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Jordan's 'Fierce Savage' of MMA deals blows to gender constraints / 32AF942
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It's no mystery why Jordanian Lina Fayyad has been nicknamed "Fierce Savage" -- watching as she lands successive blows in the cage, it's clear she is poised to take mixed martial arts by storm. With her long maroon hair and small frame, she cuts an unusual figure in the world of MMA, and perhaps even more so within the country and region from which she hails, where women are virtual strangers to the sport. "At the beginning, I heard a lot of criticism that continues until today," the 33-year-old tells AFP from the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, where she is undergoing and overseeing training boot-camps. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES