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Former UFC champion and Olympic medalist Ronda Rousey (13-2) needed just 17 seconds to defeat Gina Carano (7-2) with her signature armbar on Saturday at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, bringing her mixed martial arts (MMA) career to a close.

In her return to MMA, Rousey quickly took Carano down to the mat at the start of the round. Carano tried to defend herself but left her arm exposed, allowing the judoka to apply her signature armbar.

Rousey stopped fighting in 2016 following losses to Holly Holm in 2015 and Amanda Nunes a year later. For the Riverside resident, this fight marks the career finale Rousey never had.

“There’s no way I can top this,” said Rousey, 39, when asked after the fight if she planned to return to the ring.

“I wanted it to last longer,” said Carano, 44.

Rousey urged Carano to consider the fight at a difficult time in her life and the actor said she lost 100 pounds to prepare for the bout.

“She gave me a reason; I woke up every day thinking about her,” Carano said of Rousey.

“She’s a hero to me. You changed my world,” Rousey told Carano, before hugging her after the brief bout. “I didn’t want to hurt her — that’s just how mixed martial arts is.”

The event was organized by MVP, co-owned by influencer and boxer Jake Paul and businessman Nakisa Bridarian. The bout was scheduled for five rounds in the featherweight division.

“You’re going to see more MMA on MVP, and it’s all thanks to these women,” Paul said, before telling UFC President Dana White that his company would host more high-profile MMA events like Saturday’s card at Intuit Dome that paid the headliners millions and every fighter lower on the card at least $40,000 apiece.

Ronda Rousey hugs Gina Carano after using an armbar to beat Carano Saturday at Intuit Dome.

(Jae C. Hong / Ap Photo/jae C. Hong)

Carano had not competed since 2009 — a 17-year hiatus — and is considered by many to be the pioneer of women’s MMA, having competed in Strikeforce and Elite XC before retiring following a loss to Cyborg.

In other welterweight bouts, 41-year-old Nate Díaz (22-14) was unable to make it to the third round of his fight against Mike Perry (15-8) after taking a beating in two rounds, during which he also landed some strikes but bore the brunt of the action.

With Díaz’s face bleeding profusely, Perry took advantage of Díaz’s questionable physical condition. Díaz hadn’t fought in MMA since 2022, when he defeated Tony Ferguson, though he had dabbled in boxing.

Mike Beltrán, the referee for the bout, stopped the fight after Díaz was unable to stop the bleeding and continue at the end of the second round.

“I landed some good shots, but I was getting tired,” said Perry, 34. “He’s very good, tough; when he looks like he’s hurt, he always has a trick up his sleeve, so I had to be careful.”

In another heavyweight bout, Cameroonian Francis Ngannou (19-3) needed just one round to dispatch Brazilian Philipe Lins (18-6) in a fight where he didn’t seem to be trying very hard. The African fighter punished Lins, who, although he defended himself and managed to land a few blows on Ngannou, was easy prey for a blow to the head that knocked him out in the opening round.

Ronda Rousey uses an armbar to defeat Gina Carano in 17 seconds on Saturday at Intuit Dome.

(Jae C. Hong / Ap Photo/jae C. Hong)

“I kept my composure,” said Ngannou, 39. “My knockout wasn’t impressive for my style.”

Ngannou also challenged legendary former UFC champion Jon Jones to a bout in MVP MMA. Jones was in the arena conducting an interview with the Netflix broadcast team when he received the challenge and gave a thumbs up amid the crowd’s cheers. Another potential boxing opponent for the Cameroonian is MVP promoter Jake Paul himself, who stepped into the Octagon to celebrate with winners on Saturday.

“As a businessman, we’re going to promote MMA. And hopefully we can fight one day in boxing,” Paul said.

In the lightweight division, Salahdine Parnasse (23-2) defeated Kenneth Cross (17-5) in the first round after landing a flurry of punches and dominating him early. Parnasse unleashed a wide-ranging offensive, from body shots to head strikes, to end the fight at the 4:18 mark of the first round.

In another bout, in the heavyweight division, Brazilian Junior dos Santos (21-11) was knocked out spectacularly by Cuban Robelis Despaigne (6-2) in the first round. The Cuban landed a three-punch combination — two rights and a left — to finish off a bloodied Dos Santos at 2:59.

Despaigne, who has fought for promotions such as Karate Combat, said afterward that he would like to face Ngannou.

Other results

In the main event of the preliminary card, Namo Fazil (10-1) submitted Jake Babian (6-2) in the second round of their welterweight bout.

In a 130-pound catchweight bout, Brazilian Adriano Moraes (22-6) knocked out American Phumi Nkuta (11-1) in the final second of the third round. Moraes landed a kick to Nkuta’s body in the final moments of a close bout, and as Nkuta fell, Moraes applied a guillotine choke. At first, it appeared the bell had saved Nkuta, but the referee determined that the fighter was already knocked out and awarded the victory to Moraes.

In the welterweight division, one of the best knockouts of the night occurred when Jason Jackson (20-6) sent Jefferson Creighton (12-3-1) to the canvas in just 22 seconds.

In the featherweight division, David Mgoyan (9-1) dominated Albert Morales (19-11), defeating him by unanimous decision (29-28, 30-26, and 30-27).

Aline Pereira (3-2) defeated Jade Masson-Wong (3-3) by split decision (29-28, 29-28, 27-30) in a 130-pound bout.

Chris Avila (8-10) was defeated by split decision (29-28, 29-28, 28-29) by Brandon Jenkins (17-11) in a 165-pound bout.

This article first appeared in Spanish via L.A. Times en Español.

Content creator Just Deano flew from Tenerife to Manchester after his recent holiday where he tested out how long it would take to get past the new EES system that has caused chaos for Brits

A Brit arrived at the airport in Tenerife three hours before his flight home after fearing new travel rules would delay him — only to breeze past the Entry/Exit System (EES) in just 30 seconds.

The travel requirement has led to major disruption across airports in Europe — and some Brits have ended up missing flights. This was after getting stuck in long queues in countries like Spain, Portugal and Poland.

For those who don’t know, new rules require non-EU nationals, which of course includes Brits, to register their biometrics instead of having passports stamped at border control.

It was introduced to replace the passport stamp and it works by automatically checking when a person enters or leaves a country in the EU.

As for what it means practically, Brits will have to register details including fingerprints and facial images before scanning their passports when they first visit a country in the Schengen area.

Content creator Just Deano arrived at Tenerife South Airport earlier than he normally would after hearing “horror stories”.

Some people in recent weeks have claimed that machines have been failing by rejecting fingerprints — while others have missed flights because of the delays this has caused.

One Brit wrote: “The key is to arrive three hours early so at least you are in the front of the queue when problems start.”

Another said: “Love Tenerife but HATE the airport.”

However, speaking about his own experience, Deano said: “That EES system, Entry/Exit system, was a piece of cake, you don’t have to do your fingerprints. We were in and out in 30 seconds. Literally 30 seconds. Straight to the e- gate. Put your passport in, went through no problem.”

But the catch here is that if it is your first time travelling to a European country this year, you will have to register your fingerprints, which is what has caused a lot of the carnage.

As was in Deano’s case, once you have registered your biometrics once, that information is then stored for three years, meaning you won’t have to keep repeating the process on each trip in Europe. However, some passengers have claimed they are having to repeat it and are therefore getting stuck.

Summing up his experience, Deano said: “But let me tell you people, don’t worry about the entry exit system, just forget the fingerprints (if already registered). We walk straight past the machines and just go to the e-gate as if you would as if you were getting your passport stamped. No need to worry. Absolutely fine. Even though it’s busy as anything here.

“I would imagine when all these people that are in here are going through that gate, going through that e-gate, you would get a little bit of a queue, but it takes about 10 seconds per person. So don’t worry at all.”

Despite Deano, who is from Huddersfield, not suffering from the new travel rules, some people wrote underneath the video, which you can watch here, that it wasn’t that easy for everyone.

One person wrote: “I have had my fingerprints taken on a few occasions now, did a full EES in Rome and about 5 times again. Didn’t work in Berlin, so hopefully Poland will be better.”

Another said: “Poor advice that Deano about the EES. Tell those stranded at the airport in Lanzarote yesterday as the plane left without them. I think it comes down to the number of flights departing to the UK at or around the same time. Summer is going to be a disaster.”

A third said: “I used the EES six weeks ago and still had to get in line for it again on Monday.”

One person added: “Lucky you – perhaps the delay did you a favour – we had to wait in a queue for over an hour with passport machines being very temperamental (we had done our fingerprints going into country) but both of still ended getting an actual border guy manually dealing with us and many others due to the machines.”

A fifth simply added: “EES, it is not as easy as you state deano.”