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Futhermore, you keep saying "occupation". It's not an occupation.
Quote from: |iR|Focalor on November 18, 2015, 03:00:40 AMHaven't read too many blogs and articles since the fight, but I can imagine she's getting absolutely shatted upon in heaping monstrous proportions. Not just because she lost, but because of the way she lost. My fucking god, it was like watching a Russian chess champ play a 6th grader. I enjoyed this breakdown and analysis:http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2015/11/16/9740872/ufc-193-rousey-vs-holm-sober-play-by-play-bad-coach-wasnt-rondas-only-failure-analysis
Haven't read too many blogs and articles since the fight, but I can imagine she's getting absolutely shatted upon in heaping monstrous proportions. Not just because she lost, but because of the way she lost. My fucking god, it was like watching a Russian chess champ play a 6th grader.
Quote from: |iR|Focalor on November 18, 2015, 03:00:40 AMI always liked Ronda Rousey. But her attitude for this last fight was WAAAY the fuck too out of whack. You could tell at the weigh-in, she was fucking scared. She was continuing to talk smack, trying to get mean and angry about it, but it just shifted to her almost busting out into tears the longer she went out about it. And she's gotten worse and worse about the shit talk with each fight, obviously trying to hype the drama and sell more PPV's. But I honestly don't think that bullshit sells more subscriptions.Yeah, that manufactured drama in the weigh-in was just... unnecessary. I was beginning to wonder how much of it was an act (Ronda in prior interviews had stated she likes to play the "heel") vs. Ronda scoring an own goal against her own psyche by actually convincing herself she was embroiled in some major personality drama that only existed in her own mind.
I always liked Ronda Rousey. But her attitude for this last fight was WAAAY the fuck too out of whack. You could tell at the weigh-in, she was fucking scared. She was continuing to talk smack, trying to get mean and angry about it, but it just shifted to her almost busting out into tears the longer she went out about it. And she's gotten worse and worse about the shit talk with each fight, obviously trying to hype the drama and sell more PPV's. But I honestly don't think that bullshit sells more subscriptions.
Why did Raquel Pennington have better success? Because she's fucking better at boxing obviously. She kept her chin down and both hands up high right in front of her face with her elbows forward, like any competent boxer would block. Rousey's chin was straight out, her mouth was open, and her right hand was sorta high, but it was CONSTANTLY out and about 90 degrees AWAY from her. And a lot of that had to do with the sideways karate stance she was taking. When you stand like that, an opponent knows that if shit gets hot in the pocket, all they gotta do is duck and slide to the right and then counter the living the fuck out of you. And this kinda shit is why so many of the female fighters in the UFC are just embarrassing to watch. It's their full time job, they train constantly at it, and yet they STILL have such bad technique.