[BlondeMommy34D]

My husband and I watched it last night...
Rhonda gets such a bad wrap as the bitch or bad girl...
She's just a woman doing everything she can to keep another woman from taking what's hers...
And she does it amazingly well I might add!
Those other women are just as catty and mean but they seem to get a pass from the public because they want a hug after they lose?

Whatever...They got what they deserved ;-)

[krizanti]

...or in next yr's SI Swimsuit cover or at least among those pages..how bout you guys (or women ..didnt mean to exclude you) ?

She is already on this year's Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue...no need to wait until next year ;-) Just google you'll find out.

[JT Edson]

OK guys- First off, Rhonda R is not "mean" she is world class professional athelete dedicated to being the best and that means winning fights, but you say how she went to comfort Cat in her moment of shocked defeat after those 14 seconds. She also did not talk down Zingano or gloat in front fo probably the biggest live audience she willl ever have. I realize what site I am at, but sport fight is not about fighting angry. Fighting angry is fighting stupid, in competitions like this. I know from experience. Yeah this is bite and scratch central, but Rousey/Zingano is not a catfight. interesting huh? the best place to find real women really fighting is so different from what he focus is here.

Next, realistic fighters would say, I always thought, you are better 'on that day', in that particualr fight. But yes, "pound for pound" standard, She is the very best fmale figher there is. She is astounding.

for the first time in my life I got the $60 PPV, and despite the main fight lasting only 14 seconds it was worth the $--- because I got to see a real long drama play out as it did in fact, got to see how Zingano came in, the look in their eyes just before the ref waved them in, I got to FEEL it, to be there inside the experience.
I don't know how to say it. I have trained some at a pretty competitive level and...I don't know how to express what just watching can do, the emotions it triggers in me.

It is not really given enough attention but both these fighters, in physical measures, in preparation were as evenly matched and prepared for this as is possble to be. What makes the difference then is what happens in the fighter's soul, her inmost self, the moment you step off, and the element of fight-luck, also often ignored as a factor. Your opponent strikes for a target but it is deflected off your guard to hit an even higher value place a tight hook to the liver glances off a forearm guard and hits into he plexus- how do you handle it, that kind of thing. fight-luck always is a factor. BUT it is never less a factor than fighting someone as well trained as Rousey, with her kind of professional attitude.

Zingano's fire tends to overwhelmed her smarts. I have seen her open with the kind of flying knee thrust she tried to use at ufc184, and it worked. Rhonda simply stepped aside and her judo instincts took over, she did a judo transition into a jj style armbar and Cat was cooked. I know Zingano is devastated,but she has come back from worse. 

Now if only there was a way to get Rhonda and Chris cyborg to fight! I don't see it for personal reasons and the weight difference, but WOW what a war that could be!

Had to say something, this stuff just gets to me on so many levels. Yeah, maybe I do belong at another site ~chuckle~

You expressed yourself well. There is nothing wrong with what you said. I have a different understanding now of the fight.

[krizanti]

If Rousey wants the Cyborg fight why doesn't she just go up to 145? Cause she started her career there so what is the issue?

just saying...

1-Neither Rousey nor Cyborg are street fighters that they would meet at a parking lot and fight
2-Rousey is a contracted fighter of UFC and Cyborg is not. UFC decides who she fights and she has never dodged any fighter she was pitted against.
3-UFC has only 2 weight categories... 115lb and 135lb. Dana White declared a number of times that if Cyborg wants to fight at UFC, she has to make the weight.

BTW, Cyborg's real weight is 175lb, on Thursday at the weigh-ins for Invicta FC she barely made the 145lb but on Friday the fight night she was already 170lb. The fighter she beat in 45 seconds was also beaten by Rousey in 40 seconds early in her career.

[sinclairfan]

4 - Rousey does not want to leave 135, because then her archrival Miesha Tate eventually becomes the 135 champ.

[krizanti]

If Rousey wants the Cyborg fight why doesn't she just go up to 145? Cause she started her career there so what is the issue?

just saying...

1-Neither Rousey nor Cyborg are street fighters that they would meet at a parking lot and fight
2-Rousey is a contracted fighter of UFC and Cyborg is not. UFC decides who she fights and she has never dodged any fighter she was pitted against.
3-UFC has only 2 weight categories... 115lb and 135lb. Dana White declared a number of times that if Cyborg wants to fight at UFC, she has to make the weight.

BTW, Cyborg's real weight is 175lb, on Thursday at the weigh-ins for Invicta FC she barely made the 145lb but on Friday the fight night she was already 170lb. The fighter she beat in 45 seconds was also beaten by Rousey in 40 seconds early in her career.

Cyborg has a contract with Invicta, which is owned by the UFC

Plus fighters losing a lot of weight and then rehydrating happens all the time (see Canelo Alveraz/Julio Cesar Chavez Jnr)

Plus Dana White has said in the past he would do a catchweight for GSP vs Anderson Silva, so why not for this fight?

I am not in a position to answer questions for Dana but don't forget that he also asserted he would never have women fighting at the UFC. It may even be his marketing strategy...first create some hype and then make it happen.

My personal opinion; if you are the undefeated champ at a certain weight and I am the challenger...it is me who has to make the weight to fight you not the other way around.

[sinclairfan]

If Rousey wants the Cyborg fight why doesn't she just go up to 145? Cause she started her career there so what is the issue?

just saying...

1-Neither Rousey nor Cyborg are street fighters that they would meet at a parking lot and fight
2-Rousey is a contracted fighter of UFC and Cyborg is not. UFC decides who she fights and she has never dodged any fighter she was pitted against.
3-UFC has only 2 weight categories... 115lb and 135lb. Dana White declared a number of times that if Cyborg wants to fight at UFC, she has to make the weight.

BTW, Cyborg's real weight is 175lb, on Thursday at the weigh-ins for Invicta FC she barely made the 145lb but on Friday the fight night she was already 170lb. The fighter she beat in 45 seconds was also beaten by Rousey in 40 seconds early in her career.

Cyborg has a contract with Invicta, which is owned by the UFC

Plus fighters losing a lot of weight and then rehydrating happens all the time (see Canelo Alveraz/Julio Cesar Chavez Jnr)

Plus Dana White has said in the past he would do a catchweight for GSP vs Anderson Silva, so why not for this fight?

I am not in a position to answer questions for Dana but don't forget that he also asserted he would never have women fighting at the UFC. It may even be his marketing strategy...first create some hype and then make it happen.

My personal opinion; if you are the undefeated champ at a certain weight and I am the challenger...it is me who has to make the weight to fight you not the other way around.

Amen to this.  When Gina Carano was champ, Rousey broke in at Carano's weight in order to pursue a match with her.