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Liz Carmouche is glad that she can put the circumstances surrounding her UFC release behind her. Carmouche wasn’t surprised to be given her walking papers from the UFC despite coming off a flyweight title fight. What did throw “Girl-Rilla&#…
Liz Carmouche is glad that she can put the circumstances surrounding her UFC release behind her. Carmouche wasn’t surprised to be given her walking papers from the UFC despite coming off a flyweight title fight. What did throw “Girl-Rilla” off was the way in which she was notified of her release. Carmouche was brought out […]
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It didn’t take long for Liz Carmouche to find a new home. Fight fans were surprised to hear the news of Carmouche’s UFC release. “Girl-Rilla” competed against Ronda Rousey in the first-ever women’s bout in UFC history. She…
It didn’t take long for Liz Carmouche to find a new home. Fight fans were surprised to hear the news of Carmouche’s UFC release. “Girl-Rilla” competed against Ronda Rousey in the first-ever women’s bout in UFC history. She went 4-2 in her last six outings and is coming off a women’s flyweight title bout against […]
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Liz Carmouche has found herself a new home. After being unexpectedly released by the UFC earlier this month, MMA Junkie reports Carmouche has inked an exclusive contract with Bellator MMA. No date or opponent has been announced for Carmouche’s debut as of this writing. However, Bellator president Scott Coker has teased that a women’s flyweight […]
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Liz Carmouche has found herself a new home. After being unexpectedly released by the UFC earlier this month, MMA Junkie reports Carmouche has inked an exclusive contract with Bellator MMA.
No date or opponent has been announced for Carmouche’s debut as of this writing. However, Bellator president Scott Coker has teased that a women’s flyweight tournament could be in the works for 2020, so it’s possible Carmouche’s first fight could be in the opening round of the tournament.
Carmouche, who competed for the UFC at 125 and 135 pounds, fought inside the Octagon for nearly seven years, facing Ronda Rousey in the first-ever women’s fight in UFC history. She was released while actually doing promotional work for the Las Vegas-based mixed martial arts (MMA) organization in Washington D.C.
In a subsequent interview, Carmouche noted that she was released because she kept beating the UFC’s young prospects.
“Since I’ve been with the organization, I had a lot of difficulty getting fights. … It’s because it seems like all the opponents I’ve been offered have turned down all the fights,” she explained. “… Constantly we’re just told everyone is saying no. And the reason they [UFC] gave is they’re really trying to build up the division and every female they’ve brought into the 125 pound division, I’ve been able to beat them.
“So it’s not really giving them the opportunity to build up the division the way they wanted to. So unfortunately, for the well-being of the division, they had to cut me to give me an opportunity to go elsewhere and get the fights I need.”
What do you think about Carmouche now signing with Bellator MMA?
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Free agent and former UFC mainstay Liz Carmouche and the Bellator flyweight champion Ilima-Lei Macfarlane fully agree that Carmouche would fit in well with Bellator and that a matchup between the two would make sense. After being released from the UFC …
Free agent and former UFC mainstay Liz Carmouche and the Bellator flyweight champion Ilima-Lei Macfarlane fully agree that Carmouche would fit in well with Bellator and that a matchup between the two would make sense. After being released from the UFC last week, Liz Carmouche naturally began considering what lies in her MMA future. One […]
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Liz Carmouche wanted to know why she was released from the UFC, and she got her answer. Liz Carmouche competed in the very first UFC WMMA fight, challenging Ronda Rousey for the UFC women’s bantamweight championship. In some light, it is apropos that h…
Liz Carmouche wanted to know why she was released from the UFC, and she got her answer. Liz Carmouche competed in the very first UFC WMMA fight, challenging Ronda Rousey for the UFC women’s bantamweight championship. In some light, it is apropos that her final UFC fight was also for a world title. In both […]
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One notable piece of news that emerged last week was that former UFC title challenger Liz Carmouche was cut from the company. Carmouche had only just fought for the women’s flyweight title in a losing attempt against Valentina Shevchenko at UFC Uruguay back in August. She had won four of her last five fights going […]
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One notable piece of news that emerged last week was that former UFC title challenger Liz Carmouche was cut from the company.
Carmouche had only just fought for the women’s flyweight title in a losing attempt against Valentina Shevchenko at UFC Uruguay back in August. She had won four of her last five fights going into that bout.
But what was even more surprising was that she was cut while doing promotional work for the UFC in Washington D.C. She expanded on what happened in an appearance on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show on Monday:
“It’s been interesting,” she said. “I was out there in Washington D.C. so I had a lot of people that worked for the UFC just express their embarrassment and surprise, everything that occurred, just apologize. I just had to keep reassuring them, ‘You guys didn’t do anything, I have no hard feelings against you.’
“So it’s been interesting just to have so many differences. It seems like the communication between the head and the body were cut off. I just experienced that first hand.”
The reason why she was cut is even more bewildering. According to Carmouche, it was because she kept beating prospects in the flyweight division. In the process, the UFC couldn’t build up the division the way they wanted to:
“Since I’ve been with the organization, I had a lot of difficulty getting fights. … It’s because it seems like all the opponents I’ve been offered have turned down all the fights,” she explained. “… Constantly we’re just told everyone is saying no. And the reason they [UFC] gave is they’re really trying to build up the division and every female they’ve brought into the 125 pound division, I’ve been able to beat them.
“So it’s not really giving them the opportunity to build up the division the way they wanted to. So unfortunately, for the well-being of the division, they had to cut me to give me an opportunity to go elsewhere and get the fights I need.”
In a way, this isn’t shocking. After all, Colby Covington recently claimed the UFC was ready to cut him despite being on a win streak.
However, what do you make of Carmouche’s revelation?
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