UFC women's featherweight title: Cris "Cyborg" Justino vs. Tonya Evinger live round-by-round coverage stat : Los Angeles Times

Evinger gets her down again but Justino gets up again. Evinger goes for a takedown and gets Justino down momentarily. Justino gets back up. Justino lands a knee to the body and they break. Evinger goes down from the first punch.




In the third round, Cyborg landed a big knee against the fence that buckled Evinger to the ground and ended the bout. Cyborg won the women's featherweight title Saturday with a third-round TKO of former Invicta FC champion Tonya Evinger on the main card of UFC 214 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California. "Since Holly Holm fought for the 145-pound belt, I believe it would be a good fight," Cyborg said, per Mike Bohn of Rolling Stone. After years of drama between the UFC and Cyborg, it felt like this moment may never come. Ben Fowlkes of MMAJunkie gave credit to Evinger for surviving as long as she did:But that's all Evinger was doing: surviving.


Currently, the only two female featherweight fights the UFC has promoted this year have been title fights. The championship bout was one of three title fights at UFC 214 inside Anaheim's Honda Center. Cris Justino, left, captured the vacant UFC women's featherweight title that was stripped from the first champion of the division, Germaine de Randamie. 2 RelatedThe 32-year-old Justino has been dominating women's MMA since her career began in 2005, and a UFC title was really the only thing missing until Saturday. Justino (18-1) claimed the UFC's vacant featherweight championship on Saturday by defeating Tonya Evinger via TKO at 1:56 of the third round.


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