So the fight starts with both women throwing some wild haymakers that don't come close. Amanda is throwing overhands at a 12 o'clock to 6 o'clock angle which is a decidedly odd punch. Maybe they saw something while they were studying tapes that made them think Cyborg would be vulnerable to that. Anyway, for a short while they were just shadowboxing.
Here's the first contact of the fight: Nunes kicks Cyborg's ankle out from under her, and while Cyborg is off balance, Nunes lands a right hook to the cheek.
This just seems to make Cyborg mad. Cyborg chases after her and connects with a body shot. She backs Nunes against the cage, and that's where the second significant exchange happens:
Both women fire short rights, but while Cyborg's punch is mostly blocked by Amanda's left wrist, Amanda's punch connects dead on Cyborg's chin and puts her down. From there, the Lioness was out for blood.
The low frame rate of these gifs makes it look like Amanda's fists are comets or have vapor trails behind them. They're not quite that fast, but she has really fast hands. Yesterday I read somebody saying "she punches like Chuck Liddell". I think that's actually a good comparison. Chuck's whole career was built around that devastating overhand right that he could fire so quickly and so accurately. Amanda is doing the same thing here. Her distance control is perfect: she throws long punches, but she's not over-extending, and she's not compacting her swing to fit it in range either. She uses her footwork to keep Cyborg at just the right range. That's what makes these punches so powerful.
How tough is Cyborg to take a rocket like this right on the cheek and bounce right back to her feet?
Here is the Lioness just teeing off on Cyborg. Cyborg tries to grab Nunes to try to stop the onslaught, but Nunes just shrugs her off.
And this is the final blow. Cyborg throws a straight left, but Nunes slips it and fires an overhand right over top of it that catches Cyborg right under the ear. Cyborg crumples, base over apex. Nunes knew she'd won before Cyborg even hit the canvas.
This is the final 15 seconds of the fight, to put all the above clips (except the first) into context.
-k