Tabatha Ricci

A judoka from Birigui, Brazil who's been throwing people since age six, now a fixture of the strawweight top 10. Her ceiling fights have gone the wrong way — decisions dropped to Yan Xiaonan and Virna Jandiroba — but she stopped Amanda Ribas with second-round ground-and-pound last summer. At 5'1" she gives up size everywhere and makes up for it in the clinch. She stepped into this bout as the replacement after Ribas withdrew.