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[QUOTE="OzExorcist, post: 3367693, member: 23910"]
So women's 145 really is happening, and the inaugural champion crowned on February 11th will be either... Holly Holm or Germaine de Randamie?!?

[url]http://www.mmafighting.com/2016/12/13/13945112/holly-holm-germaine-de-randamie-to-fight-for-inaugural-ufc-womens[/url]

And it looks like for the time being at least they're just gonna cannibalise women's 135, which is already short on talent.  Seriously, the 135 top 15 currently includes:

- Recently-retired Miesha Tate
 - 39-year-old Marion Reneau, who is 1-2 in her last 3
 - Jessica Eye, who is 1-5 (plus 1 NC) in the UFC and is taking the next year off fighting
 - Fighters like Carmouche and Correia who aren't likely to ever compete for the title or do anything other than hang around the fringes of the top 10

There are some solid names in there too (Nunes and Rousey obv, Shevchenko, Pena, Zingano and McMann I guess).

FWIW Cyborg is taking a fairly circumspect "UFC gonna UFC" view of it all: [url]http://www.mmafighting.com/2016/12/13/13946208/cris-cyborg-reacts-holm-vs-de-randamie-everybody-knows-im-the-featherweight-champion[/url]

If I'm Cyborg I'd be preparing to wait a while before getting a shot at that belt BTW: if Rousey and Holm were [I]both[/I] to win belts in their upcoming fights, then Rousey v Holm 2 in a champion v champion fight pretty much make itself doesn't it?
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