Filed under: Featured Videos , News , UFC , Videos NEW YORK – For many fans, UFC women’s bantamweight Liz Carmouche will go down in history as the first UFC opponent of Ronda Rousey . Carmouche won praise as a tough challenge for the then-champ despite coming up short . But for her, there’s another piece of history she wants to capture as one of the first female fighters to compete inside Madison Square Garden in New York. One of the first two, to be exact. Carmouche (10-5 MMA, 2-3 UFC), whose family is from New York, gets the show started on Saturday when she fights Katlyn Chookagian (8-0 MMA, 1-0 UFC) on the UFC Fight Pass-streamed prelims of UFC 205, which precede the FS1 prelims and pay-per-view main card. “I just want ‘Fight of the Night’ – that’s the hope,” Carmouche told MMAjunkie.
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Liz Carmouche: Nothing compares to debut vs. Ronda Rousey, but UFC 205 still huge – MMA Junkie