EdsonBarboza def. Paul Felder, unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
Joe Lauzon def. TakanoriGomi, TKO (Round 1, 2:37)
Prelims on Fox (6 p.m. ET)
Tom Lawlor def. Gian Villante, knockout (Round 2, 0:27)
Jim Miller def. Danny Castillo, split decision (28-29, 29-28, 30-27)
Ben Saunders def. Kenny Robertson, split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28)
Bryan Caraway def. Eddie Wineland, unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 30-27)
Prelims on UFC Fight Pass (4:15 p.m. ET)
James Krause def. Daron Cruickshank, submission (Round 1, 1:27)
Andrew Holbrook def. Ramsey Nijem, split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28)
Elizabeth Phillips def. Jessamyn Duke, unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
Zak Cummings def. Dominique Steele, TKO (Round 1, 0:43)
Next up? UFC 190 on Saturday.
Wake up, because it’s feeding time for Ronda Rousey, who is set to thrash Bethe Correia. Past that, a slew of Brazilian veterans are set to take on up-and-comers who are looking to climb over them.
So what topics are worth discussing heading into fight night? What should you look out for? Find out here!
UFC 189 is over and done with, but the promotion is just getting started with a five-week stretch packed with seven events. Snuggled in there is UFC 190 on August 1. The full card is as follows:
Main Card (PPV)
Ronda Rousey vs. Bethe Correia&nbs…
UFC 189 is over and done with, but the promotion is just getting started with a five-week stretch packed with seven events. Snuggled in there is UFC 190 on August 1. The full card is as follows:
With an extended main card, fans get to look forward to seven fights on pay-per-view. The preliminary card is very strong as well, with numerous established veterans and compelling prospects set to appear.
There is plenty to look forward to, so why not take a look forward to the UFC 190 main card? Read on, fight fans!
Of all the trash talk in MMA, Bethe Correia’s latest zinger is perhaps the strangest.
Speaking at a Q&A session in Goiania, Brazil, ahead of UFC Fight Night 67, Correia fielded a variety of fan questions, answering them with equal parts serio…
Of all the trash talk in MMA, Bethe Correia‘s latest zinger is perhaps the strangest.
Speaking at a Q&A session in Goiania, Brazil, ahead of UFC Fight Night 67, Correia fielded a variety of fan questions, answering them with equal parts seriousness, humor and hyperbole.
MMAFighting.com’s Guilherme Cruz was on site to translate some of Correia‘s responses, and one in particular stands out. The Brazilian, who faces UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey at UFC 190 in August, believes she only needs two punches to finish the longtime women’s champ.
Only one of those punches will actually send Rousey to the land of the unconscious, though. The other one serves a different purpose entirely.
“I will only need two punches to beat her,” Correia said. “The first punch will be to knock that mole off her face. I want to take that mole out of there. And the second punch will be to knock her out. I need two punches.”
The 9-0 fighter is certainly not lacking confidence heading into the biggest fight of her life, eh?
Since coming to the UFC in December 2013, Correia has posted a 3-0 record with one stoppage. She eked out a split-decision victory over Julie Kedzie in her debut, then posted more impressive wins back-to-back against Jessamyn Duke and Shayna Baszler.
Looking at this competition, one thing becomes clear: Rousey is on a different planet, and Correia will have to perform perfectly at UFC 190 if she wants to sport a shiny new belt by night’s end.
That said, Correia clearly isn’t shying away from the challenge. She believes she can knock Rousey out, and she also believes she’ll be fine if the fight goes to the canvas—the place where Rousey drags her foes before ruthlessly finishing them.
“I have a good team around me, good jiu-jitsu and judo trainers, a good team working on my striking, and I will be able to defend her armbars,” Correia said at the Q&A. “I won’t fall into her game and make the same mistakes the other fighters who fought her before did. I will make her fight my fight.”
When the lights go down August 1, we will see. Many women have spoken a nice game leading up to a fight with Rousey, and the champ has tossed them all back to the curb with ease.
Can Correia be the first person to change that? Personally, I don’t think so. I see this one ending via first-round submission like so many of Rousey‘s fights, and I’m not sure what Correia can do to change that.
What do you think? Can the Brazilian pull off the upset? Sound off below and we’ll discuss this title fight.
Current UFC women’s bantamweight title challenger Bethe Correia just crossed the line.
In a sport like MMA, a lot—damn near anything—is fair game when it comes to promoting a fight. Say you want to smash your opponent’s head in. Make …
Current UFC women’s bantamweight title challenger Bethe Correia just crossed the line.
In a sport like MMA, a lot—damn near anything—is fair game when it comes to promoting a fight. Say you want to smash your opponent’s head in. Make fun of them. Slam their fighting skills.
But don’t say what Correia did.
Speaking with Brazilian outlet Combate about her upcoming tilt with Ronda Rousey at UFC 190, Correia made a comment that officially crossed from “fair game” to “absolutely not.”
I want to knock her out, show to everyone that she is a lie. She wants to stand up with me, let’s see. I want to humiliate her and show the word she has no MMA. She is focused on movies, books. I am much stronger, I come from a developing country, where people are struggling to survive, not to starve. It is very different from her life of reality. Under pressure, she is proving weak. When her mom put pressure on her, she ran away from home. When she lost, it was because of drugs. That’s not a superhero. She is not mentally healthy, she needs to take care of herself. She is winning, so everybody is around her cheering her up, but when she realizes she is not everything that she believes she is, I don’t know what might happen. I hope she does not kill herself later on (laughs).
Correia seems to be referring to some struggles Rousey outlined in her recently released book, My Fight, Your Fight.
Really, Correia bringing up Rousey‘s past personal demons isn’t the end of the world. Recalling some less-than-desirable choices Rousey made on her own is fair game in the world of fight promotion, in my opinion.
It’s that last sentence that is unacceptable.
Rousey‘s father committed suicide when she was just eight years old, making the suicide comment completely off limits. There is a slight chance that Correia didn’t know this about Rousey‘s past, but even if the UFC champ didn’t have a deep, personal and tragic connection to suicide, this is an area one should avoid at all costs.
Suicide—and the conditions that lead to it—are simply off limits. You don’t joke about something that claims almost 1 million lives per year, oftentimes devastating and shattering families in the process.
Defeating Rousey will say more than enough about Correia‘s merits as a professional fighter without the need for a distasteful comment.
She’ll make headlines and be remembered for pulling off one of the most shocking upsets in MMA history should she emerge victorious at UFC 190. After this latest sound bite, however, don’t be surprised to see Rousey come out harder and more focused than ever.
A Correia victory was already pretty unlikely in the eyes of most fans and critics. Now, the Brazilian challenger may have made her situation even worse.
Ronda Rousey continues cutting promos at the expense of her UFC 190 opponent, Bethe Correia. Appearing on The View, the UFC women’s bantamweight champ succinctly said “I’ve got 99 problems, but a Bethe ain’t one” (h/t FoxSports.com’s Damon Martin).
The…
Ronda Rousey continues cutting promos at the expense of her UFC 190 opponent, Bethe Correia. Appearing on The View, the UFC women’s bantamweight champ succinctly said “I’ve got 99 problems, but a Bethe ain’t one” (h/t FoxSports.com’s Damon Martin).
The line, of course, is taken from the infamous (and totally not safe for work) Jay-Z song “99 Problems,” and it plays on the Portuguese pronunciation of Correia‘s first name as “bech.” Oddly, however, as the interview progressed, Rousey shifted gears to be more respectful of Correia, steering the interview away from her previous bouts and talking up the Brazilian as a serious threat. She also reiterated her unwillingness to bury the proverbial hatchet after fights and discussed how she carries grudges indefinitely.
While Rousey first achieved MMA stardom through her bitter rivalry with Miesha Tate in Strikeforce, the champ hasn’t been at the center of much controversy since joining the UFC. Outside of her tumultuous stint as a coach on The Ultimate Fighter Season 18, past opponents Liz Carmouche, Alexis Davis, Sara McMann and Cat Zingano have all been respectful of Rousey, and have received respect back.
Correia, however, has stormed her way to a title shot with constant bombardments of smacktalk and beatdowns of Rousey‘s friends and training partners. While many are bearish regarding her chances (Rousey is currently sitting as high as a -1500 favorite, according to BestFightOdds.com), her mic work has made the fight with Rousey an oddly compelling one.
Rousey and Correia face off at UFC 190 on August 1 in Rio deJaneiro, Brazil. Stick with Bleacher Report for more news on the fight as it breaks.
If the circulating reports have any truth to them, it looks like Ronda Rousey will make her next title defense against Bethe Correia in the main event of UFC 190 on August 1st. According to my local gambling expert, Vegas oddsmakers should list Rousey as something around a kajillion-to-one favorite over her Brazilian opponent out of the gate, a betting line which will only continue to swing in Rousey’s favor as fight night approaches.
This is not what you’d call a gambler’s paradise, folks, so much so that I asked the top statistician I know to punch up some numbers and find me a handful things more likely to occur than a Bethe Correia win at UFC 190. Here’s what he came up with…
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By CP Reader Ramsey O’Shea
If the circulating reports have any truth to them, it looks like Ronda Rousey will make her next title defense against Bethe Correia in the main event of UFC 190 on August 1st. According to my local gambling expert, Vegas oddsmakers should list Rousey as something around a kajillion-to-one favorite over her Brazilian opponent out of the gate, a betting line which will only continue to swing in Rousey’s favor as fight night approaches.
This is not what you’d call a gambler’s paradise, folks, so much so that I asked the top statistician I know to punch up some numbers and find me a handful things more likely to occur than a Bethe Correia win at UFC 190. Here’s what he came up with…
Crazier things have happened, right? Anthony Pettis was being listed as high as a 5-to-1 favorite over Rafael Dos Anjos until homeboy From Angels laid a royal ass-whipping on him last weekend. And like Pettis, Weidman has also spent more time sidelined with injury than defending his title since he won it back in 2013.
Vitor Belfort, on the other hand, is a (Jesus) juiced-up ball o’ crazy who once sent Dan Henderson into orbit with an uppercut, so if he’s able to land on Weidman early, it wouldn’t be impossible to think that he could put the champ away. While Correia possesses some solid power of her own, Rousey is arguably just as dangerous on the feet nowadays (and most certainly quicker), which all but negates Correia’s only chance at victory.
The Entirety of Rousey vs. Correia Being Viewable in a Vine — 5 to 1
Now this is one I’m strongly considering. Cat Zingano was the #1 ranked bantamweight heading into her fight with Rousey (and not in a “Dennis Siver is suddenly top 10″ kind of way, either), and she last 14 seconds. Bethe Correia is currently ranked #7 (which, I guess?), which means she should last approximately….mathmathmath….two seconds. Hell, they’ll even be able to fit Joe Rogan’s verbal humiliation of Correia after the fight is over into that Vine as well.
Being Diagnosed with Prostate Cancer: 6 to 1
Here are the facts:
1. There were around 220,000 cases of prostate cancer diagnosed in the US alone last year.
2. Prostate cancer is second only to lung cancer in terms of commonality.
3. More than a third of prostate cancer cases are diagnosed in men aged over 75 years.
Here are some more facts:
1. Ronda Rousey has only been listed as anything *less* than a 6-1 favorite once in her UFC career (against Sara McMann at UFC 170).
2. It was almost unanimously agreed upon that Correia dropped the first round of her fight against Baszler.
3. Shayna Baszler fights like a 75 year old man.
The connections are all there if you’re willing to look for them, is all I’m saying.
Being Picked on The Price is Right – 36 to 1
Bethe may not stand a snowball’s chance in Hell against Rousey, but seeing her perform her patented victory dance next to a bewildered/emasculated Drew Carey? I’d bet a dollar on that coming to fruition.
What I wouldn’t bet a dollar on, on the other hand, would be the fight I mentioned earlier.
Fast and Furious 7 Topping Furious 6 – 12,800 to 1
The point is, no matter how fast and/or furious Fast and Furious 7 is, it can in no way be more fast and furious than Fast and Furious 6 was. The bar has simply been set too high furious. That being said, the mere inclusion of Rousey’s name in the cast list makes Fast 7 a more solid bet than anything which doesn’t include Rousey’s name (the phrase “Bethe Correia: Bantamweight Champion” for instance).
Dying From Contact with Hot Tap Water: 5,005,564 to 1
First off, I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking that this joke has gone on for far too long.
“I was willing to play along with your increasingly hyperbolic attempts at explaining how screwed Bethe Correia is,” you said to yourself, “But hot tap water, CP? Really?! THIS IS WHY YOU NEED CROWDFUNDING TO SURVIVE.”
And you’re right, you really should consider donating to CP’s Patreon, but also, I argue that the idea of Ronda Rousey vs. Hot Tap Water is no more ludicrous than the idea of Rousey vs. A Man, or Rousey vs. Laila Ali for that matter. All three matchups have literally the exact same chance of being booked, so there. #PointGryffindor
Secondly, do not — I repeat, DO NOT — overlook how dangerous a glass of tap water can be. We all saw the effect it had on those aliens in the 2002 documentary Signs, and now you’re adding HEAT into the equation? Goodnight, Irene. Which isn’t even to mention the fact that tap water is not physically capable of possessing arms, which gives it a huge advantage in this completely fictional matchup against the current champ.
Am I saying that hot tap water would have a better chance against Ronda Rousey than Bethe Correia? Not at all. I’m saying that I’d sooner bet on old Irene up there croaking after burning her tongue than I would on Bethe beating Ronda. Not that I feel the need to defend these numbers, mind you, as I can assure you that they were given to me by a top numbers man.
In conclusion, Ronda Rousey will win. Bethe Correia will not. Eat more tomatoes.
Of all the trash talk in 
