't had a fight since Cris "Cyborg" Santos destroyed her at Strikeforce: Carano vs. Cyborg back on August 15th, 2009.

But she is still the most popular female mma fighter on this list.

Gina was born on April 16th, 1982, in Dallas County, Texas.

The woman that was once the "Face of Women's MMA." played basketball, volleyball and softball before getting into MMA. She even led the Trinity Christian High School in Las Vegas to a state title.

Gina started out in Muay Thai where she had a record of 12-1-1.

She appeared in the first ever sanctioned female MMA bout in Nevada against Leiticia Pestova.

Part of Gina's popularity is her good looks that have enabled her to branch out and draw in more fans for female MMA.

Besides fighting in the steel cage, Gina has appeared in "American Gladiators"as Crush, the Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 video game as Natasha Volkova, and she was in the fight film Blood and Bone starring Michael Jai White.

Gina also appeared in the 2005 cult film "Ring Girls" along with fellow female MMA fighters LaTasha Marzolla, Ardra Hernandez, Lisa King and Christine Toledo.

Along with Lisa King, she appeared as a mentor in the 2007 Oxygen series "Fight Girls".

In 2009, Gina Carano was ranked number 16 in Maxim's Hot 100 list.

Her current MMA record is 7-1-0.

There were rumors that she would be returning to the steel cage in 2011, but that didn't pan out.

She focused all her concentration on her role in Steven Soderbergh's "Haywire" with Antonio Banderas, Michael Douglas, Ewan McGregor, Channing Tatum and Michael Fassbender.



UPDATE:

Coming up for Gina is not a trip to the steel cage, but a role in John Stockwell's film "In The Blood" which will be (from what I understand) a feminine version of "Taken".

And it's possible she will show up in Fast & Furious 6 with Dwayne Johnson...aka The Rock.



UPDATE:

In September 2012, Producer Adi Shankar (Dredd, The Grey, Machine Gun Preacher) announced that Gina had signed on for the lead role in a film that is supposed to be the female version of The Expendables.



UPDATE:

Is it possible that Gina may return to the cage?

There are rumors that UFC President Dana White wants Gina to come back and fight Ronda Rousey.