Strikeforce now has a new women’s bantamweight champion. Ronda Rousey defeated Miesha Tate on Saturday with her signature armbar submission securing the victory in a highly anticipated battle. The fight took place in Columbus, Ohio and during the build up we saw these two women talk a lot of trash about each other. There was definitely no love lost between these two female warriors and all the talking was left to one side when they actually got the chance to fight each other on the night.

Tate began the fight all guns blazing but was eventually taken to the ground where Rousey made her first attempt at an armbar submission. Amazingly Miesha got out of the submission and wound up taking Ronda’s back, Rousey then managed to get out of that spot and get the fight back up to the feet. Shortly after this Rousey floors Tate with a hip toss and gains herself the mount position, Miesha attempted to spin out of that position which in turn gave up her back. Ronda seized this opportunity to lock in another armbar which this time proved too much, giving viewers and fans a graphic view of Miesha Tate’s arm being bent completely out of place leaving her with no option but to tap.

The new champion Ronda Rousey has defeated all five of her opponents via Armbar since becoming a pro MMA fighter which I think is pretty amazing. I am sure we will see Miesha Tate back on the title hunt as soon as the arm injury has healed, but in the meantime it looks likely that we will see Rousey defend her new title against Sarah Kaufman who defeated Alexis Davis earlier that night in a bloody war.

Check out this post-fight recap…

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Jay Cee – The MMA Review

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