{"id":105463,"date":"2026-06-04T06:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T06:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grizzliz.com\/media\/fighter\/puja-tomar\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T17:58:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T17:58:33","slug":"puja-tomar","status":"publish","type":"fighter_profile","link":"https:\/\/www.grizzliz.com\/media\/fighter\/puja-tomar\/","title":{"rendered":"Puja Tomar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Puja \u00ab\u00a0The Cyclone\u00a0\u00bb Tomar : la pionni\u00e8re indienne de l&rsquo;octogone<\/h2>\n<p>En octobre 2023, quand l&rsquo;UFC a annonc\u00e9 la signature de Puja Tomar, la MMA en Inde a chang\u00e9 de dimension. Pas simplement parce qu&rsquo;elle \u00e9tait la premi\u00e8re femme indienne \u00e0 int\u00e9grer la plus grande promotion du monde, mais parce que le chemin parcouru depuis Budhana, un village agricole de l&rsquo;Uttar Pradesh, est franchement vertigineux.<\/p>\n<h3>Des rizi\u00e8res de Muzaffarnagar \u00e0 l&rsquo;octogone<\/h3>\n<p>N\u00e9e le 5 d\u00e9cembre 1993 \u00e0 Budhana, Puja Tomar grandit dans une famille de paysans. Elle perd son p\u00e8re tr\u00e8s jeune et c&rsquo;est en partie ce deuil pr\u00e9coce qui la pousse, \u00e0 12 ans, \u00e0 quitter le foyer familial pour s&rsquo;entra\u00eener \u00e0 Meerut, \u00e0 45 km de l\u00e0. Elle commence par le wushu : discipline qu&rsquo;elle va ma\u00eetriser au point de devenir cinq fois championne nationale et de repr\u00e9senter l&rsquo;Inde aux Championnats du Monde Wushu. Le karat\u00e9 et le kickboxing viennent compl\u00e9ter ses bases. \u00c0 19 ans, en octobre 2013, elle fait ses d\u00e9buts professionnels en MMA sous la banni\u00e8re Super Fight League et r\u00e8gle l&rsquo;affaire en 24 secondes par KO.<\/p>\n<h3>La mont\u00e9e en puissance : ONE Championship et le circuit asiatique<\/h3>\n<p>La trajectoire de Tomar passe ensuite par l&rsquo;Asie du Sud-Est. Elle s&rsquo;installe au Soma Fight Club de Bali, en Indon\u00e9sie, et int\u00e8gre ONE Championship. Sur ce circuit, elle se frotte \u00e0 un plateau solide : Tiffany Teo la soumet \u00e0 l&rsquo;armbar en novembre 2017, Jihin Radzuan \u00e0 l&rsquo;\u00e9trangleur triangle en mars 2018. Mais c&rsquo;est surtout le TKO encaiss\u00e9 en janvier 2020 face \u00e0 Stamp Fairtex \u2014 alors reine dominante des poids paille ONE \u2014 qui souligne le niveau auquel Tomar \u00e9voluait d\u00e9j\u00e0. Elle perd, mais en un round face \u00e0 l&rsquo;une des meilleures du monde dans la cat\u00e9gorie.<\/p>\n<p>Elle rebondit dans le circuit Matrix Fight Night \u00e0 partir de 2021 : quatre victoires cons\u00e9cutives, dont un arr\u00eat de coin en juillet 2023 contre Anastasia Feofanova pour d\u00e9fendre sa ceinture MFN Strawweight. Quatre combats, z\u00e9ro doute : la \u00ab\u00a0Cyclone\u00a0\u00bb est pr\u00eate pour la grande sc\u00e8ne.<\/p>\n<h3>La marque dans les livres d&rsquo;histoire<\/h3>\n<p>Le 8 juin 2024, \u00e0 Louisville (Kentucky), Puja Tomar entre dans l&rsquo;octogone pour l&rsquo;UFC on ESPN 57 face \u00e0 la Br\u00e9silienne Rayanne dos Santos. Au terme de trois rounds tr\u00e8s disput\u00e9s, les juges rendent un verdict partag\u00e9 (30-27, 27-30, 29-28) en sa faveur. Elle devient la premi\u00e8re Indienne \u2014 homme ou femme \u2014 \u00e0 remporter un combat dans l&rsquo;UFC. Le retour au village quelques jours plus tard ressemble \u00e0 une f\u00eate nationale : \u00e7a m\u00e9ritait bien un peu d&rsquo;honneurs pour une gamine partie \u00e0 12 ans avec ses gants et ses r\u00eaves.<\/p>\n<p>La suite est plus difficile. Le 22 mars 2025, lors de l&rsquo;UFC Fight Night 255 \u00e0 Londres, Shauna Bannon la soumet \u00e0 l&rsquo;armbar \u00e0 3:22 du deuxi\u00e8me round \u2014 dans un combat o\u00f9 l&rsquo;Irlandaise a su retourner la situation apr\u00e8s avoir encaiss\u00e9 un high kick d\u00e9vastateur. Puis le 29 mai 2026, lors du Road to UFC Season 5 \u00e0 Macao, la Chinoise Shi Ming la choke en un peu plus de trois minutes par arm-triangle au round 1.<\/p>\n<h3>Profil et style<\/h3>\n<p>Tomar combat en poids paille (52 kg) et mesure 1m45 pour 150 cm d&rsquo;allonge. Son style part de ses bases en wushu et percussion debout : elle utilise volontiers les side kicks et les coups de pied au corps pour g\u00e9rer la distance. Sa principale lacune reste le sol, o\u00f9 elle a encaiss\u00e9 cinq de ses six d\u00e9faites par soumission sur l&rsquo;ensemble de sa carri\u00e8re. Son record global au moment d&rsquo;\u00e9crire ces lignes s&rsquo;\u00e9tablit \u00e0 9 victoires (dont 6 par KO) et 6 d\u00e9faites, avec un bilan UFC de 1-2.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sources-article\"><strong>Sources :<\/strong> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Puja_Tomar\">Wikipedia<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ufc.com\/athlete\/puja-tomar\">UFC.com<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/cagesidepress.com\/2026\/05\/29\/road-to-ufc-season-5-macau-day-2-full-results\/\">CageSidePress \u2013 Road to UFC 5 r\u00e9sultats<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Puja Tomar, surnomm\u00e9e \u00ab\u00a0The Cyclone\u00a0\u00bb, est la premi\u00e8re femme indienne \u00e0 signer \u00e0 l&rsquo;UFC et \u00e0 y remporter un combat (juin 2024). Poids paille, 9-6 en pro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":101386,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"fighter_category":[69981],"fighter_tag":[],"class_list":["post-105463","fighter_profile","type-fighter_profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","fighter_category-womens-strawweight"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Puja Tomar - Biographie MMA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Biographie compl\u00e8te de Puja Tomar\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.grizzliz.com\/media\/fighter\/puja-tomar\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Puja Tomar - 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