{"id":98865,"date":"2025-08-27T05:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T05:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/98865\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T05:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T05:04:10","slug":"first-woman-to-fight-in-ufc-eyes-hall-of-fame-after-pfl-title-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/98865\/","title":{"rendered":"First Woman to Fight in UFC eyes Hall of Fame after PFL title win"},"content":{"rendered":"

A pioneer of the sport who took on Ronda Rousey in the first-ever women\u2019s fight in UFC history thinks a Hall of Fame induction is due after capturing even more championship gold recently.<\/p>\n

\"Ronda<\/p>\n

Liz Carmouche contended for championships across multiple divisions in the UFC with championship accolades on her resume in both Bellator MMA and, most recently, in PFL. Carmouche\u2019s fight with Ronda Rousey in 2013 was certainly a memorable one, with Carmouche putting Rousey in more danger than she had seen in her prior fights leading into that UFC debut effort.<\/p>\n

Carmouche\u2019s recent win over Jena Bishop to capture PFL gold put the former in the same league as Cris Cyborg in terms of women\u2019s MMA fighters who have become two promotion titleholders. The 41-year-old combatant has won twelve of her previous thirteen fights, with the only loss in that stretch coming to Valentina Shevchenko in a UFC flyweight title bid in 2019.<\/p>\n

Carmouche was speaking recently with Danny Segura of MMA Junkie<\/a>, and while touching on this massive win in the PFL flyweight tournament as well as the overall body of work she has put together in her career, Carmouche said [via Bloody Elbow],<\/p>\n

\u201cI have done a lot. When you\u2019re caught up in the moment of just trying to evolve as much as possible, prepare for fights, you kind of lose the perspective of some of the things you\u2019ve accomplished. I\u2019m big on not necessarily looking in the past. It\u2019s in those conversations where I do and I go like, oh, holy crap, like maybe I should be in the UFC Hall of Fame or something like that. I certainly hope so.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI would love if there was a UFC Hall of Fame I could be a part of. That would be really awesome. Again, just to add some more accolades into things I\u2019ve accomplished.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pioneer of the sport who took on Ronda Rousey in the first-ever women\u2019s fight in UFC history…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,55691,785,5963,85,787],"class_list":["post-98865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-liz-carmouche","tag-mma","tag-pfl","tag-sports","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}