Watch The Closest Ronda Rousey Has Come To Defeat In An MMA Fight

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Ronda Rousey has a pretty solid rep as an invincible Terminator, but it only takes one small mistake in mixed martial arts to end up face down on the canvas. Just ask former pound-for-pound great Georges St-Pierre, who was defeated in 2007 by massive +700 underdog Matt Serra. Serra caught GSP with a right hook behind the ear and next thing we knew, we had a new champ.

Ronda Rousey hasn’t fallen yet, but she came close to being tapped out in her first UFC fight by a very intimidated Liz Carmouche. Ronda threw Liz with one of her patented judo throws, but didn’t quite finish it properly, allowing Carmouche to get her leg over Rousey’s hip and climb onto her back.

From there, Carmouche locked up a brutal neck crank on Rousey, twisting her neck and pushing her jaw back. Here’s how Ronda described the moment:

“I dislocated my jaw, broke my sinuses, was coughing. When her hand went across my jaw, my mouth was ripped open. That’s the only fight I got a bruise in. The worse-case scenario is you break your neck, and my neck was past the place where it shouldn’t have gone.”

Rousey managed to shake Carmouche off her back and win the fight, but it was a close thing. The crank could have broken Rousey’s jaw, or could have slid down to her neck and turned into a choke. Interestingly enough, Carmouche was also a +700 underdog, just like Matt Serra. Holly Holm? She sits even higher, at +825.

The odds may be saying Holly Holm has no chance, but they also said Liz Carmouche didn’t, either. She obviously did have a chance; you’re looking at it in GIF form right now. Holm is a durable boxer from one of the best camps in MMA who knows how to punch and knock people out. Anyone who says there’s no way she can win doesn’t know enough about mixed martial arts. Because all it takes is one punch, or one miscalculation, and the belt will change hands.

(GIFs via Imgur)

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