Rousey’s issues are simply she isn’t as great a fighter as the plethora of pieces on Deadspin and elsewhere would have you believe. She’s been great against what amounted to inferior competition, but what I saw in all of her fights was a sloppy fighter who could afford to be sloppy since her opponents simply didn’t…

And that, I believe, is why she kept the fight on its feet.

Rousey’s previous opponents also always thought they could beat her going toe to toe and Rousey alway beat the crap out of them with, as you said, pure aggression, etc. When Holmes played a more technical and smarter fight Rousey got flustered and tried to steamroll her and kept falling into counter punches, and…

It’s funny that in retrospect this is all so obvious, but it’s true. Rousey was always a sloppy fighter who got away with it because of pure aggression, athleticism and good opportunistic grappling. But she was so successful with it that it was easy to ignore the fact that all it was going to take was someone with…

Nailed it!

Yeah I love how no one give Holly credit for being a far more decorated Boxer than Ronda was as a Judoka. Ronda was 4th in the olympics. They give 2 bronze medals. Holly is a 16 time world champ, 2 time Ring women's boxer of the year. She more Mike Tyson than Buster Douglas.

When you’ve been called the most dominant athlete on the planet and you get embarrassed like she apparently did, the house of cards will collapse. She has been everywhere, on every mag, hosting sportscenter... She had become a massive star... When a massive star is defeated, it’s shocking and yes, if I were a decision…

Have you never watched a Rousey fight? That is what she does every fight. Walk forward, swing, try take downs. Rinse and repeat.

She didn’t just lose, she got the crap beat out if her and ko’ed.

She’s just a terrible boxer and he’s a terrible boxing coach. Simple. She probably believed in her striking a lot more because, how could she not with her last 4 fights? But even then, go watch her stand up striking in those matches. It was crazy sloppy, but no one could handle the pressure she put on them.

Nothing was off at all, her boxing is just terrible, go back and watch her other fights, she's a terrible striker, she's just been coasting on other girls not being able to handle her aggression.

“She goes into that fight coached well and fights as the world-class Judoka she is, Holly is tapping inside of the first round.”

Does she really have a great fight IQ? She just rag-dolled people who were not as strong as her and arm barred them. Doesn’t take a brilliant strategist to beat up a bunch of people who are incredibly overmatched.

Something was off, in that she got her ass kicked by a superior striker who trained harder instead of going on a presser tour

“Holly Holm almost certainly can’t win for such and such reasons, but if she does it will probably be off a left head kick” holds up as a reasonable take in retrospect.

Anyone whos actually watched Rousey fight or I guess try to fight those human punching bags they’ve had her fight could. She fought someone whos actually been fighting most of their life like her and she got destroyed. Thank god Cyborg didn’t lose that weight.

Bounce back? from that? She didn’t just lose the fight she got humilated. She can go armbar Holm next week and it changes nothing. She got exposed, and when she had to fight someone her own size, she got destroyed. period. Champions are always prepared and even if they lose they still look like a champ, she looked…

As I said earlier Rousey is the most OVERRATED fighter in the world. She got humilated against a real fighter. This wasnt a loss this was pure annihilation by a girl who’s also been fighting her whole life and not another job squader that Rousey has fought her whole career.

Yeah, Tyson has a legit gripe on that one. He looks like he beats the count. Ain’t no spinning this one for Rousey.

I agree about the play, but why did you finish your comment with the Aussie Pledge of Allegiance?