Here's the fight video of Tabatha Ricci vs Tecia Pennington from last night's UFC show in St. Louis. This fight is at Strawweight. Tabatha is 29 years old from Sao Paulo, Brazil. She owns her own private gym in Los Angeles with boxer boyfriend Callum Keith Walsh. Her UFC record is 4-2. Tecia is 34 years old. Of course she is married to UFC Bantamweight Champion Raquel Pennington and they train together in Colorado Springs, CO. Tecia is 9-6 in the UFC. She has been off since 2022 on pregnancy leave. I thought this fight was very evenly matched as both fighters are equally ineffective. Tecia throws plenty of punches but most of them miss. She's always been like that. Tabatha is very similar. She's supposed to have a decent ground game but doesn't. They both move quickly but neither does enough to win fights. I scored round one 10-9 for Tabatha mostly for a last second takedown. Round two was funny because Tabatha kept trying to take Tecia down on the fence but Tecia defended well. But you don't get scoring credit for defense. So I scored it 10-9 for Tabatha for cage control. Ecch!. I wanted to score it 9-9 for both being ineffective. Tecia won round three 10-9. But I thought she lost the first two rounds so she needed a finish. So I scored the fight 29-28 for Tabatha though I thought the fight was a draw. The result of this fright was going to depend on how the judges score round two. Two of the judges scored it for Tabatha and the third scored it for Tecia. So Tabatha won by split decision. It could have just as easily gone the other way and that would have been fine. Neither fighter is very good. Enjoy the video!
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