Rousey is great, and her loss has not upset that fact, though she is said to be devasted. Imagine how she felt, kept overnight in a hospital bed for observation after suffering a ONE strike clean KO defeat! WOW!!
I am glad to be to have said in my previous post asking, asking if RR had become boring, that Holm could win this fight:though I did say I thought it unlikely.
One thing that deserves special note is how mature, and even hunble, Holly “the preacher’s daughter”, has been about her victory. Rousey had been trashing Miesha Tate, and was dismissive of Holm. What a chance for huge bragging from the one to KO her!! Instead Holm has been praising all her trainers and supporters. She has also recognized Rousey’s ability and all she has done to bring WMMA into the spotlight. What a classy attitude from a woman who is now the first and only woman to hold both a world championship title in boxing and a world title in mma. Holly has had the perfect response for the one who finally took Rousey to a defeat. and OH YEAH is she ever hott..
I agree with the many who are saying,; Rhonda was largely the victim of the hype about her, and of her own ego in not respecting Holm, and figuring this would be another fast win for her. Rousey is no boxer, though she has been training to sharpen her stand-up for the Holm fight. She is not used to getting hit in the head, nor being taken past the first round. I wonder if Rousey didn’t get freaked and pissed, and that plus ego was the losing mix for her? “Fight mad-fight stupid” is was I got told, and partly learned. Maybe Rousey getting hit so solid from the start got an “I’ll show YOU, nobody does that to ME!!!“ reaction from her, plus shaking her focus. Why else would Rousey box a champion boxer with over 30 wins?
Holm always seems to me to have a reach like she is twice as tall as she is. She has a surprising ability to fight from the outside, picking her opponent apartf from outside and then moving away from counters. She also did such a beautiful job of moving around Rousey after a hit and firing from new angles. What could Rousey have done, really except get Holm down and wrestle? Now Rousey should deal with it, fight Tate and Cris Cyborg, and Holm should also fight both of them. Imagine the the rematch when Rousey will be fighting Holm again to win back “her precious”. We are heading for an interesting future in wmma contests.
Rhonda’s constant winning had gotten a bit boring to some. I wonder also if any think her domination of the bantamweight division , and her rep of invincibility, had become a sort of roadblock to the progress of women’s mma. Holm and her sister fighters have defeated many roadblocks to WMMA going even stronger, and reminded everyone about the true champion’s spirt. GO HOLLY!!
