Aug. 15, 2025

208: Straight to the Point with Michelle Waterson

Show Notes

Michelle Waterson-Gomez is an American former mixed martial artist, actress and stuntwoman who has competed across various organizations including Strikeforce and the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). She is the former Invicta FC Atomweight Champion. Between 2013 and 2014, she was ranked the No. 1 women's atomweight fighter in the world. Waterson-Gomez holds a black belt in American freestyle karate and has also trained in wushu, Muay Thai, Kickboxing, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, boxing and wrestling. Her rise to fame began as a contestant on the Muay Thai-themed Fight Girls reality show on the Oxygen television network. She was subsequently featured as one of the fighters in the MTV/MTV2 reality show Bully Beatdown. Transitioning from ring and cage fighting to screen fighting, her first role was in the film MacGruber (2010). Since then she has appeared in music videos for Megadeth, Thor (2011) The Lone Ranger (2013), The Signal (2014) and Olivia Cooke’s stunt double, Independence Day: Resurgence, and most recently opposite Tom Hardy in Gareth Evans’ Havoc (Netflix).

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Cabin shootout scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe01kfiQJOg

Cabin shootout scene part 2 (Michelle speargun scene): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTYlG5mWAm8

Cabin shootout scene Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2pldBKNsco

Michelle shotgun scene (at :31): https://youtu.be/HqrJ99X-9Ys?si=pxpt1y9dszy_mCcd

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Raiders of the Lost Ark patreon poster give away: https://youtu.be/mhEbnLDRyzY?si=Qsd7gc_sHi2VTOpV

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