Saturday night was UFC 157: Rousey vs. Carmouche. This event made UFC history for featuring the first women's fight ever in the UFC. The UFC has come a long way over the years and the fact that their first ever women's UFC fight headlined a PPV that also featured a couple of future UFC Hall of Famers is a good step in the right direction for the company.
I will be giving my predictions for what I think the fighters' next fight should be following today's event at the bottom of each fight.
UFC 157 Results:
Main Card on PPV:
Women's Bantamweight Championship: Ronda Rousey (C) (7-0) vs. Liz Carmouche (8-3)
Rousey defeats Carmouche via submission (armbar) at 4:49 of round 1.
Seven fights, seven first round victories by armbar...She's that DAMN good. Rousey had what was probably the toughest fight of her career at this point in what was her longest fight of her career. Carmouche gave her some trouble early in the round and almost submitted the champion Rousey. Eventually Rousey was able to get the fight to the ground and gain top position where she eventually secured the armbar and made UFC history.
The win by Rousey really gives women's MMA hope in the UFC. Not many fighters start their career as dominant as she had and if she is able to keep this up, the UFC will be able to build around her. Carmouche was a very game opponent and with a couple of wins could get herself back for her a rematch against the champion. Very good debut for women's MMA in the mecca of the sport.
Up next for Rousey: Winner of Miesha Tate vs. Cat Zingano
Up next for Carmouche: Loser of Tate vs. Zingano
Machida defeats Henderson via split decision (28-29, 29-28, 29-28).
Well this fight wasn't what I wanted. In 15 minutes there were two takedowns and about 10-15 strikes landed that did damage. In my opinion there wasn't a real clean winner. If it was more acceptable to give 10-10 rounds I think the second round could have been a 10-10 and I had Machida winning the first and Henderson winning the third. The second round was too close to pick either fighter in my opinion. I had the fight a draw in all honesty and would rather see the two fight someone else before either is to get a title shot.
Because Machida was the winner he will be getting the title shot against either Jones or Sonnen next. While Henderson could be one win away from a title shot because that wasn't really a loss I'd love to see him drop down in weight. He lost to Anderson Silva a few years ago and I think that right now he's the only guy that makes sense to challenge Silva. Chris Weidman seems to be the next guy to challenge Silva, but I don't think he's ready and would much rather see Henderson drop down to his natural weight and challenge the champion.
Up next for Machida: Winner of Jon Jones vs. Chael Sonnen
Up next for Henderson: Anderson Silva
Bantamweight: Urijah Faber (27-6) vs. Ivan Menjivar (25-10)
Faber defeats Menjivar via submission (rear-naked choke) at 4:34 of round 1.
Faber is able to take the rematch seven years in the making that most people never knew actually happened. Over seven years ago Faber and Menjivar met way before either of them ever fought in the Octagon. Faber won the fight by disqualification after Menjivar illegally kicked Faber while he was a downed opponent.
This entire fight looked like the Urijah Faber of old. "The California Kid" put on a show in this fight showing good wrestling, ground and pound and a great submission to end the fight. Menjivar struggled with Faber's wrestling and was unable to really get Faber off of him. When he was finally able to create space and get the fight standing Faber was able to jump on the back of Menjivar and maneuver his way to a standing rear-naked choke that ended up finishing the fight.
Up next for Faber: Eddie Wineland
Up next for Menjivar: Brian Bowles
Welterweight: Court McGee (14-3) vs. Josh Neer (33-13-1)
McGee defeats Neer via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27).
I told myself coming into this fight that McGee hadn't fought anyone as good as Neer so he would probably struggle. I also thought the weight cut might make things difficult for me. Then McGee goes out and makes it look easy against Neer for 15 minutes.
McGee was able to use crisp boxing and some late takedowns to make sure that at the end of the fight his hand was raised. McGee was able to land a liver kick that was followed up with a hook to the body that really hurt Neer in round 1. That was the closest the fight ever came to being finished.
Late in the fight Neer had his moments, but for the majority of the last two rounds there was still more McGee than there was Neer. The takedowns in the third really helped end all possibilities of Neer edging out any kind of win. Impressive performance by McGee as I see him winning 30-27.
Up next for McGee: Tyron Woodley
Up next for Neer: Probably cut by the UFC
Lawler defeats Koscheck via TKO (punches) at 3:57 of round 1.
Couldn't have called the fight any better than I did. Koscheck's gameplan from the start was to use his wrestling and clinch game to keep Lawler from landing any flush shots to end the fight. For the first three and a half minutes Koscheck was doing everything that he wanted until Lawler was able to land two knees while up against the cage.
After that Koscheck just didn't seem all that aware of what was going on and looked a little out. Lawler followed up those knees with some ground and pound from the top to finish the fight. Koscheck appeared upset that the fight was ended so early, but he wasn't defending himself all that well and it could have gotten a lot worse for him.
Up next for Lawler: Winner of Siyar Bahadurzada vs. Dong Hyun Kim
Up next for Koscheck: Martin Kampmann
Preliminary Card on FX:
Heavyweight: Brendan Schaub (9-3) vs. Lavar Johnson (17-7)
Schaub defeats Johnson via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27).
Up next for Schaub: Todd Duffee
Up next for Johnson: Nandor Guelmino
Lightweight: Michael Chiesa (9-0) vs. Anton Kuivanen (17-6)
Chiesa defeats Kuivanen via submission (rear-naked choke) at 2:29 of round 2.
Up next for Chiesa: Bobby Green
Up next for Kuivanen: George Sotiropoulos
Featherweight: Dennis Bermudez (10-3) vs. Matt Grice (15-5)
Bermudez defeats Grice via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28).
Up next for Bermudez: Mike Brown
Up next for Grice: Nam Phan
Lightweight: Sam Stout (19-8-1) vs. Caros Fodor (7-3)
Stout defeats Fodor via split decision (28-29, 29-28, 29-28).
Up next for Stout: Jamie Varner
Up next for Fodor: Probably cut by the UFC
Preliminary Card on Facebook:
Welterweight: Kenny Robertson (12-2) vs. Brock Jardine (9-3)
Robertson defeats Jardine via submission (kneebar) at 2:57 of round 1.
Up next for Robertson: Nah-Shon Burrell
Up next for Jardine: Probably cut by the UFC
Welterweight: Jon Manley (7-2) vs. Neil Magny (8-1)
Magny defeats Manley via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 29-28).
Up next for Magny: Winner of Marcelo Guimaraes vs. Lim Hyun-Gyu
Up next for Manley: Probably cut by the UFC
Catchweight (175.8 lbs): Nah-Shon Burrell (9-2) vs. Yuri Villefort (6-2)
Burrell defeats Villefort via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 30-27).
Up next for Burrell: Kenny Robertson
Up next for Villefort: Probably cut by the UFC
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