Highly-touted striker Amanda Bobby “ABC” Cooper kept Team Claudia’s perfect record intact with a close and competitive decision victory during tonight’s seventh episode of The Ultimate Fighter 23: “Team Joanna vs Team Claudia.” Cooper narrowly edged out Team Joanna’s Jamie Moyle.
The opening round of the action-packed strawweight bout saw both fighters land hard strikes on the feet until Moyle scored a late takedown, but Cooper rallied in the second stanza and she dominated the final moments of the fight by battering a bloodied Moyle with ground and pound to seal a victory.
Stipe Miocic ascended to the top of the heavyweight rankings with a huge victory on May 14th at UFC 198: “Werdum vs Miocic” in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. The Ohio native knocked out former titleholder Fabricio “Vai Cavalo” Werdum in the first round to become the new UFC Heavyweight Champion.