UFC 170: UFC Women's Bantamweight Championship fight Rousey vs McMann

I have wanted to write a UFC report for a while, not really that into UFC so will probably be a case of just writing about the fights I actually care about for the time being. This fight will see Sara McMann is challenging Ronda Rousey for the UFC women’s championship. This fight is set for 5, 5 minute rounds.

McMann is currently at this stage undefeated with 7 wins under her belt, she is an Olympic silver medalist in wrestling which she won at the 2004 Olympic games in Athens and has been a professional fighter since 2007, I think wrestling is a huge part of the UFC base, it will be interesting to see how she manages to utilize it in this fight.

Ronda Rousey is the current UFC women’s champion and is the self proclaimed “heel” in UFC, stating that everyone wants her to fail and that she will continue to disappoint them. She has won all her fights at this stage and has beaten 7 of her opponents in round 1 and to top that all her wins at this stage have come from using the arm bar submission. She won a bronze medal in judo at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing China. A good contrast to the Wrestler opponent, the Judo should also provide an interesting challenge for McMann.

TALE OF THE TAPE

Ronda Rousey (c)

Born: USA

Age: 27

Height: 5’7”

Weight: 135

Reach: 66”

Sara McMann

Born: USA

Age: 33

Height: 5’6”

Weight: 135

Reach: 66”

Round 1

Both ladies come out swinging but McMann ends up backed against the cage, however just as she fights out Rousey puts her back on the cage wall, throwing the odd knee into the side of McMann, Rousey knees McMann in the gut by the liver area and McMann drops down to the floor and the ref stops the fight there.

At 1 minute 6 seconds into the fight Rousey retains her Bantamweight women’s belt and for the 1^st time not winning by the arm bar. Well that wasn’t much of a fight really; entrances and announcements were longer than the actual fight, a bit gutting really, had hyped myself up quite a bit for this fight too, bet the paying crowd were a bit miffed too. Looking like her next opponent will be Cat Zingano who is the current ranked #1 in the women’s division after Rousey, so may be worth a watch when that fight happens.

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