RRR's strategy was probably to win in the first 30 seconds...when that didn't pan out, they didn't know what to tell her since they didn't think they needed a Plan B. Guess they believed all of the media hype before the match....
yup.
I'm surprised Rousey kept the same strat in round2.
would have figured that her corner would tell her to take holms down.
cant wait to hear what Rousey has to say about her lack of takedown attempts
After she didn't touch gloves with Holly, I wanted Ronda to lose.
If it started at 7PM eastern time why were people packed into the sports bar at 11:30 watching it? Is the replay really that exciting?
Dana has his hand in his pockets. Given that he is obviously very upset you can tell he is thinking of all the revenues he just lost. Also if that is Loretto, he does not look like he is in a very good mood right now.
They are not losing any revenues. Geez Louise, knock it off.
In any case, I wish I wasn't sick with food poisoning last night. Missed the damn fight.
Maybe it's just me but I'm thinking Rhonda could actually make the cut to 115? She looked "thick."
Genetics work as genetics, not as just making you better in every way possible. If she has the natural genetics to make her stocky, at least for a girl, then she probably can not get down to 115 even if a girl with the same nonmuscle mass as her can. Genetics can have a baseline of generated muscle, and if you do not get that amount of nutrition and muscle your body can make a pompous righteous fit.
Those who live by the sword die by the sword.
It's only a matter of time when you fight to finish you eventually get finished.
Anderson Silva
Wanderlei Silva
Rashad Evans
Lyoto Machida
Chuck Liddell
GSP
Mike Tyson
And of course there are many more. All of these guys look unbeatable until their first loss.
Rhonda will come back. The problem is she never faced someone with the physical size, poise, and most importantly the striking technique to keep her off them.
The biggest problem with her and the rematch is how can she make up the 15 years of striking experience Holly has on her? That is a tough nut to crack. And now there is a game plan on how to beat her for other fighters to follow. And there will be cracks in her aura of invincibility, both within herself, and with her opponents.
If it started at 7PM eastern time why were people packed into the sports bar at 11:30 watching it? Is the replay really that exciting?
http://fightland.vice.com/blog/the-night-of-female-champions-can-joanna-steal-rondas-thunderThere has always been a tendency to pretend that because someone is winning now, they are perfect. It happened with Anderson Silva, B.J. Penn, Georges St. Pierre and it will happen with anyone who ever picks up a UFC strap and holds it for a couple of defencss. But they weren't perfect and neither is Rousey. Rousey's greatest flaw is in that boxing that she trains constantly. She hits well, and hard, and that is more than enough if opponents are already terrified of getting locked in a clinch with you. Her problem is in the craft. The movement of the feet. The difference between the charge and the taking of space is key. Mike Tyson was accused of charging opponents but really what he did was crowd them until they threw a punch at him. They would miss his constantly bobbling head and then he would counter. His head was always working to evade while his feet were always working to engage.
A charge is a rapid advance on a straight line.
The problem with charging forwards is that it relies on speed and gives a fighter very little control to change direction. If you are bursting straight forwards and the opponent cuts an angle out to the left or right, you have an instant to react or you're busy moving past them like a bull past a matador. It is clumsy but most importantly it is labor intensive. Miss charges for a round and it doesn't matter if you're Joe Average or an endurance athlete, you are going to wear yourself out. That and even against lower tier opponents like Correia, the charging fighter will eat a ton of punches to the face. It is not a method which favors bout longevity. In a division of competent hitters it is an invitation to be knocked out.
There's been plenty of fighters in the men's divisions who charged straight forward time and again. Then the sport grew a bit and bull rushing stopped working. Fortunately, everyone that Rousey has fought, instead of circling out or flat out running away, has decided to try their hand at knocking her out. As soon as a fighter squares up to throw their power hand, whether they miss or land, they are in position to be tied up. And it has happened every single time.
Now as I've said before, the best way to go about beating an 'unbeatable' champion is to not focus on countering them or looking for cheap exploits for that one shot knockout. It is to take away their bread and butter and make them work a game they aren't used to. Think Anderson Silva being forced to lead, Georges St. Pierre with no jab, Renan Barao without his right low kick, Jon Jones without his low line kicks. So rather than saying “gotta work on that takedown defense” or “get yourself a judo coach,” let's work on reverse engineering the Rousey A-game, because so far no one has done that.
It's been said that women's MMA is ten years behind the men's game. The references to Rousey as the Royce Gracie of women's MMA certainly seem to support that. The lesson that most learned at UFC 1 was “wow this ground fighting is really something”. The real lesson should have been that it is very, very difficult to avoid the clinch.
You miss a punch, you're in the clinch. You land a punch, you're in the clinch. You don't punch, they walk straight in and you're in the clinch. Against Gracie it was bad for the confused nobodies he was fighting, against Rousey even a veteran grappler is in bad shape when they get to the clinch with her.
So for a long time in mixed martial arts there was an attitude of “I better knock this guy out before he gets to the clinch”. Wild right hands and intercepting knee attempts abounded, and they very seldom worked. And yet, that's exactly where we are in the women's bantamweight division right now. The vast majority of Rousey's opponents come out and immediately try to hit her as hard as they can with varied degrees of panicked flailing.
Here was the opening ten seconds from Miesha Tate.
I'm not even going to touch the quality of the boxing right now (I'll talk a little bit about that later when we get to Bethe Correia), the most important thing to note is that every time Tate throws the right hand, she squares up—as anyone does—and that gives Rousey the clinch with no trouble at all and nothing between her and Rousey to at least make it awkward for her.
And every time the fight got back to the feet, Tate would swing wild and end up chest-to-chest with the Olympian, just in time to get dumped on her back.
http://fightland.vice.com/blog/killing-the-queen-ronda-rouseyI will say it right now, unless someone pulls off that fluke knockout as Rousey steps in, no-one is going to stop her from tying them up without moving their feet, holding off on their power hand, and circling away.
I'm sure they'll setup a rematch asap so Rousey can get her title back. They need someone marketable, after all.
RRR's strategy was probably to win in the first 30 seconds...when that didn't pan out, they didn't know what to tell her since they didn't think they needed a Plan B. Guess they believed all of the media hype before the match....