If it’s easier to see the screen at a vertical angle than a horizontal/diagonal one because of glare, I can understand this.

I wonder if Whaley is a GM the same way Milton Waddams was a collator.

Problem is that nobody asks Mariah to do anything on camera anytime EXCEPT Christmas anymore.

Everyone should call him “that dude who won X Factor, Taylor Hicks or something.”

This is all a completely planned and arranged publicity stunt to get Mariah some attention as she becomes increasingly desperate and irrelevant.

Paying to go to the gym is a lot like paying for guitar lessons.

Man, he’s just so happy to be there.

The 49ers are the west coast Skins.

Because she let her pride get the best of her and assumed she could outstrike a striker to prove a point when the only striking she’s ever had any real proficiency in was up-close/in the clinch dirty boxing en route to a takedown.

I’m gonna go ahead and float the theory that, given her performance, Ronda didn’t go “into character” here because she’d given up on a comeback and this wasn’t shit but a last paycheck to her by the time the weigh-ins rolled around.

She fought that fight like I did in Mortal Kombat: non-stop offense and never even thought of using the “block” button.

That is correct, yes. Rousey is the bigger star and so she commands the bigger paycheck.

It’s an MMA thing.

Well, no, she won’t command as high a price tag anymore, but that’s exactly WHY Vince was probably on the phone with her people before they even announced the winner. She’s got a lower price tag AND probably no commitments now that you have to think her MMA career is over.

This. The lack of trash talk in the build that they spun as her being “serious” struck me as highly suspicious and then her sluggish movement in the cage confirmed, to me, what I suspected: she gave up. The idea of going back was more fun than the act itself and halfway through her training, she gave up.

I look at it like this.

She already stated that this was going to be her last hurrah. She wants/wanted to have a few more fights, recapture the belt and retire/move on.

She already kinda launched (I think; not sure if it’s trademarked or not) the “Don’t Be A D(o) N(othing) B(itch)“ “brand,” so yeah, I’m pretty sure that’s where it’s headed for her.

This. She’s still every bit as good as she ever was (if she tries), but she let her pride puff her up into thinking she could stand and trade with elite level strikers when she was always better off shooting low and trying to take it to the ground.

Eh. We already do that with child porn (which is absolutely the wrong kind of porn; carve it in marble). Nobody wants to go slipsliding down the hillside of BDSM porn and the like.