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~
