Despite picking up wins, Polyana Viana and Mallory Martin could be facing up to six months on the sidelines.
Despite picking up wins at UFC on ESPN+ 33, [autotag]Polyana Viana[/autotag] and [autotag]Mallory Martin[/autotag] could potentially face up to six months on the sidelines due to medical suspensions.
MMA Junkie obtained the full list of suspensions from MixedMartialArts.com, the Association of Boxing Commission’s official record keeper.
In the night’s opener, Martin (7-3 MMA, 1-1 UFC) picked up a comeback submission finish of [autotag]Hannah Cifers[/autotag] (10-7 MMA, 2-5 UFC) at this past weekend’s event, which took place at UFC Apex in Las Vegas. In the second fight of the night, Viana (11-4 MMA, 2-3 UFC) submitted [autotag]Emily Whitmire[/autotag] (4-4 MMA, 2-3 UFC) with an armbar in the first round.
Also potentially facing several months on the shelf is [autotag]Ji Yeon Kim[/autotag], who suffered a unanimous decision loss to [autotag]Alexa Grasso[/autotag] (12-3 MMA, 4-3 UFC). Kim (9-3-2 MMA, 3-3 UFC) has to have her right orbital non-displaced fracture cleared or she could be facing six months.
Despite the one-sided loss to [autotag]Aleksandar Rakic[/autotag] in the main event, [autotag]Anthony Smith[/autotag] (32-16 MMA, 8-4 UFC) will only be facing 45 days, whereas Rakic (13-2 MMA, 5-1 UFC) did not receive a suspension.
[autotag]Robbie Lawler[/autotag] (28-15 MMA, 13-9 UFC) will be facing 45 days for nasal lacerations in his co-main event loss to [autotag]Neil Magny[/autotag], whereas Magny (24-7 MMA, 17-6 UFC) will be facing 45 days until the cut on his right elbow is cleared by a doctor.
Below is the full list of UFC on ESPN+ 33 medical suspensions:
Anthony Smith: Suspended 45 days with no contact for 30 days.
Aleksandar Rakic: No suspension.
Robbie Lawler: Suspended 45 days with no contest for 30 days due to nasal lacerations.
Neil Magny: Suspended 45 days or until cut on right elbow cleared by doctor or no contest until Sept. 11.
Ji Yeon Kim: Must have right orbital non-displaced fracture cleared by oral and maxillofacial doctor or ophthalmologist or no contest until Feb. 26; minimum suspension until Oct. 14 with no contact until Sept. 29.
Alexa Grasso: No suspension.
[autotag]Ricardo Lamas[/autotag]: Suspended 30 days with no contact for 21 days.
[autotag]Bill Algeo[/autotag]: No suspension.
[autotag]Maki Pitolo[/autotag]: Suspended 45 days with no contact for 30 days due to facial lacerations.
[autotag]Impa Kasangay[/autotag]: Must have right eye laceration cleared by doctor or no contest until Oct. 14; minimum suspension until Sept. 11.
[autotag]Alessio Di Chirico[/autotag]: Suspended 45 days with no contact for 30 days.
[autotag]Zak Cummings[/autotag]: No suspension.
[autotag]Alex Caceres[/autotag]: No suspension.
[autotag]Austin Springer[/autotag]: No suspension.
[autotag]Sean Brady[/autotag]: No suspension.
[autotag]Christian Aguilera[/autotag]: Suspended 45 days with no contact for 30 days due to right eyebrow and nose lacerations.
Polyana Viana: Must have right thumb MRI and x-ray of
right foot. If positive, then must have orthopedic doctor clearance or no contest until Feb. 26, 2021; minimum suspension until Sept. 29 with no contact until Sept. 20.
Emily Whitmire: Suspended 30 days with no contact for 30 days due to left elbow pain.
Mallory Martin: Must have right knee MRI. If positive, must have orthopedic doctor clearance or no contest until Feb. 26, 2021; minimum suspension until Oct. 29 with no contact until Oct. 14.
Hannah Cifers: Must have nose cut cleared by doctor or no contest until Oct. 14; minimum suspension until Sept. 29 with no contact until Sept. 20.
Polyana Viana potentially saved her spot on the UFC roster with a much-needed win over Emily Whitmire at UFC on ESPN+ 33.
[autotag]Polyana Viana[/autotag] potentially saved her spot on the UFC roster Saturday with a much-needed win over [autotag]Emily Whitmire[/autotag] at UFC on ESPN+ 33.
Viana (11-4 MMA, 2-3 UFC) carried a three-fight losing skid into her matchup with Whitmire (4-4 MMA, 2-3 UFC) at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. Her back was against the wall, but then she rose to the occasion in thrilling fashion.
The Brazilian found an opportunity to lock up an armbar on Whitmire from bottom position early in the fight and finished the job in less than two minutes.
Check out the reply of her handiwork below (via Twitter):
With the performance, Viana has still yet to see the scorecards in victory. She’s put her opponent away inside the distance every time she’s gotten her hand raised, and Whitmire offered her that opportunity with her early aggression.
Viana returned to the win column for the first time since her UFC debut in February 2018, and now the 28-year-old can move forward with some pressure off her shoulders.
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The UFC has rescheduled the strawweight bout between Emily Whitmire and Polyana Viana for Aug. 29.
[autotag]Emily Whitmire[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Polyana Viana[/autotag] has been rebooked.
Whitmire (4-3 MMA, 2-2 UFC) will face Viana (10-4 MMA, 1-3 UFC) at the UFC’s Aug. 29 event in Las Vegas.
A person with knowledge of the situation confirmed the booking to MMA Junkie after an initial report from Combate. The person asked to remain anonymous since the promotion has yet to make an official announcement.
The pair of strawweights initially were scheduled to fight at UFC 248 in March, but the fight was scrapped after Whitmire missed weight and was later hospitalized due to complications.
Season 26 “Ultimate Fighter” alum Whitmire has split her first four UFC appearances. After scoring back-to-back wins over Jamie Moyle and Aleksandra Albu, she suffered a unanimous decision loss to Amanda Ribas in June 2019.
After making good on her UFC debut in 2018 with a first-round submission win over Maia Stevenson, Viana has dropped three straight to J.J. Aldrich, Hannah Cifers and, most recently, Veronica Macedo this past August.
With the addition, the current Aug. 29 lineup includes:
Fighters from Saturday’s UFC 248 took home UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay totaling $257,000.
LAS VEGAS – Fighters from Saturday’s UFC 248 event took home event took home UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance pay totaling $257,000.
The program, a comprehensive plan that includes outfitting requirements, media obligations and other items under the fighter code of conduct, replaces the previous payments made under the UFC Athlete Outfitting Policy.
UFC 248 took place at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The main card aired on pay-per-view following prelims on ESPN and ESPN+/UFC Fight Pass.
The full UFC 248 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts included:
Under the UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance program’s payout tiers, which appropriate the money generated by Reebok’s multi-year sponsorship with the UFC, fighters are paid based on their total number of UFC bouts, as well as Zuffa-era WEC fights (January 2007 and later) and Zuffa-era Strikeforce bouts (April 2011 and later). Fighters with 1-3 bouts receive $3,500 per appearance; 4-5 bouts get $4,000; 6-10 bouts get $5,000; 11-15 bouts earn $10,000; 16-20 bouts pocket $15,000; and 21 bouts and more get $20,000. Additionally, champions earn $40,000 while title challengers get $30,000.
In addition to experience-based pay, UFC fighters will receive in perpetuity royalty payments amounting to 20-30 percent of any UFC merchandise sold that bears their likeness, according to officials.
Full 2020 UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payouts:
UFC 248 has lost one of its fights at the last minute.
[autotag]Emily Whitmire[/autotag]’s UFC 248 experience just went from bad to worse.
After missing weight for her scheduled strawweight matchup with [autotag]Polyana Viana[/autotag] by 1.5 pounds on Friday, Whitmire’s struggles continued as she tried to get herself prepared for fight night.
Whitmire (4-3 MMA, 2-2 UFC), however, couldn’t get back to 100 percent, and due to complications was hospitalized Saturday in Las Vegas. Her matchup with Viana (10-4 MMA, 1-3 UFC) has been canceled, MMA Junkie confirmed with a person close to the situation after Viana shared the news on Twitter.
“ I just heard tha Emily is out of the fight with me today. I also heard she had to be taken to the ER. I hope she is alright and I wish from the bottom of my heart that she recovers from whatever it is that she is suffering from.
“I just heard (that) Emily is out of the fight with me today,” Viana tweeted. “I also heard she had to be taken to the ER. I hope she is alright [sic] and I wish from the bottom of my heart that she recovers from whatever it is that she is suffering from.”
As a result, UFC 248, which takes place at T-Mobile Arena, will proceed with 11 fights.
The best facts and figures about UFC 248, which features a Israel Adesanya vs. Yoel Romero middleweight title main event.
The UFC returns to Las Vegas on Saturday with another major event in UFC 248, which takes place at T-Mobile Arena with a main card that airs on pay-per-view following prelims on ESPN and ESPN+/UFC-Fight Pass.
A championship doubleheader sits atop the card. In the main event, undefeated titleholder [autotag]Israel Adesanya[/autotag] (18-0 MMA, 7-0 UFC) seeks the first defense of his belt when he takes on [autotag]Yoel Romero[/autotag] (13-4 MMA, 9-3 UFC). The co-headliner, meanwhile, will see [autotag]Zhang Weili[/autotag] (20-1 MMA, 4-0 UFC) attempt to defend her belt for the first time, as well, when she takes on former champ [autotag]Joanna Jedrzejczyk[/autotag] (16-3 MMA, 10-3 UFC).
For more on the numbers bheind the two title fights, as well as the rest of the card, check below for 55 pre-event facts about UFC 248.
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Main event
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Adesanya is one of 13 fighters in UFC history to win an undisputed title with an undefeated record.
Adesanya is one of 11 undisputed middleweight champions in UFC history.
Adesanya’s 18-fight winning streak is third longest among active UFC fighters behind Khabib Nurmagomedov (28) and Zhang (20).
Adesanya’s 18-fight winning streak is the longest among active UFC middleweights.
Adesanya’s seven-fight UFC winning streak at middleweight is the longest active streak in the division.
Adesanya’s 10 knockdowns landed in UFC middleweight competition are tied for third most in divisional history behind Anderson Silva (13) and Nate Marquardt (12).
Adesanya’s four knockdowns landed against Kelvin Gastelum at UFC 236 are the single-fight record for a UFC title bout.
Adesanya defends 66.7 percent of all opponent significant strike attempts in UFC middleweight competition, the third best rate in divisional history behind Chael Sonnen (67.7 percent) and Marvin Vettori (67 percent).
Adesanya defends 85.7 percent of all opponent takedown attempts in UFC middleweight competition, the second best rate in divisional history behind Krzysztof Jotko (86 percent).
Adesanya’s six fight-night bonuses for UFC middleweight bouts are tied for third most in company history behind Anderson Silva (11) and Robert Whittaker (seven).
Yoel Romero
Romero is the second fighter in history to fight for a title following consecutive non-title UFC losses. Tank Abbott also accomplished the feat.
Romero enters the event on the first losing skid of his career. He’s 1-3 in his past four fights dating back to July 2017.
Romero’s 10 knockdowns landed in UFC middleweight competition are tied for third most in divisional history behind Silva (13) and Marquardt (12).
Romero’s seven knockout victories in UFC middleweight competition are tied for third most in divisional history behind Silva (eight) and Thiago Santos (eight).
Romero’s six third-round stoppage victories in UFC competition are tied with Max Holloway and Randy Couture for most in company history. Romero leads the category in knockouts.
Romero is one of three fighters in UFC history to earn back-to-back victories by third-round knockout. He’s accomplished the feat twice in his career.
Romero is one of two fighters in UFC history to earn two knockout victories stemming from a flying knee. Diego Sanchez also accomplished the feat.
Romero is one of three fighters in UFC history to earn a knockout victory stemming from elbow strikes to the body. He accomplished the feat at UFC Fight Night 35.
Romero and Robert Whittaker combined for 239 significant strikes landed, the single-fight record for a five-fight UFC middleweight fight.
Co-main event
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Weili is the only UFC champion born in China.
Weili enters the event on a 20-fight winning streak. She hasn’t suffered a defeat since her MMA debut in November 2013.
Weili’s 20-fight winning streak is the longest among female fighters on the UFC roster.
Weili’s 20-fight winning streak is the second longest among all fighters on the UFC roster behind Khabib Nurmagomedov (28).
Weili’s four-fight UFC winning streak in strawweight competition is the third longest active streak in the division behind Tatiana Suarez (five) and Yan Xiaonan (five).
Weili’s 42-second victory at UFC on ESPN+ 15 is the second fastest finish in UFC strawweight history behind Poliana Botelho’s 33-second win at UFC 236.
Joanna Jedrzejczyk
Jedrzejczyk became the first Polish-born champion in UFC history when she defeated Carla Esparza at UFC 185.
Jedrzejczyk is one of 13 fighters in UFC history to win a belt with an undefeated record.
Jedrzejczyk’s six victories in UFC title fights are tied with Ronda Rousey for second most of any female in company history behind Amanda Nunes (seven).
Jedrzejczyk’s 10 victories in UFC competition are third most of any female in company history behind Nunes (12) and Jessica Andrade (11).
Jedrzejczyk competes in her 14th UFC bout, the second most appearances by any female in company history behind Jessica Andrade (15).
Jedrzejczyk’s 10 victories in UFC strawweight competition are the most in divisional history.
Jedrzejczyk has earned 11 of her 16 career victories by decision. That includes seven of her 10 UFC wins.
Jedrzejczyk has out-landed her opponents 1,441-628 in significant strikes over her past 11 UFC appearances.
Jedrzejczyk is one of two fighters UFC history to land 100 or more significant strikes in seven separate fights. Holloway also accomplished the feat.
Jedrzejczyk’s 225 significant strikes landed against Andrade at UFC 211 are second most for a UFC title-fight record. Holloway holds the record with 290 landed at UFC 231.
Jedrzejczyk’s 76 leg kicks landed against Michelle Waterson at UFC on ESPN+ 19 are the single-fight UFC record.
Remaining main card
Drakkar Klose
[autotag]Drakkar Klose[/autotag] (11-1-1 MMA, 5-1 UFC) has earned all five of his UFC victories by decision.
Klose’s average fight time of 15:00 in UFC lightweight competition is the longest among active fighters in the weight class.
[autotag]Neil Magny[/autotag] (21-7 MMA, 14-6 UFC) returns to competition for the first time since Nov. 17, 2018. The 476-day layoff is the longest of his nearly 10-year career.
Magny becomes the seventh fighter to make 21 or more UFC welterweight appearances.
Magny’s 14 victories since 2013 in UFC competition are second most among active fighters in the company behind Donald Cerrone (17).
Magny is the only fighter in modern UFC history to make five or more octagon appearances in consecutive years. He went 4-1 in 2015 after going 5-0 in 2014.
Magny’s five UFC victories in 2014 tied Roger Huerta’s record for most octagon wins in a calendar year. Huerta accomplished the feat in 2007.
Magny’s 100 significant ground strikes landed against Hector Lombard at UFC Fight Night 85 stand as the single-fight UFC record.
Magny’s 142 total strikes landed in the second round of his victory against Lombard stand as the third most in a single UFC round.
Li Jingliang
[autotag]Li Jingliang[/autotag] (17-5 MMA, 9-3 UFC) is 7-1 in his past eight UFC appearances dating back to July 2016.
Jingliang has earned all six of his UFC stoppage victories by knockout.
Jingliang’s six knockout victories since 2014 in UFC welterweight competition are tied with Vicente Luque for most in the division.
[autotag]Alex Oliveira[/autotag]’s (19-8-1 MMA, 9-6 UFC) three-fight losing skid is the longest of his career. He hasn’t earned a victory since September 2018.
Oliveira is 7-5 (with one no contest) in UFC welterweight competition.
Oliveira vs. Yancy Medeiros at UFC 218 is the only fight in UFC history to feature two knockdowns for each fighter.
Preliminary card
Sean O’Malley
[autotag]Sean O’Malley[/autotag] (10-0 MMA, 2-0 UFC) returns to competition for the first time since March 3, 2018. The 735-day layoff is the longest of his more than five-year career.
O’Malley has earned both of his UFC victories by decision.
[autotag]Saparbek Safarov[/autotag] (9-2 MMA, 1-2 UFC) drops to the UFC middleweight division after spending his previous promotional appearances at light heavyweight.
[autotag]Gerald Meerschaert[/autotag] (29-12 MMA, 5-4 UFC) has earned 27 of his 29 career victories by stoppage. That includes all five of his UFC wins.
Meerschaert is one of 17 fighters in UFC history to earn a submission victory by anaconda choke. He accomplished the feat at UFC Fight Night 102.
[autotag]Deron Winn[/autotag] (6-1 MMA, 1-1 UFC) landed 169 significant strikes at UFC on ESPN+ 12, the single-fight record for a UFC middleweight bout.
[autotag]Emily Whitmire[/autotag]’s (4-3 MMA, 2-2 UFC) 61-second victory at UFC on ESPN 1 is the fastest submission in UFC strawweight history.
[autotag]Polyana Viana[/autotag]’s (10-4 MMA, 1-3 UFC) three-fight losing skid is the longest of her career. She hasn’t earned a victory since February 2018.
UFC research analyst and live statistics producer Michael Carroll contributed to this story. Follow him on Twitter @MJCflipdascript.
The lineup has been set for what promises to be an explosive night of action in Las Vegas.
UFC 248 will feature a championship doubleheader showcasing four elite competitors from all over the world.
Middleweight champion Israel Adesanya of New Zealand will put his title on the line against Yoel Romero, from South Florida by way of Cuba, in the main event.
The melting pot that is UFC 248 takes place March 7 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The main card airs on pay-per-view following prelims on ESPN and UFC Fight Pass/ESPN+.
Both Adesanya (18-0 MMA, 7-0 UFC) and Zhang (20-1 MMA, 4-0 UFC) will look to remain undefeated in the UFC.
The finalized UFC 248 lineup includes:
MAIN CARD (Pay-per-view, 10 p.m. ET)
Champ Israel Adesanya vs. Yoel Romero – for middleweight title
Champ Zhang Weili vs. Joanna Jedrzejczyk – for strawweight title
[autotag]Beneil Dariush[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Drakkar Klose[/autotag]
[autotag]Li Jingliang[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Neil Magny[/autotag]
[autotag]Max Griffin[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Alex Oliveira[/autotag]
PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN/ESPN+, 8 p.m. ET)
[autotag]Shane O’Malley[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Jose Quinonez[/autotag]
[autotag]Austin Hubbard[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Mark Madsen[/autotag]
[autotag]Saparbek Safarov[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Rodolfo Vieira[/autotag]
[autotag]Gerald Meerschaert[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Deron Winn[/autotag]
PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN/ESPN+, 6:15 p.m. ET)
[autotag]Polyana Viana[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Emily Whitmire[/autotag]
[autotag]Jamall Emmers[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Movsar Evloev[/autotag]
[autotag]Danaa Batgerel[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Guido Cannetti[/autotag]
We saw a few bad decisions in MMA in 2019, but our “Robbery of the Year” award involves an actual robbery attempt and vigilante justice.
I’ll be honest here: When we got the assignments for our end-of-year features, I thought I’d been handed the short straw with the “Robbery of the Year” award.
Only in very rare circumstances do I think actual MMA robberies exist, and those occurrences are rarer still when you sharpen the focus to the very highest levels of the sport. After I was given this assignment, I cast my mind back to fights that left me thinking, “Wow. That was a truly awful decision.” I couldn’t think of many at all.
Sure, there were some questionable ones. I had Volkan Oezdemir beating Dominick Reyes at UFC on ESPN+ 5 in London back in March. According to Oezdemir, so did Reyes’ corner. But was it so egregious to be dubbed a robbery? I don’t think so.
Then, of course, there was the much-debated decision by Herb Dean to stop the Ben Askren vs. Robbie Lawler fight at UFC 235 after he adjudged Lawler to have briefly lost consciousness during Askren’s bulldog choke. Contentious? Yes. But a robbery? That’s debatable. At the time, I also thought Lawler’s arm seemingly going limp suggested he had blacked out – even if only for a split-second.
More recently, the UFC’s final pay-per-view show of the year saw Marlon Moraes get the nod from the judges after a cracker of a bantamweight bout with Jose Aldo at UFC 245 in Las Vegas. Most people I spoke to backstage after the event agreed with me and thought Aldo had done enough to win the fight. Dana White thought the same, too.
Was it an absolute travesty that Moraes got the split decision? Not really, no. Indeed, the excellent MMADecisions.com website, which tracks media members’ scores via social media, listed an even split between Aldo and Moraes in the final verdicts. So Moraes’ win certainly couldn’t be considered a robbery.
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The closest thing I saw to a robbery in 2019 came back at that London event, when British welterweight Danny Roberts was adjudged to have “technically submitted” to London-based Brazilian Claudio Silva, despite the fact that he’d actually escaped Silva’s nasty-looking armbar by the time the referee stepped in to stop the fight. Apparently, the referee reacted to a grunt made by Roberts just before he managed to pull his arm free, but at the time, we were none the wiser. It was bizarre, confusing to everyone watching and left Roberts absolutely livid.
Another leftfield contender is the Cage Warriors 106 main event between welterweight champion Ross Houston and interim champ Nicolas Dalby at the British promotion’s “Night of Champions” event in London in the summer. The pair went back and forth in a fantastic scrap that turned into a bloodbath so bad that it eventually forced referee Marc Goddard to call off the bout due to the canvas being dangerously slippery.
The robbery here wasn’t Goddard’s decision – he really had little choice in the circumstances. It was the fact that we never saw a rematch. Dalby headed off to the UFC, while Houston was left on the Cage Warriors roster. The fact that fight wasn’t rebooked, either in Cage Warriors or in the UFC, certainly seems like a crime to me. Maybe that’s something the UFC could rectify in the coming year. Who knows?
And in the same vein, we were all robbed by circumstance when Jorge Masidal and Nate Diaz went toe to toe for the “BMF” title at UFC 241 in New York. The buildup to the fight had everyone on the edges of their seats for a fight that everyone expected to deliver. And it did until an unfortunate cut above Diaz’s eye prompted a second look from the cageside physician, who advised that the fight be stopped. On reflection – and seeing the shots of Diaz’s cut immediately after the fight – it was probably the right call. But it sadly robbed us of what might have turned into one of the fights of 2019.
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But we really can’t run a piece on MMA’s “Robbery of the Year” without the only MMA story of the year to actually include a robbery. Well, an attempted one, anyway.
Exactly one year ago to the day, Brazilian strawweight [autotag]Polyana Viana[/autotag] was waiting for an Uber in front of her apartment complex in Jacarepagua, Rio de Janeiro, when she was approached by a man who claimed he was armed, then attempted to rob her and take her mobile phone.
Bad move.
Viana proceeded to batter the would-be robber with strikes before subduing him with a rear-naked choke, then held him in a Kimura until the police arrived.
Speaking to MMA Junkie, Viana picked up the story: “He asked me the time, I said it, and I saw he wasn’t going to leave. So I already moved to put my cell phone in my waist. And then he said: ‘Give me the phone. Don’t try to react, because I’m armed.’ Then he put his hand over (a gun), but I realized it was too soft (to be real).
“He was really close to me. So I thought: ‘If it’s a gun, he won’t have time to draw it.’ So I stood up. I threw two punches and a kick. He fell, then I caught him in a rear-naked choke. Then I sat him down in the same place we were before and said: ‘Now we’ll wait for the police.’
“I was fine because he didn’t even react after. Since he took the punches very quickly, I think he was scared. So he didn’t react anymore. He told me to let him go, like: ‘I just asked for the time.’ I said: ‘Asked for the time my ass!’ because he saw I was very angry. I said I wouldn’t let go and that I was going to call the police.
“He said: ‘Call the police, then,’ because he was scared I was going to beat him up more.”
OK, the mugger didn’t succeed in his attempted robbery of Viana, but the Brazilian strawweight still deserves to accept our “Robbery of the Year” award. Although he initially attempted to rob her, it turned out that she robbed him … of his dignity.
