UFC 200 Results: 7 Big Talking Points
2. The Revolving Door Of Women's Bantanweight Champions Continues
The women's bantamweight division looks to be heading toward a similar situation that the middleweights have been facing since Anderson Silva was dethroned. Without a dominant champion to stand atop the division - in this case Ronda Rousey - the belt is now being passed around like a hot potato.
With her win over Rousey, Holly Holm had convinced casual fans that she was an elite fighter, but Miesha Tate quickly dispensed with that fiction when she choked her out for her first world championship in three tries. But as she'd already suffered several defeats in her career, Tate was obviously a beatable champion, a fact that Amanda Nunes proved with violent ease at UFC 200.
From the opening bell the champ didn't have much to offer her more active challenger, who showed great movement and timing with her strikes. She hurt Tate early, and unfortunately for the popular star she was never able to recover.
The fight was on its way to being stopped via strikes when Tate hit the mat and Nunes decided to switch tactics and go for the choke. Applying a rear naked that wasn't even locked in all the way, "Cupcake" tapped out, bringing an end to her reign and the beatdown she was in the midst of.