Amanda Nunes of Brazil became the next in the line of succession Saturday night with a first-round knockout of Miesha Tate in the headlining bout of UFC 200 at T-Mobile Arena, the organization’s first event in the building.
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In the main event, Amanda Nunes submitted Miesha Tate to take the UFC women’s bantamweight belt.
Nine current or former UFC champions are on the biggest pay-per-view show of the summer. Thanks to Jon Jones’ positive drug test, Tate suddenly finds herself in the incredible position of fighting in the main event at the landmark UFC 200.
UFC has released the latest edition of UFC 200 Embedded.
Lesnar made his heralded return a success after five years away from the UFC by basically laying on Hunt throughout the third round, while Jose Aldo and Frankie Edgar might as well as had boxing gloves on with Aldo landing enough strikes to turn Edgar’s face blood red. She’s the champ. What she accomplished a few fights ago, you can’t disrespect that. “I’m right back in the game”.
The UFC found a replacement at just two days’ notice in Brazilian former middleweight champion Anderson Silva, who has previously served a suspension for a doping violation.
Brock Lesnar celebrates after defeating Mark Hunt during their heavyweight mixed martial arts bout at UFC 200, Saturday, July 9, 2016, in Las Vegas.
“I’ve beaten everyone that they’ve put in front of me in the UFC Octagon and on The Ultimate Fighter…I’m 7-0 and I don’t know what else I have to do”.
Nunes said, “I’m the champion”. And after beating Cat Zingano, who holds knockouts over Tate and Nunes, for her fourth straight win, it’d be hard to tell her no. But with Rousey still waiting in the queue, the division’s top contenders will have to deal with the fact that their title shots will depend greatly on her status.
Tate never recovered and, failing to defend herself on her feet, tried to take the fight to the ground.
“She is going to be the next UFC champion”, Nunes said of her girlfriend.
The 41-year-old Silva (33-8) stepped up to fight the UFC’s light heavyweight champ after Jones was ruled out Wednesday night. This girl has so many talents, and she’s gonna be back in the cage soon and she’s going to show everybody she’s gonna be the next champion of the UFC.
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Title contenders T.J. Dillashaw, Kelvin Gastelum and Julianna Pena won clear, entertaining decisions on the undercard. “I feel she’ll be back by the end of this year or early next year”.
