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Will Ronda Rousey earn another first round armbar win over Liz Carmouche at UFC 157? Will Carmouche pull off the upset? Or will the fight play out in some other way?
RICH HANSEN, MMATORCH COLUMNIST
Liz Carmouche isn't a particularly talented fighter. Of all the fighters she's defeated, not one of them currently has a record above .500. The only good fighters she's faced, she's lost to. And now she's a credible challenge to Ronda Rousey? Um... No. Look. Is it possible she catches Ronda with an overhand or an uppercut or something? Yeah, sure. It's possible. I mean, Columbus found The New World, right?
But to answer the questions posed before me here:
Yes
No
No
FRANK HYDEN, MMATORCH CONTRIBUTOR
I think the fight goes into the second round. Rousey has to prove that she's not just a one-time sensation. She's like a young pitcher in baseball. It's easy to tear it up when no one knows about you, but now there's tape on you and the second time around won't be quite so easy. Having said that, though, I still fully expect Rousey to win in impressive fashion.
BRAD WALKER, MMATORCH COLUMNIST
I think Rousey fakes the armbar attempt and attempts something new. Carmouche is too damn strong to do that to, and it probably wouldn't work. It's the first women's fight in UFC history, I truly believe Liz would let her arm be ripped off before tapping out to an armbar. I expect to see this end in the first but via choke. If Carmouche pulls off the upset she's going to f*** up Dana White's plans worse than Bigfoot Silva did.
TONY BECERRA, MMATORCH CONTRIBUTOR
Six fights, six victories, all via arm bar. The past is a good predictor of the future and I'm sure Rousey will attempt the arm bar early in the fight, now will she pull it off? I'd like to think that Carmouche has studied enough film to expect it and prepare to defend it, that said, six have tried and six have failed to stop Ronda Rousey from locking it in.
ERIC HOBAUGH, MMATORCH CONTRIBUTOR
This fight will end with another first round armbar victory for Ronda Rousey.
ANWAR PEREZ, MMATORCH COLUMNIST
It's going to go the same way every Ronda Rousey fight goes. Arrive, get submission win, leave. Rousey is a machine, and kudos to Carmouche on her way to this opportunity, but still, I can't see Rousey getting beat on a stage as a big of this. Rousey with the obvious submission.
JASON AMADI, MMATORCH COLUMNIST
Liz Carmouche managed to get herself submitted by Marloes Coenen. Her strengths play right into Rousey's strenghts, and quite frankly, she's nowhere near the athlete Ronda Rousey has proven to be.
Carmouche is getting tapped, probably in the first round.
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