The Final Preventing Championship returned to us tonight, March 23, 2024, for UFC Vegas 89, taking place stay from the UFC Apex in Enterprise, Nevada.
Headlining the occasion was a girls’s strawweight bout between no. 7 ranked Amanda Ribas (13-5) and former two-time UFC strawweight champion Rose Namajunas (12-6).
Ribas got here into the bout off a spinning wheel kick knockout over Luana Pinheiro again in November, following a TKO defeat to no. 4 ranked Maycee Barber final June.
Namajunas however, following her break up determination defeat to Carla Esparza the place she misplaced her title again in Might of 2022, had since moved as much as 125 lbs this previous September, shedding the bout to no. 3 ranked Manon Fiorot (UD).
Proceed studying to see how our strawweight foremost occasion of the night went down:
Official Consequence: Rose Namajunas def. Amanda Ribas through unanimous determination (49-46, 49-46, 48-47)
After a forwards and backwards opening two minutes on the ft Ribas secures a takedown, Namajunas of which will get proper again to her ft. The 2 get again to putting, earlier than Ribas goes for a head throw. Although she secures it, she rolls via too far and finally ends up on backside for the ultimate 90 or so seconds of the spherical.
Namajunas’ boxing regarded good via the early levels of spherical two. Ribas went for one more head throw, almost getting her again taken earlier than she rolled for a kneebar. Namajunas escapes it and spends the remaining couple minutes of the second in prime place.
Ribas secured a physique lock journey takedown within the third, Namajunas of which instantly reversed the place as the 2 received again to their ft in a scramble. Namajunas was urgent her into the fence, the place she was tripped again right down to the mat. Ribas took her again within the last seconds of the spherical after reigning down some good elbows from half guard.
Every Namajunas and Ribas regarded good on the ft via the opening half of the fourth spherical, every of them touchdown good strikes onto the opposite, earlier than Namajunas secured a takedown halfway via it and settled in Ribas’ guard, ending the spherical in prime place.
Ribas opened up the fifth and last spherical with a heavy spherical kick to the physique. The rest of the spherical was spent on the ft, Namajunas touchdown some good punches upstairs, and Ribas touchdown good punches and kicks.
Following defeat in her flyweight debut, a struggle she was injured in, Rose Namajunas picks up her first win at 125 lbs tonight at UFC Vegas 89.
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