The featherweight bout between Papamoa's Faith Van Duin and Canadian Charmaine Tweet was pulled from the Invicta FC 10 fight card due to medical concerns.

The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation pulled the fight ahead of the December 5 scheduling.

Faith Van Duin has risen through the MMA ranks since she started fighting two years ago.

The fight would have been Faith's promotional debut in the Invicta cage, but the single mother of two says the move has stopped her from pushing ahead.

'I am hoping to fight sometime in February,” Faith says, with details of that fight still being finalised.

Faith is the only NZ woman signed to Invicta – the largest women's MMA promotion in the world.

She has been training to get to where she is for two-and-a-half years.

'I didn't realise taking classes in Jiu Jitsu would lead me to become a professional MMA fighter,” says Faith.

'The reason I became an MMA fighter was because I saw Ronda Rousey versus Meisha Tate and thought ‘I can do that'.

'I didn't think about MMA as fighting, I just knew I wanted to take Ronda Rousey on.”

Prior to her scheduled December 5 fight, Faith had been fundraising to get her and a trainer to America for the fight.

The money raised will now go towards her February fight and future training camps.