Cris Cyborg Triumphs in Featherweight Title Fight Against Pacheco

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00:00Then you had the women's featherweight title on the line with Chris Seiberg

00:06going against Larissa Pacheco. Of course Pacheco had been on a huge win streak

00:10ten fights in a row before that fight. Of course she had those fights against

00:14Kayla Harrison that she lost before the third one where she gets her revenge

00:16going against an absolute legend in Chris Seiberg who had won her last eight

00:21fights in MMA and four fights in boxing. Now it's nine in MMA as she gets the

00:26victory by unanimous decision 49-46 on all three judges scorecards. She was

00:32dominant in this one and maybe in a way that we didn't expect going maybe a

00:37little bit of you know the predator style there and throwing the takedowns

00:40that we didn't see coming. Respecting the power of Pacheco and saying you know

00:43what let's not stand and trade the whole time because we saw that there were

00:46times that she got opened up. You saw the two cuts over the eyes for Seiberg

00:51there. She was the underdog, the slight underdog at plus 116. I couldn't believe

00:55it. I was riding with Seiberg and she gets the victory there. She had landed

01:00Pacheco 108-91 over the course of the fight but probably the bigger

01:05thing that gets her the victory is the four takedowns. We saw that you know in

01:09the highlight clip there. Grabbing her, throwing her to the mat. Not something we

01:12usually see from Seiberg. She's one that likes to stand and trade a lot. She of

01:15course has that in her arsenal but not something that you would have expected

01:18per se. Especially coming from a bunch of boxing fights that she's had recently

01:21maybe was more focused on the stand-up. Now she said I know what I can do

01:25against her and where I could dominate her. She respected her opponent. Knew how

01:29dangerous she was on the feet and while she did land some big shots of course

01:32over the course of the fight said you know there were moments that she was

01:35going to you know just take the edge off and not you know let her opponent

01:40stand where she's comfortable. She's gonna put her on her back and that

01:43worked out to her favor and she gets the unanimous decision of course. Very happy

01:47as you see there in the clip that we have here. You know it was cut up a

01:51little bit over the eyes but still battles through against the unanimous

01:54decision win. So great job by her to get the title. She was very happy about

01:59getting that belt. You know you think that someone who's been there done that

02:02in just about every organization in MMA you know would just you know be another

02:07fight whatever. No she was very excited very happy to win that title.