COLUMBUS, Ohio – There are truckloads of cliches to describe how Liz Carmouche is likely feeling the day after losing for the first time. The one that mattered to her after the fight was the image in her head that she had won – even if it was brief.
Carmouche took Strikeforce women’s welterweight champion Marloes Coenen perhaps as close to the brink of defeat as she could have without getting her hand raised, dominating the champ throughout the second and third rounds with a punishing ground attack – only to fall victim to a Coenen triangle early in the fourth.
COLUMBUS, Ohio – There are truckloads of cliches to describe how Liz Carmouche is likely feeling the day after losing for the first time. The one that mattered to her after the fight was the image in her head that she had won – even if it was brief.
Carmouche took Strikeforce women’s welterweight champion Marloes Coenen perhaps as close to the brink of defeat as she could have without getting her hand raised, dominating the champ throughout the second and third rounds with a punishing ground attack – only to fall victim to a Coenen triangle early in the fourth.