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Since making a major splash onto the mainstream stage, Ronda Rousey has been busy. That may be an understatement. After defeating Liz Carmouche at UFC 157 Rousey has went on to coach The Ultimate Fighter and start her film career. Rousey will have roles in both the latest “Fast and Furious” project and “The Expendables 3”.
As Ronda Rousey and Liz Carmouche made history at UFC 157 by becoming the first women to ever fight inside the Octagon, Fuel TV had Rousey’s arch-rival Miesha Tate mic’d up cageside for her live play-by-play thoughts and analysis.
This is the fourth episode of The MMA Review Radio Show hosted by Jay Cee. The show features an interview with special guest Joe Orrey, who will be facing Brett Johns for the Pain Pit bantamweight title in the headline bout at Pain Pit Fight Night 6: New Breed this Saturday, March 2, at the Newport Centre in Newport, South Wales.
Fight week, blog week. UFC President Dana White gives us a peek behind-the-scenes at last weekend’s historic UFC 157 card headlined by the first ever women’s UFC bout with Ronda Rousey vs. Liz Carmouche. Here’s what you didn’t see take place at this groundbreaking event…
All of the UFC 157 fighters are facing medical suspensions with a few facing possible long term suspensions. UFC 157 was a historic event which featured the first women’s MMA fight in the UFC when Ronda Rousey successfully defended her women’s bantamweight title against Liz Carmouche.
The UFC 157 payroll was headlined by co-main event fighters Dan Henderson and Lyoto Machida. Henderson earned $250,000 for the split decision loss while Machida earned $200,000. The total disclosed payroll for the event was $1,173,050.
The early estimates for the number of UFC 157 PPV buys are in and it appears that the event was a huge success. I tell you why Ronda Rousey and Liz Carmouche deserve the majority of the credit for the success of the event.
On this week’s UFC TONIGHT, we have an exclusive interview with UFC President Dana White. Kenny Florian and Chael Sonnen preview the upcoming UFC ON FUEL TV 8: SILVA VS. STANN card, plus offer thoughts on Jose Aldo vs. Anthony Pettis, Anderson Silva’s next opponent and more.
The historic UFC 157: Rousey vs. Carmouche event has come and gone which means it’s time to get back to business. The rather lackluster main card on paper turned out to be fairly decent.
We had a big upset with Robbie Lawler knocking out Josh Koscheck. Urijah Faber unexpectedly finished the always tough Ivan Menjivar.
That didn’t take long. Ronda Rousey faced some serious adversity in her first UFC fight, and the critics were already coming for blood just minutes after the bout ended. However, these critics are keyboard warriors, one of them will face Rousey in her next fight later this year. Newly signed female bantamweight fighters Miesha Tate and Cat Zingano spoke with FUEL TV and gave their thoughts on Rousey’s performance.