ELMONT, N.Y. -- A finishing sequence that could have been a disaster ended up being a lesson in sportsmanship.
Lemos jumped a guillotine choke in the second round and Waterson-Gomez tapped out - on the opposite side of referee Kevin MacDonald, who did not see the tap. Lemos stopped choking even though MacDonald did not step in to stop the fight. But Waterson-Gomez admitted she tapped and MacDonald called the bout via submission at 1:48 of the second.
"She ducks her head a lot and I'm taller," Lemos said in her post-fight interview. "I've trained the guillotine hundreds of thousands of times for this fight and it paid off.