Here's the fight video of Rose Namajunas vs Amanda Ribas from last night's UFC show in Las Vegas. This fight is at Flyweight. Rose is 31 years old from Milwaukee and she trains at 303 Training Center in Denver. She's a two time Strawweight champ moving up to Flyweight. Her UFC record is 10-4. She's on a two fight losing streak. These days she's fighting more defensively and her results depend on if her opponent falls for that trick. You saw what happened when Carla Esparza didn't buy into it. Amanda is 30 years old from Varginha, Brazil. She trains with her father and at American Top Team in Coconut Creek, FL. Her UFC record is 7-3. She is ranked at Strawweight and Flyweight but I would prefer she stay at Strawweight. Her big problem in this fight is she is not able to get close enough to land effective strikes. And every attempt at a takedown backfired on her and Rose ended up in top position. As I said, Rose is playing it safe these days so once she got in top position, she just sat on her. So for the most part, Rose won the fight with ground control. She didn't advance her position. Her corner was yelling at her to sit on Amanda. Should ref Jason Herzog have stood them up? Maybe but he didn't do that and the judges are going to give Rose those rounds where she has ground control. So I scored the fight 49-46 for Rose and two of the judges scored it the same. The third judge scored it 48-47. So Rose won by unanimous decision. The fight was disappointing as there wasn't much action. Rose playing things safe worked on this occasion. She talked about fighting Maycee Barber who she knew when Maycee was young. Maycee is from Colorado. Enjoy the video!
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