You’re right. I wasn’t considering how quickly public opinion of Rousey might change as well.
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Rousey had better avoid mirrors for a while or she’ll be forced to see a human.
This take is dumb as fucking dog shit.
Exactly. Rousey sometimes says reasonable things, but she whines and pouts far too much for any adult.
Hmm... You are leaving out the part where he says she would be “insane” to try the kick in the first place.
It is of course always easy to see in hindsight, but I agree completely that there were a lot of signs of problems, even to the degree that I did start see some analysts really starting to worry how they would affect the fight. For Luke Thomas from MMAFighting, the closer the fight got, the more he seemed to be…
Uh except the whole aticle was about how Holm could not win and if she did it could only be a fluke. This was no damn fluke. Holm dominated.
One helluva left kick to do that to Greg. I assume he’ll be going through Deadspin’s concussion protocol.
>off a left head kick
That was no lucky kick to the head. Holm was putting on a boxing lesson the whole time.
Ronda never fought anyone that knew how to sprawl and brawl. Holly Holm went to the Chuck Liddell style of fighting. Aggressive but technical striking and wrestling/grappling to avoid takedowns , sweep up from the take down and keep the fight on the feet. People wrote off Holly, but I didn’t. She’s a 16 time women’s…
Yeah i was thinking the same thing, may have been wrong in the article title but damn if that wasn’t spot on with the ending
Not really. It was silly to think an elite striker had no chance against someone who has never been tested in her MMA career.
Not really. Even without the kick, Holm’s dominated the fight. Straight up, she kicked the shit outta Rousey.
She’s a goddamn hypocrite. She got what she deserved. A slice of humble pie!!!
Ronda was pretty much done before that left neck kick. Holly gave her the perfect storm.
to be fair, she didn’t need that kick to end it. another 2 minutes of face punching would have had the same result. Rousey was chasing that whole fight.
The thing is, Ronda probably thought it was PR bullshit. And she didn’t realize it wasn’t until it was too late.
And since I know that this will be buried underneath the main event, Letourneu put up a great fight, but damn is JJ a technical striking nightmare to face. Especially since I think she fought the last couple of rounds with something wrong with her hand and still put up a clinic.