Ilima-Lei MacFarlane came out of the professional gates in a memorable way, laying waste to a fighter whose greatest strength in the cage seemed to be foolhardy willingness. It wasn’t her fault. Katie Castro, dubbed quickly the "Soccer Mom" as her helpless beat down in the Xplode Fight Series cage went viral, happened to be MacFarlane’s MMA debut. That’s just how things shook out. It was a 10-second ass kicking that everybody — including actual soccer moms, full in their powers of empathy — could watch in mock horror on YouTube.
Still, MacFarlane came out it with a name for dishing out such a resonating dose or reality.