CLEVELAND, Ohio – UFC 203 is this Saturday Night from the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland and the card is stacked for the company’s first card in Championship City.
Much like we did with the massive UFC 200 card, we here at Neo Sports thought it would be fun to break down the biggest matches on the card, one at a time. So let us begin!
The undercard will feature two former top contenders in the Womens Bantamweight Division when hometown girl Jessica Eye takes on Beth Correia. It is now or never for Eye as she is on the verge of being cut loose from the UFC after what has been a miserable stay. Her sole UFC win was against Leslie Smith.
Her losses in the UFC are aplenty, both in and outside of the cage. She has lost 4 times, including three straight. Decision losses to Miesha Tate, Julianna Pena and Sara McMann. It has been a rocky stint in the UFC from her fist night with them as in her first fight with the promotion, Eye faced Sarah Kaufman at UFC 166 on October 19, 2013. She won the fight via split decision.
However, in February 2014, the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation changed the result to “no decision” with no reason initially given for the change. It was later revealed that Eye had failed her post-fight drug test after testing positive for marijuana and was subsequently fined $1,875 and put on probationary suspension for a year.
I realize Cleveland wants to get behind the hometown girl, but the track record and personality of Eye makes it hard to do so. She has been quoted on the radio (92.3 Morning Show) saying, “I just do this for money”. Not exactly a role model.
Beth Correia was 9-0 before she ran into the buzzsaw champion that was Ronda Rousey at the time, in August of 2015. She was destroyed in under a minute in her home country of Brazil. Since then, she has only fought once and lost, a split decision defeat in April to Raquel Pennington.
I look for her to get back on track with a convincing decision win over Eye on Saturday.
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