It wasn’t exciting, but it was a standard Sara McMann (9-3) performance. The Olympic silver medalist suffocated Jessica Eye (11-5, 1 NC) en route to a unanimous-decision victory.
The first round was lacking on offense. Both women entered desperately needing a victory, and pressure was visible in the opening five minutes. Neither athlete wanted to make a fight-altering mistake right out of the chute.
McMann landed some solid knees to the body when she had Eye backed to the cage, but that was essentially all that the first round had to offer. Referee John McCarthy told both fighters entering the second round that they needed to do more.