Newly crowned Strikeforce women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey (5-0) claims her fifth straight armbar submission victory after busting the arm of former champ Miesha Tate in last nights main event. Both women headlined the Strikeforce: Tate vs. Rousey show in Columbus, Ohio, capping off months of trash talk between the two fighters.
Below is a GIF of the final armbar for those who may want to “relive” the moment. Props to IronForgesIron.com. Check out the agony on Tate’s face after the jump too.
Photo via Dave Farra via Twitter
Newly crowned Strikeforce women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey (5-0) claims her fifth straight armbar submission victory after busting the arm of former champ Miesha Tate in last nights main event. Both women headlined the Strikeforce: Tate vs. Rousey show in Columbus, Ohio, capping off months of trash talk between the two fighters.
Below is a GIF of the final armbar for those who may want to “relive” the moment. Props to IronForgesIron.com. Check out the agony on Tate’s face after the jump too.
Zuffa’s other promotions is also holding an event this weekend. Fighters for this Saturday’s Strikeforce: Tate vs. Rousey event stepped on the scales at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio, in conjunction with this weekends Arnold Sports Festival. The Strikeforce women’s bantamweight title match was made official as champion Miesha Tate and challenger, […]
Zuffa’s other promotions is also holding an event this weekend.
Fighters for this Saturday’s Strikeforce: Tate vs. Rousey event stepped on the scales at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio, in conjunction with this weekends Arnold Sports Festival.
The Strikeforce women’s bantamweight title match was made official as champion Miesha Tate and challenger, Ronday Rousey, both hit the scales at 134.5 lbs for their bout.
The rest of the events nine bout card were also on weight for their respective bouts.
The event takes place tomorrow (March 3, 2012) at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio with the main card airing on Showtime and the prelim card on Showtime Extreme.
The full weigh-in results for Strikeforce: Tate vs. Rousey are as follows:
Main card (Showtime)
Women’s Bantamweight Championship bout: Miesha Tate (134.5) vs. Ronda Rousey (134.5)
Lightweight bout: K.J. Noons (156) vs. Josh Thomson (155)
Welterweight bout: Paul Daley (171) vs. Kazuo Misaki (169.5)
Middleweight bout: Bristol Marunde (184) vs. Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza (184.5)
Middleweight bout: Lumumba Sayers (185) vs. Scott Smith (186)
Preliminary card (Showtime Extreme)
Bantamweight bout: Alexis Davis (135.5) vs. Sarah Kaufman (135.5)
Lightweight bout: Caros Fodor (155.5) vs. Pat Healy (155)
Lightweight bout: Ryan Couture (154) vs. Conor Heun (155)
Welterweight bout: Roger Bowling (170) vs. Brandon Saling (170.5)
Former WEC champion, and likely UFC lightweight contender, Anthony ‘Showtime’ Pettis (15-2) earned his second straight victory in the Octagon as part of the opening main card bout for UFC 144.
Pettis would land a kick to the side of opponent Joe Lauzon’s head, sending the multi-“Fight Night” bonus winner to the mat at 81-seconds of the first round.
With the win, Pettis is being considered as the first opponent for the newly crowned UFC lightweight champ Ben Henderson. It would be a rematch of their WEC 53 title match from December 2010, which saw Pettis win a unanimous decision over Henderson.
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Former WEC champion, and likely UFC lightweight contender, Anthony ‘Showtime’ Pettis (15-2) earned his second straight victory in the Octagon as part of the opening main card bout for UFC 144.
Pettis would land a kick to the side of opponent Joe Lauzon’s head, sending the multi-”Fight Night” bonus winner to the mat at 81-seconds of the first round.
With the win, Pettis is being considered as the first opponent for the newly crowned UFC lightweight champ Ben Henderson. It would be a rematch of their WEC 53 title match from December 2010, which saw Pettis win a unanimous decision over Henderson.
Former K-1 champion, and current UFC heavyweight ‘The Super Samoan’ Mark Hunt (8-7) earned his third straight victory in the Octagon as part of UFC 144, finishing opponent Cheick Kongo with his first for a TKO victory at 2:11 of the first round.
We’ve got a couple of animated GIF’s of the bout if you missed last night’s action from the Saitama Super Arena, or simply want to relive the moment, we’ve got Hunt’s first knockdown of Kongo as well as the finish.
Former K-1 champion, and current UFC heavyweight ‘The Super Samoan’ Mark Hunt (8-7) earned his third straight victory in the Octagon as part of UFC 144, finishing opponent Cheick Kongo with his first for a TKO victory at 2:11 of the first round.
We’ve got a couple of animated GIF’s of the bout if you missed last night’s action from the Saitama Super Arena, or simply want to relive the moment, we’ve got Hunt’s first knockdown of Kongo as well as the finish.
UFC light heavyweight Ryan ‘Darth’ Bader earned a unanimous decision win versus former champ Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson in the co-main event of UFC 144 Japan. For a second in the first round it appeared that it may have been all over for Bader as Jackson picked up the “TUF” season 8 winner and slammed him down to the mat. Check out the Gif below.
“He got that good slam, you know , I knew he was waiting for something because he was a little to relaxed right there with his head. He was just waiting for me to knee the head and he caught my leg. He’s a strong dude, so he picked me up and slammed me right on my head and I was out of it honestly for a little bit. But, I just recovered and that’s what it’s about, just staying in there and battling and that’s what happened.”
UFC light heavyweight Ryan ‘Darth’ Bader earned a unanimous decision win versus former champ Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson in the co-main event of UFC 144 Japan. For a second in the first round it appeared that it may have been all over for Bader as Jackson picked up the “TUF” season 8 winner and slammed him down to the mat. Check out the Gif below.
“He got that good slam, you know , I knew he was waiting for something because he was a little to relaxed right there with his head. He was just waiting for me to knee the head and he caught my leg. He’s a strong dude, so he picked me up and slammed me right on my head and I was out of it honestly for a little bit. But, I just recovered and that’s what it’s about, just staying in there and battling and that’s what happened.”
The Ultimate Fighting Championship brought in a guest Octagon card girl for the promotions first trip to Japan in six years. Azusa Nishigaki will help longtime Octagon girl Arianny Celeste with her duties this Sunday as part of the UFC 144 event from the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan. Nishigaki is a former Miss […]
Azusa Nishigaki at UFC 144 – Photo by Esther Linn for MMAFighting.com
The Ultimate Fighting Championship brought in a guest Octagon card girl for the promotions first trip to Japan in six years. Azusa Nishigaki will help longtime Octagon girl Arianny Celeste with her duties this Sunday as part of the UFC 144 event from the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan. Nishigaki is a former Miss Japan finalist who was chosen by the promotion over a number of other candidates.
