Despite the loss Rousey is still the best fighter in the 135-pound division, she got stupid and cocky with Holly and paid the price trying to stand up with her. can't see her making this mistake again.
Rousey took a long time to come back for two reasons.
1 - to get over her devastating loss
2 - to strengthen her weakness
I have $200.00 on Rousey and fully expect to profit a tidy $170.00 betting the favorite strait up. I'm watching the odds on 365 and might bet another $100.00 for a first round parlay.
Edit - Odds were too good to pass up, decided to give Nunes some credit and have her lasting till the 3rd round, bet $50.00 on Rousey winning in the 3rd and it pays a cool $850.00
Well shucks.
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Lol all it took was a 1,2 combo... over and over lol... damn
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maybe Shevchenko; another elite striker who last beat Holly Holm. I think she's beaten Joanna Jedrzejczyk in a kickboxing match. Obviously, Jedrzejczyk is an elite stiker, so to have beaten her (not MMA) illustrates her striking skills
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Rousey must have been very hurt from one of the first punches. We know striking isn`t her bread and butter but no ground specialist looks that bad on their feet.
I think she should never have taken all that time off. After Holm, she should have got right back in there. Time only added more pressure and she's too emotionally fragile to deal with that.
Rousey must have been very hurt from one of the first punches. We know striking isn`t her bread and butter but no ground specialist looks that bad on their feet.
Ronda has never looked good on her feet. Her boxing is some of the worst in MMA.
This shadow boxing clip sums it up perfectly. I think CM Punk looked less awkward.
Stolen joke but here is a gif of her striking coaches
Spoiler!
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Rousey must have been very hurt from one of the first punches. We know striking isn`t her bread and butter but no ground specialist looks that bad on their feet.
I think she should never have taken all that time off. After Holm, she should have got right back in there. Time only added more pressure and she's too emotionally fragile to deal with that.
From what I heard, after her loss to Holm, it was smart to take the long break to recover from the concussion. Once a fighter gets brutally KO'd, they are more susceptible to future knockouts.
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Ronda has never looked good on her feet. Her boxing is some of the worst in MMA.
This shadow boxing clip sums it up perfectly. I think CM Punk looked less awkward.
Stolen joke but here is a gif of her striking coaches
Spoiler!
Wow, when was that shadow boxing scene? She had put a lot of time into striking the last couple of years but that gif is unreal.
But, really, and I know it's easy to say now, doesn't judo suck? The throws can be useful but I can't recall it ever being factored in heavily on the tale of the tape.
RR had her run against an inferior (the first?) generation of women fighters. The field is catching up, and surpassing her. Her terrible coach should have seen that a long time ago. Not a bad legacy to be the female Royce Gracie though.
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From what I heard, after her loss to Holm, it was smart to take the long break to recover from the concussion. Once a fighter gets brutally KO'd, they are more susceptible to future knockouts.
That's true; too many fighters do come back too quickly. I'm surprised more fighters don't do what Jon Jones did recently and enter grappling or submission tournaments. No risk of concussion, little risk of injury, and you still get to keep a competitive edge.
Did Ronda do a post fight interview like she said she would? That was a complete embarrassment. She got her ass handed to her. 48 seconds!. She is done. Yes, she was a great fighter but now she's finished. Wow! what a fall from glory.
Wow, when was that shadow boxing scene? She had put a lot of time into striking the last couple of years but that gif is unreal.
But, really, and I know it's easy to say now, doesn't judo suck? The throws can be useful but I can't recall it ever being factored in heavily on the tale of the tape.
RR had her run against an inferior (the first?) generation of women fighters. The field is catching up, and surpassing her. Her terrible coach should have seen that a long time ago. Not a bad legacy to be the female Royce Gracie though.
I think you hit the nail on the head twice.
The fighters evolved and Rhonda either couldn't or wouldn't adjust. The biggest hole in her game was her stand up game, so the girls facing her kept her at leg and strike distance and didn't let her work inside to grapple. That was the end of Rhonda
Her coaches are a joke, yes Rhonda has to take the blame for retaining them, but at the same time these guys embarrassed themselves and her. And yes, Rhonda is brash and she's arrogant, which happens when you have that much success. But they should have at least modified her striking defense so she could work inside.
I said it before her footwork when standing was bad and her defense and use of her hands was weak.
Sadly Rhonda won't really go down as an Icon of the sport anymore, but an incomplete fighter who feasted as you said on a weaker first generation of fighters.
At the end of the day, her time has come, its time to walk away from the fight because she could have been seriously hurt in this fight and again that's on her coaches too.
I've been in a lot of fights in my younger days, and the secret to being good at it is confidence in what your throwing. Its also the ability to take a shot to give multiple shots. Rhonda had no confidence and she wobbled right off the start. She doesn't have the jaw for the really elite strikers that are going to take this game over for the next few years until someone learns to nullify it and get into grapple range.
It wasn't that long ago that the big debate was Rousey against Cyborg, but now we probably know the answer, that it would have been a devastating an painful loss.
Go to the WWE, or do small roles in movies, but Rhonda should never ever enter the octagon again.
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Did Ronda do a post fight interview like she said she would? That was a complete embarrassment. She got her ass handed to her. 48 seconds!. She is done. Yes, she was a great fighter but now she's finished. Wow! what a fall from glory.
It's on right now. Just Cody up there at the moment.
Nunez won't last long with that style though I get it she was against an opponent that wasn't a threat. But man, if she fights someone with a strike game and bad intentions with her hands down like that and throwing bombs like that she's going to get tagged.
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