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Ronda Rousey creates history by beating Cat Zingano after 14 SECONDS at UFC 184 to retain bantamweight title

• Ronda Rousey submitted Cat Zingano via armbar inside 14 seconds
• Rousey made a successful fifth defence of her bantamweight title
• The finish is fastest in a UFC title fight and joint-fastest of any UFC fight

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Ronda Rousey recorded the fastest-ever finish in a UFC title fight as she submitted Cat Zingano after just 14 seconds in Los Angeles.

Rousey was expected to face the toughest examination of her reign as bantamweight champion against the unbeaten Zingano.

But having avoided a flying knee in the opening seconds, Rousey took her opponent down and set to work trying to execute her trademark armbar.

      

                                         

                               

                            

                  

UFC 184 RESULTS 

Ronda Rousey bt Cat Zingano via sub 

Holly Holm bt Raquel Pennington via SD

Jake Ellenberger bt Josh Koscheck via sub

Alan Jouban bt Richard Walsh via KO

Tony Ferguson bt Gleison Tibau via sub

Roan Carneiro bt Mark Munoz via sub

Roman Salazar bt Norifumi Yamamoto N/C

Tim Means bt Dhiego Lima via TKO

Derrick Lewis bt Ruan Potts via TKO

Valmir Lazaro bt James Krause via SD

Masio Fullen bt Alexander Torres via SD 

               Rousey had landed on her head but the champion gracefully flipped Zingano on to her back, got up and manoeuvred swiftly into position to wrench Zingano's arm grotesquely. Rousey forced the challenger to tap out.

'We were expecting that she might come out and do something flying at me right away,' Rousey said. 'That's not usually how you land an armbar at that angle, but it works. It was a lot like judo transitions, where you scramble the second you hit the ground.

'I made that up on the fly, to be honest. But it was kind of funny: We were going toward the ground, and I kind of reverted back to judo mode and was thinking, 'Don't touch your back. It's a point.' 

'That's where the acrobatic thing came from, was thinking about not touching your back in judo.'

It was hard to work out who was more stunned, Zingano or the sell-out 17,000-crowd at the Staples Center.

'She's really good ... but that wouldn't happen again,' the beaten challenger said. 'It was a knee and then a throw and then a scramble, and then she was wrapped around my arm. I got caught. I was ready to do a million different things. I planned on getting in a fist fight tonight.'

Story by Todd Starr