TUF 20 Finale: Esparza vs Namajunas full fight video highlights

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An entertaining evening of fights culminated with an enthralling main event match-up between Rose Namajunas and Carla Esparza to determine the first ever women’s strawweight champion.

Check out Dallas Winston’s play-by-play below.

R3: Esparza catches a kick and takes Namajunas down early. Namajunas can’t create distance with her legs and seems to give up her back rather than settle into guard. Esparza cinches on the body triangle and gets her forearm under the chin to finish with the rear-naked choke.

Watch the full fight video highlights above.

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Karim Zidan is a investigative reporter and feature writer focusing on the intersection of sports and politics. He has written for BloodyElbow since 2014 and has served as an associate editor since 2016. He also writes for The New York Times and The Guardian. Karim has been invited to speak about his work at numerous universities, including Princeton, and was a panelist at the South by Southwest (SXSW) film festival and the Oslo Freedom Forum. He also participated in the United Nations counter-terrorism conference in 2021. His reporting on Ramzan Kadyrov’s involvement in MMA, much of which was done for Bloody Elbow, has led to numerous award nominations, and was the basis of an award-winning HBO Real Sports documentary.