Round two on the UFC 297 co-main function commences and Raquel Pennington will come out swinging to start the round. Mayra Bueno Silva returns fire and afterwards forces the clinch. She pushes ‘Rocky’ up against the cage and begins landing some knees. The fighters break through the clinch and start exchanging bombs during the pocket. Which was a wild sequence. Pennington having a great blend now. She doubles up on her jab and Silva is harm.

3 percent of her significant strike tries. Her fifty five % accuracy, overall, will be the eighth highest in UFC Ladies’s history. So that begs the question, who is a lot more keen on taking the fight into the mat?

Rocky Functioning to separate Mayra’s arms then goes back again to hammerfisting whilst keeping a forearm throughout her throat. Bueno Silva attempting to position for your triangle but Rocky is possessing none of it.

It’s anybody’s guess how this contest will go, but Raquel Pennington continues to be fighting because 2009 being an beginner, and 2012 as a pro. She has eleven bouts both as an newbie or for a contestant on TUF and bears the distinction of having concluded Kim Couture in her quite 1st pro bout.

Back again while in the clinch now and Yet again Pennington will allow Silva to lock up that standing ninja choke. Raquel does break away but has become backed up from the fence. Knees from both of those females from the position. They separate and Mayra Bueno Silva goes for a takedown. She will be able to’t get it and it is actually Raquel Pennington who winds up on top. She lands some solid punches from the position ahead of the horn Seems to finish Raquel Pennington vs Mayra Bueno Silva the round.

Just before prolonged, the submission Obviously wasn’t taking place, but Pennington burned off a couple minutes of clock time looking for it. When she at last Enable go with the choke try, she dropped some bombs from best place, serving as being a minor exclamation point to her victory.

Because of the character with the positive examination, the UFC didn’t punish her and remains to be supplying her this shot in the vacant title tonight.

A staple with the Women of all ages’s bantamweight division for ten years, Pennington is currently on the top run of her profession, getting rattled off five straight wins.

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If she can negate Silva's offense and stifle her output, she could win this fight over the class of 5 rounds.

Her previous a few bouts have all finished by using submission, including one more than Holly Holm, even when it was afterwards overturned to the NC.

Castillo: She’s an exceedingly explosive fighter, but who is explosive within the 20th minute? It’s tough to say, and that goes back again to the beginning the place I mentioned Rocky’s working experience — she’s been in these fights.

Both fighters fought with the 5 rounds. The judges made the decision the winner on their scorecards, which adjudged Raquel Pennington as the winner and The brand new Gals's bantamweight champion.

At 35 yrs outdated, Pennington’s accrued higher-level experience is unparalleled during the UFC, coupled along with her cardio, that means that this fight could possibly go to the judges’ selection and favor Raquel Pennington.