Even after a year and a half away, Michelle Waterson didn’t miss a beat.
In her first bout since July 2015, “The Karate Hottie” made short work of heavily-hyped “Dancing With the Stars” runner-up Paige VanZant in the UFC on Fox 22 headliner, winning via rear-naked choke 3:21 into the opening stanza at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, Calif., on Saturday night.
While Waterson’s journey in the UFC strawweight division is just beginning, smaller-weight icon Urijah Faber called it a career in style, as the ex-World Extreme Cagefighting champion outpointed Brad Pickett in front of an appreciative hometown crowd earlier in the evening.