As the American UFC bantamweight champion approached Holm for the obligatory stare down, the challenger put her fist in Rousey’s face and she responded with a raised elbow to swat her away.
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The 34-year-old former world champion boxer delivered a stunning head-kick less than a minute into the second round, which paved the way for referee Herb Dean to call a halt to the fight after 0:59 of the frame. Rousey will be putting her bantamweight title belt on the line against an undefeated MMA opponent yet again on PPV and we’ve got the start time, how to watch UFC 193 live streaming online and more. For me it’s better to embrace the role of the heel and chase after being disliked. “Everything we worked on happened tonight”.
EA Sports announced today, Ronda Rousey will have yet another accolade added to her name as she takes her place as EA’s first female global cover athlete when EA UFC 2 launches in spring of next year. Rousey last defeated Bethe Correia in Correia’s native Brazil during UFC 190 in August, with the bout lasting just 34 seconds.
“I’ve been doing three title fights back to back in the last nine months, and while I’m in camp I’m pretty much all cut off from the Hollywood world”, Rousey said. “I lost the finals at the [judo] world championships when I wanted to be world champ like my mother [1984 champion AnnMaria De Mars]”, Rousey said.
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Holm, who trains at the Jackson Wink MMA Academy in Albuquerque, knows she presents a style contrast for Rousey.
She said: “This is a mission that was given to me”.
Even though the odds are against her, Holm maintains that she can win the fight. In just nine months of competition in the UFC, she has a split-decision victory over Raquel Pennington and a unanimous-decision win over Marion Reneau.
The rematch idea was something UFC president Dana White would also like to see.
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The historic event was the first time in the Las Vegas-based fight promotion’s history that two women’s fights headlined a pay-per-view event.
