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Top 10 most important UFC women’s main events

By Drake Riggs

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 15: (L-R) Ronda Rousey faces Holly Holm in their UFC women's bantamweight championship bout during the UFC 193 event at Etihad Stadium on November 15, 2015 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 15: (L-R) Ronda Rousey faces Holly Holm in their UFC women's bantamweight championship bout during the UFC 193 event at Etihad Stadium on November 15, 2015 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images) /
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LAS VEGAS, NV – JULY 09: Amanda Nunes of Brazil (right) reacts to her victory over Miesha Tate (left) in their UFC women’s bantamweight championship bout during the UFC 200 event on July 9, 2016 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
LAS VEGAS, NV – JULY 09: Amanda Nunes of Brazil (right) reacts to her victory over Miesha Tate (left) in their UFC women’s bantamweight championship bout during the UFC 200 event on July 9, 2016 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images) /

5. Miesha Tate vs Amanda Nunes – UFC 200, 2016

It wasn’t supposed to be the main event, but if Jon Jones has anything to say about it, it’s going to be a party.

UFC 200 was all set up to be the UFC’s monster event that would top UFC 100 and break all sorts of records. Originally set up with three title fights, we wound up with two and a plethora of ranked matchups and some freakshow fights. There was just about everything at UFC 200, whether the fans think it delivered in entertainment or not.

After her massive comeback title victory over Holly Holm at UFC 196, the former Strikeforce champion in Tate had finally captured the title that had been eluding her and she was ready to further fulfill her spotlight.

Waiting in the wakes was Amanda Nunes who also fought at that same event when she defeated Valentina Shevchenko to earn her title shot.

An anticipated and pretty even matchup on paper, it didn’t exactly play out that way. Similar to Nunes’ fight against Rousey, this one wasn’t much of a challenge for the Brazilian.

Tate approached the fight patiently but was unable to really get any offense going at all before Nunes started landing punches that rattled Tate early and often. Trying to survive, Tate would end up finding herself caught in a rear-naked-choke and being forced to tap making Nunes the fourth UFC bantamweight champion.

Being such a massive card, the fact that the fight was promoted to the main event was a big step for the already rapidly growing female fighters.

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