After arising brief in her first title alternative, Virna Jandiroba bounced again with a dominant efficiency towards Tabatha Ricci within the UFC Vegas 115 co-main occasion.
It solely took Jandiroba 40 seconds to safe her first takedown of the combat, although she couldn’t hold Ricci on the mat for lengthy. Nonetheless, Ricci wouldn’t keep on her toes for lengthy after the one-time title challenger took her down close to the fence and instantly jumped on her again.
Ricci defended the place, stopping Jandiroba from doing any injury or fishing for submissions, however the spherical clearly went to Jandiroba on the scorecards.
Jandiroba secured one other takedown within the opening moments of spherical two, settling into Ricci’s guard within the middle of the Octagon. After spending a majority of the stanza on her again, Ricci labored her manner again up with 70 seconds to go. Sadly, she couldn’t muster any actual offense earlier than being put down simply earlier than the top of the spherical.
It was extra of the identical within the third, although this time, Ricci was in high place. With Jandiroba already having two rounds within the financial institution, the Brazilian had no downside being on her again for a bit. In fact, that didn’t final lengthy as Jandiroba popped up with relative ease and went proper again to work.
With time working out, Ricci tried to ramp up her offense, however by then, it was too little, too late.
Official Outcome: Virna Jandiroba def. Tabatha Ricci by way of unanimous choice (30-27, 29-28, 29-28).
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