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MVP MMA 1 takeaways: Rousey gets her storybook moment, Diaz wants more
It may have seemed anticlimactic, but Most Valuable Promotions' first MMA event played out exactly as it should have.
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Ronda Rousey submits Gina Carano by armbar in 17 seconds
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