Yep. However, those very same people were chuckling 9 years earlier when this happened:

That’s what I’m saying. After the first round, RR’s corner was telling her what a great job she was doing. That they actually believed what they were saying is incomprehensible to me, unless their goal was getting RR’s face re-arranged. If she had gone off-script, somebody would have said something about it. RR was…

We could troll Fox News by calling him “X-taps”.

Exactly! Let’s pitch this shit!

Yeah! Like, on Netflix, or something. Rob is a generally jocular Uber driver who suddenly morphs into a dark, twisted maniac whenever anyone mentions “defensive driving”.

Well, I agree with some of that. But, it’s not her fault that there was no legit competition. I think that the way she looked against Holm demonstrated that she was ill-prepared for the fight —— partially due to the fact that, as you said, she had not faced a standup kick boxer of HH’s caliber but, mostly, because her…

Really? She fought everybody in that division. It’s not like she was dodging anybody. Who was left?

Rob Ryan: I’ll be out of work for, like, 5 minutes.

Why not just call him by his name? What is there, a War On Kristaps?

Cool.

Great. Once again, the NFL comes with yet another ex post facto admission of error, and completely ignores the dire consequences of their actions.

Just funnin’, pal. I know a number of psychologists and so forth because of my work, so that line has come in handy, on occasion. It’s gone over rather well with those who are fellow Rocky & Bullwinkle fans. I was just looking for a laugh, and an excuse to use the pic —- not a Sick Burn. Hope you didn’t take it…

These are things that should have been addressed in RR’s camp —- apparently, they weren’t.

Ah, a fellow Internet Psychologist! Where did you get your degree? I did my post-grad work here:

Dominance in rec sport leagues generally doesn’t get you an Olympic bronze medal, tho.

Wow, thanks for the link! Rock-solid analysis.

“Rousey is without question the most overrated fighter in the history of the world.”

Well, that’s why they actually have fights. Projections and simulations are just conjecture, at the end of the day. It was certainly reasonable to expect that RR would have employed a strategy that did not have as one of its core concepts “getting hit in the face, repeatedly”. As it turned out, that expectation was…

Yeah, JJ’s fight should be very entertaining —- that is one vicious little individual, right there. I’m gonna have to catch the action later, via some off-the-books method. Too much spondulix to cough up for just a few, fleeting, moments of enjoyment ( a philosophy I wish I had adopted prior to dating my ex!).

I pretty much agree with your analysis, esp. about Holm’s striking. She is accurate, with excellent form and fast hands, but not a lot of power. She does feature a dangerous head kick too, so she does have the proverbial Puncher’s (or, in this case, Kicker’s) chance, if RR walks into something —- but, I don’t see that…