Paige VanZant is a 22 year old American Mixed Martial Artist with a record of 7-2, 7 wins and 2 loses. She is (4-1 UFC) with 3 finishes which is actually the most finishes in the short history of the UFC women's strawweight division. She is a very well rounded fighter holding victories 2 by KO/TKO, 2 by submission and 3 by decision. Although she has a very impressive record she is incredibly young in the MMA world and relatively inexperienced but is only 2 fights away from being in the title conversation.
Paige has been a poster girl for the UFC very early on with not much credit to her name fightwise, this is very simply because she's incredibly beautiful with a decent prospects in the sport. Reebok also notice that being a pretty girl in such a male dominated sport with women becoming more and more popular as Paige is one of few fighters who have an endorsement deal along with Ronda Rousey, Holly Holm, Conor McGregor and Holly Holm. VanZant is also a pretty damn good dancer, she placed second in series 22 of Dancing With The Stars, which came at a great time in her MMA career after her first loss in the UFC it was perfect timing to refresh, take a break while gaining even more fame than she did fighting and becoming a bigger name.
Paige then returns to the octagon against Bec Rawlings and pulls off one of the most spectacular finishes in the history of women's MMA at the top level. Paige VanZant pulls off a jumping switch head kick KO. In the second round. At 115 pounds. Jesus christ. She was clearly looking for the technique as part of her game plan, she threw it a couple of times in the first round while generally not engaging and looking to try and wear out Rawlings although largely not successful losing the first round. She comes out in the second round and in 14 seconds connects with the ridiculous kick and puts Rawlings out immediately, you can see her eyes roll back in her head and when she hits the ground you can actually see her wake up a little bit and moves a little bit but takes more shots from Paige then the referee was forced to stop the fight. It was a ridiculous knockout and will be held as one of the best in the strawweight division for a little while I think.
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