It's SHOWTIME at 11pm EST. Catchweight (182 lb) bout: Joe "Diesel" Riggs vs. Louis "Handgunz" Taylor Lightweight bout: Ryan Couture (Randy's son, debuting) vs. Lucas Stark Women's 135-lbs. Tournament First Round: Carina Damm vs. Hitomi Akano Miesha Tate vs. Maiju Kujala
I don't know who to cheeer for at the women's tournament Carina Damm doesn't deserve to win, she isn't professional but she fights capoeira and I love capoeira I think I will cheer for Miesha Tate for the first place and Carina Damm for the second place :think
Tate has an amazing ass and chose to wear sheer white trunks in her dominant opening round victory over Kujala. For that alone she is my rooting interest for life. It's interesting that Akano is a friend of Megumi Fujii. They're both very technically gifted submitters. Ryan Couture needs to have his old man school him on dirty boxing, but he's obviously got the rest of the MMA game down (grappling and wrestling) based on the very little we saw. Carmouche vs. Schneider wasn't terrible, but wasn't a testament to the entertainment value of female MMA. By contrast, Tate vs. Akano was intriguing from the start. Each took a round, and then the third was another struggle for position with Akano showing heart and sub defense and Tate showing considerable strength in a dainty little package. Riggs has a lot of tricks in his bag - decent boxing, decent off his back, decent sprawl...not spectacular in any one area but a solid jack of all trades.
