again what the hell does that have to do with women and men

yeah of course it’s not her fault the way the division is now, and frankly Rousey’s success probably made a bunch of young girls get interested. That’s good for the future.

She didn’t fight cans because she was cherry picking (outside of Cyborg, but there are weight issues there obviously). It’s because, for now, women’s MMA is a couple decades behind the men’s in terms of development. Most of the women got into mma later then the men, have less experience, and it shows.

People overlook shit like reach and such all the time in a fight when it’s a newcomer vs the favorite

Rousey will come around simply because she still is physically more talented than 99% of her peers now, but comparing her to Brock is insane.

seriously it needs to happen asap. That was embarassing. Rousey has been overrated for a while by virtue of being the best out of a very weak group, but holy hell

she’s badass and will historically be remembered as a trailblazer, but 15-25 years from now people will look back at those fights and laugh at how bad her opponents were, and how flawed she was

so now that’s two articles analyzing this fight. One said nothing, and this turd accuses anyone saying ROusey was crazy overrated of being insecure.

wahhhh why won’t anyone take a childish sports site seriously

Im saying as good as she is, the people she has faced by and large have sucked about as much as an amateur mma fighter.

lol deadspin producing good long form journalism

Rousey has always reminded me of those really good kids who tear up rec sport leagues. Yeah, they’re good, but they’re also beating shit and untested

How is it possible to write an article called ‘How Ronda Rousey lost’ and provide so little in the way of real analysis??

yeah. It really was amazing how unprepared Rousey was. She acted like it’s the first time someone had takedown defense

I agree, though I must add I think she’s legit that she’d be a top fighter even if women’s mma wasn’t so awful. But yeah this piece was trash like most of Greg’s stories. How the hell does Greg get all the original writing rather than regurgitating something he read elsewhere

Rousey is a legit good fighter, but otherwise I agree about women’s MMA being a joke, and her basially having a bunch of squash matches.

you don’t understand how fighting works if you think she’s doing bad by what she’s doing. Combat sports thrive on conflict and personalities. She knows that. Women’s mma is such shit overall no matter what this piece tries to say, but Rousey deserves much better. She’s such a goddamn stud all around.

oh cool another piece trying to convince us that women’s MMA isn’t total shit besides Rousey

because the boss made a bad joke?

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