During an interview with ESPN, UFC female bantamweight contender Raquel Pennington revealed some interesting information.
Pennington, who will be sidelined for much of 2017 after should…
During an interview with ESPN, UFC female bantamweight contender Raquel Pennington revealed some interesting information.
Pennington, who will be sidelined for much of 2017 after shoulder surgery, was a sparring partner of Ronda Rousey’s in her training for UFC 207.
“I can’t really talk about how sparring went or what we did. Ronda asked me to sign a non-disclosure agreement, so I did,” she said. “All I can say is the fact I was able to put in work with her and that it was solid work. I can’t say too much more than that.”
Pennington added that she hopes Rousey fights again, saying “I would hope she wouldn’t finish her career like that. Obviously, I’d say that about anybody. Any athlete, you wouldn’t want to see them go out like that. It’d be good to see her pick her head up and get in there and get another fight in.”
“Rocky” has won four in a row, including a November victory over Miesha Tate. She is now 9-5 overall in her career and 6-2 with the UFC.
On Saturday night, a legend was defeated and decided to surprise the MMA community by announcing her MMA retirement live inside the Octagon during her post-fight interview with longtime UFC commentator and post-fight int…
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On Saturday night, a legend was defeated and decided to surprise the MMA community by announcing her MMA retirement live inside the Octagon during her post-fight interview with longtime UFC commentator and post-fight interviewer Joe Rogan.
Women’s MMA legend Miesha “Cupcake” Tate lost via unanimous decision to a fellow Women’s MMA veteran, Raquel “Rocky” Pennington, with the judges showing scores of 30-27, 30-27 and 29-28 after three rounds.
Featured above are video highlights of the Tate-Pennington bout from Saturday night’s history-making UFC 205: Alvarez vs. McGregor event at Madison Square Garden in New York City. You can watch her MMA retirement announcement as part of her complete post-fight Octagon interview with Joe Rogan by clicking here.
For complete UFC 205 results from Madison Square Garden, click here.
It has been a roller coaster of a year for Miesha Tate.
She bought her 2016 calendar with UFC President Dana White actively encouraging her to retire. She surprisingly received a title shot a few months later, then took the belt from Holly Holm i…
It has been a roller coaster of a year for Miesha Tate.
She bought her 2016 calendar with UFC President Dana Whiteactively encouraging her to retire. She surprisingly received a title shot a few months later, then took the belt from Holly Holm in dramatic fashion at UFC 196 with a rear-naked choke in the final frame.
A three-match with Ronda Rousey was teased, but never came to fruition, which then saw her pitted against Amanda Nunes. A series of issues with other fighters saw her fall into the main event of one of the company’s biggest shows, UFC 200. That seemingly fortunate turn was undone as she unceremoniously dropped the title in the first round.
To cap it all off, she was attached to fight former protege Raquel Pennington, who trained under her on The Ultimate Fighter season 18, at UFC 205 in a critical fight for her career, in a no-win situation. A victory would do little more than keep her in current spot, while a loss would send her into a career free fall.
Tate, for better or worse, wasn’t going to allow that to happen.
Pennington came out hard early, popping her jab well and clipping Tate repeatedly in the process. After moving into the clinch, however, Pennington started working for a guillotine choke, which Tate somehow defended by kicking off the cage and flipping upside down repeatedly. Tate would eventually break free, score a takedown and work for back control in the clinch, but Pennington showed impressive strength, holding Tate off the ground and pinning her to the cage until the end of the round.
The second round started off the same way, with Pennington throwing hands with confidence and Tate struggling to keep up at range. Tate once again absorbed hands but weathered the punishment to get into the clinch. The fighters traded control of the center of the cage, with Tate landing harder shots and Pennington working volume.
Tate opened the third by pulling guard and working for submissions, transitioning back and forth from armbar to triangle. Pennington defended, but Tate continued working to turn the fight into a grappling match for minutes on end, with mixed success. They returned to their feet with a minute left, with Pennington turning up the volume late, nailing Tate with punches and closing the fight with some frenetic ground-and-pound.
The final horn sounded with the outcome fairly clear. While Tate was game, she had little to offer offensively. The scorecards reflected that, with Pennington taking a unanimous decision to the tune of 29-28, 30-27 and 30-27.
With her days as a contender functionally done and few intriguing opponents available, Tate told Joe Rogan that her days as a competitor are done. “I’m announcing my retirement…I’ve been doing this for over a decade,” she said. “It’s not my time anymore. It’s the future’s time.”
That may or may not prove true with time. Plenty of fighters have retired, only to get back into the cage after a lengthy vacation.
Either way, the women’s bantamweight division is lesser now than it was a day ago. While Tate was never a spectacularly gifted or athletic fighter, her savvy and grit made her one of the most enduring fighters in the sport.
Before Eddie Alvarez and Conor McGregor do battle in the main event of the biggest stage in mixed martial arts (MMA) history (as McGregor attempts to become the first fighter in UFC history to hold two titles simultaneously), and Tyron Woodley attempts to defend his welterweight title for the first time in his championship career,
Before Eddie Alvarez and Conor McGregor do battle in the main event of the biggest stage in mixed martial arts (MMA) history (as McGregor attempts to become the first fighter in UFC history to hold two titles simultaneously), and Tyron Woodley attempts to defend his welterweight title for the first time in his championship career, watch the official UFC 205 weigh-ins here live with us:
You can also check out the full official weigh-in results that took place earlier this morning here:
Event: UFC 205: “Alvarez vs. McGregor” Date: Sat., Nov. 12, 2016 Location: Madison Square Garden in New York, New York Broadcast: Pay-Per-View (PPV)
MAIN CARD (pay-per-view, 10 p.m. ET)
Lightweight champ Eddie Alvarez (154.6) vs. featherweight champ Conor McGregor (154.4) – for lightweight title
Champ Tyron Woodley (169.8) vs. Stephen Thompson (169) – for welterweight title
Champ Joanna Jedrzejczyk (114.4) vs. Karolina Kowalkiewicz (114.4) – for strawweight title
Yoel Romero (185.6) vs. Chris Weidman (185.8)
Donald Cerrone (170.4)+ vs. Kelvin Gastelum (n/a)+
Raquel Pennington (135.8) vs. Miesha Tate (135.6)
PRELIMINARY CARD (FS1, 8 p.m. ET)
Frankie Edgar (145.4) vs. Jeremy Stephens (145.8)
Michael Johnson (155.8) vs. Khabib Nurmagomedov (155.8)
Tim Boetsch (185.4) vs. Rafael Natal (185.4)
Vicente Luque (170.6) vs. Belal Muhammad (170)
PRELIMINARY CARD (UFC Fight Pass, 7 p.m. ET)
Thiago Alves (162.6)* vs. Jim Miller (157.6)* – 163-pound catchweight
Liz Carmouche (134.8) vs. Katlyn Chookagian (135)
* – Alves missed the 156-pound limit and was fined 20 percent of his purse. Because the commission required them to be within five pounds of each other, Miller added weight to make the bout with Alves official. Miller wasn’t fined, and Alves can weigh no more than 173 pounds on fight night for what is now a 163-pound catchweight bout. + – Fight is off after Gastelum opted not to weigh in
The most stacked card in history is here. Blowing previous mega-cards UFC 200 and UFC 202 out of the water in terms of potential excitement, high-level competition, big names, and high stakes, UFC 205 will be the promotion’s inaugural foray into New York City. The blockbuster event will emanate Saturday November 12, 2016, from Madison Square
Blowing previous mega-cards UFC 200 and UFC 202 out of the water in terms of potential excitement, high-level competition, big names, and high stakes, UFC 205 will be the promotion’s inaugural foray into New York City. The blockbuster event will emanate Saturday November 12, 2016, from Madison Square Garden in New York, NY.
The headliner will see the biggest draw in the sport today, Conor McGregor, seeking to make history. The current undisputed featherweight champion, the ‘Notorious’ one will attempt to dethrone current lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez. If he is successful, he will become the first simultaneous two-division title-holder in the history of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. The hard-nosed Alvarez will be making his first defense of the title in the money fight of his choosing. He last appeared in July, when he ripped the belt from Rafael dos Anjos.
The main card also features two other title fights. First, Joanna J?drzejczyk will look to defend her title for a fourth time when she goes toe to toe with fellow Polish striker Karolina Kowalkiewicz. Then welterweight champ Tyron ‘The Chosen One’ Woodley will square off with consensus number one contender Stephen ‘Wonderboy’ Thompson.
The rest of the main draw will see New York native Chris Weidman lock horns with Cuban wrestling dynamo Yoel Romero and former bantamweight champion Miesha Tate warring with Raquel Pennington.
Read on for a breakdown of every scrap on the main card.
Ahead of this Saturday’s UFC 205: Alvarez vs. McGregor mega-event in New York, UFC has begun rolling out their usual “Fight Week” content.
Featured above is the “Inside The Octagon” segment focused on this Saturday’s …
https://youtu.be/DnmUMK4bGY4
Ahead of this Saturday’s UFC 205: Alvarez vs. McGregor mega-event in New York, UFC has begun rolling out their usual “Fight Week” content.
Featured above is the “Inside The Octagon” segment focused on this Saturday’s Welterweight bout between Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone and Kelvin Gastelum, as well as the Women’s Bantamweight fight between former champion Miesha Tate and Raquel Pennington.
UFC 205: Alvarez vs. McGregor takes place on Saturday, November 12th from the world-famous Madison Square Garden arena in New York City.
Join us here at MMANews.com on 11/12 for live round-by-round results coverage of the entire UFC 205 pay-per-view.
It has been a roller coaster of a year for 