R. Rousey (photo) managed another armbar submission. Photo: Josh Hedges/UFC
He couldn't even get out. When expected Ronda Rousey was facing the biggest challenge of her career, the bantamweight champion simply had her most impressive performance. In just 14 seconds, Ronda ran over Zingano cat and once again submitted an opponent with her traditional armbar, something she hadn't done since December 2013.
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Right at the start of the fight, Zingano went all out on Ronda and tried to land a flying knee on her rival. The attempt was immediately thwarted by Rousey, who applied the takedown, managed a great transition and went for the submission, which was completely indefensible.
After the fight, in an interview given in the octagon, Ronda took the opportunity to point out her only remaining challenge in the division: the Brazilian Beth Pitbull. "Bethe Correia, she is undefeated, I would like to take that away from her!”, said the champion, under the watchful eye of the Brazilian, who was watching the fight at the Staples Center, in Los Angeles (USA).
Now Ronda Rousey He has an undefeated record of eleven wins in eleven fights in MMA. All of the blonde's victories were achieved by knockout or submission and ten of them were in the first round. Now, if we add up all the fights in Ronda's career, the champion spent exactly 25m02s in the cage, a time that is just two seconds longer than a single fight for the belt.
In a tense fight, world boxing champion debuts with a narrow victory
H. Holm (photo) debuted in the UFC with a victory, but he was not excited. Photo: Reproduction
It wasn't the way Holly holm expected, but at least the former world boxing champion debuted in Ultimate with victory. Before Rachel Pennington, Holm went through difficult times and came out on top in the UFC 184 co-main fight only by the judges' decision.
At the beginning of the fight, Holm began imposing his boxing and avoiding Pennington's takedowns. With greater reach, the Jackson's MMA athlete managed to prevent her opponent from getting closer and worked at medium and long distances with quick combinations. At the end of the partial, however, Raquel managed to balance her actions a little and respond to some of Holly's attacks.
In the second round, Holm continued to deny her rival's takedowns, but was surprised at times by attacks from Pennington, who even connected with a front kick. However, the former boxer maintained her dominance in striking and, controlling the distance and with good movement, secured the partial.
Confirming its trend of evolution in combat, Rachel Pennington achieved his best moment in the third round, when he connected his most forceful blows and managed to achieve a knockdown.
At the end of the three rounds, two judges gave victory to Holly holm (29-28 and 30-27) and one saw Rachel Pennington as the winner (28-29), which gave Holm the triumph by split decision. Now, “The Preacher's Daughter”, as she is known, has eight wins in eight fights as a professional.
After the duel, Holm admitted that his performance left something to be desired and justified his performance because he felt the pressure of his debut in the octagon. “It was a new experience, so there was a lot of pressure and a lot of things were said. I didn’t feel like I could live up to that,” he told official UFC commentator Joe Rogan, still in the Octagon.
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Check out the UFC 184 results:
MAIN CARD
Ronda Rousey finished Zingano cat with an armbar at 14s of R1;
Holly holm derrotou Rachel Pennington in the judges' split decision (29×28, 28×29, 30×27);
Jake ellenberger finished Josh koscheck with a reverse rear naked choke at 4m20s of R2
Alan Jouban defeated Richard Walsh by knockout at 2:19 of R1;
Tony Ferguson finished Gleison Tibau with a rear naked choke at 2m37s of R1;
PRELIMINARY CARD
Roan Jucão submitted Mark Muñoz with a rear naked choke at 1m40s of R1;
Kid Yamamoto x Roman Salazar – no content (without result) involuntary finger in the eye;
Tim means derrotou Dhiego Lima by technical knockout at 2m17s of R1;
Derrick Lewis defeated Ruan Potts by technical knockout at 3m18s in R2;
Valmir Bidu; defeated James Krause via split decision (29×28, 28×29, 29×28);
Masio Fullen defeated Alexander Torres via split decision (29×28, 28×29, 29×28);
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