Ronda Rousey Wins First UFC Women's Title
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BY PAULA HUNT
ANCHOR CANDICE AVILES
Rear naked chokes, neck cranks, left jabs, and armbars – all in all, it was a dream night for Ronda Rousey.
In the first official women’s Ultimate Fighting Championship, Rousey defeated Liz Carmouche [car-moosh] in the women’s bantamweight title fight in front of a sellout crowd in Anaheim. It took Rousey less than five minutes to submit Carmouche, but it wasn’t as easy as it sounds, reports SB Nation.
“. . . it required Ronda digging deep to survive a tight face crank applied by Carmouche early in the fight. Carmouche came away from that attempt with a perfect mold of Rousey's teeth in her forearm.”
Jezebel writes Rousey’s victory confirms her place as the face of UFC -- and demonstrates the legitimacy of women’s mixed martial arts.
“... we can all appreciate Rousey's primetime Saturday night victory as both an individual triumph of all-around badassery, and a move towards gender equality in a sport whose fanbase contains some of the broiest bros in all of brodom.”
Sports Illustrated's report focuses on losing combatant Liz Carmouche, a former Marine and the UFC’s only openly gay fighter.
“If Carmouche would have lost immediately, she would have only reinforced the notion -- well-founded -- of Rousey's dominance . . . But by engaging Rousey . . . Carmouche provided enough drama to bring a the crowd to its feet, gasping, with each maneuver that justified not just her's, but her gender's capabilities in the Octagon.”
Perhaps Carmouche should consider herself lucky -- Rousey has dislocated at least two prior opponents' elbows by armbar – a judo move her mother taught her.
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