Topic: Rousey vs. Holm
Rousey vs. Holm
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08.21.2015 | 9:02 AM ET
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08.21.2015 | 9:02 AM ET
Prediction: Rousey | Submission | Round 1
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08.21.2015 | 9:16 AM ET
In a tiny division, Holm hasn't fought anyone in the top 10.
Pennington was 16th
Renau was 13th
According to Wikipedia, there are 24 fighters in WBW excluding Rousey and Holm.
Holm hasn't had a win vs anyone in the top 50% of her division.
* Edited at 08.21.2015, 9:24 AM ET *
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08.21.2015 | 9:17 AM ET
Prediction: Rousey | Submission | Round 1
08.21.2015 | 9:31 AM ET
If she's not ready now, she never will be.
If anyone does have the blueprint for beating Ronda it's her. Not saying she will (though I hope she will), but I don't think there's any reason to postpone it anymore.
Holly's a great athlete, she's intelligent, her striking is leaps and bounds above Ronda's and Ronda's grappling's leaps and bounds above any other female in MMA. Holly won't get good enough a grappler to stop Ronda from taking her down from the clinch within the next 2-3 anyway (or ever for that), her only chance of keeping this fight in her realm will be using tools she already has in bunches (footwork, distance management, short non-committal strikes like hard jabs and kicks every time Ronda comes in, etc). If they don't do the job now, you can be sure she's not going to get good enough to do it when she's 36-37. The way she beats Ronda (if ever) isn't by getting good enough at grappling to stop her from taking her down, it's by going full Alexander Gustaffson on Ronda, and those are tools she already has. Ronda has an easier time taking other chicks down because they're so petrified of her they swing like mad-women looking for one-punch KOs (which most of them don't have in their arsenal), Holly won't do that.
If the division were a little deeper or less cleaned out, I'd say sure, lets test her against a top 10 fighter and then fight for the belt, but I don't see any difference between Ronda beating Meisha up for the 3rd time and Holly getting her first crack a little "too soon".
Also, I think that stylistically, Holly is more of a threat to Ronda than Miesha because even with Miesha's "improved striking" (it's stil awful), not sure it's better than Ronda's and Ronda has more power. Her strong suit is grappling and she can't grapple with Ronda, while as Holly, if she manages to stay there, will completely dominate one area of the fight, so there's that.
I would love to see Ronda try and fight Holly like she did Betche. It would be funny. She won't though because she's not stupid and Holly won't say anything about suicide, but it would be funny if she did.
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08.21.2015 | 9:31 AM ET
I guess the UFC thinks they could sell a predictable fight that no one has seen yet than a predictable fight we have seen twice already.
I would honestly rather see Rousey/Tate III than this fight. Not that the outcome would make a difference, but this fight may last a couple of minutes. At least with Tate, there is a good chance of use seeing more than a quarter of a round.
Holm just doesn't comprehend what she is getting into and not nearly ready enough to be in the same cage as Ronda.
@terrencetj, Ronda will never fight at 140. If we ever see that fight, Cyborg will have to somehow make 135. I don't understand how she isn't motivated to make that happen.
* Edited at 08.21.2015, 9:33 AM ET *
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08.21.2015 | 9:34 AM ET
08.21.2015 | 9:37 AM ET
I think she found out she's pregnant (just a hunch, because if it were an injury it would've been reported).
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08.21.2015 | 9:44 AM ET
08.21.2015 | 9:48 AM ET
"Why are you booing me? I am the GOAT. **** you." - Patricio "Pitbull" Freire
08.21.2015 | 9:49 AM ET
Prediction: Rousey | Submission | Round 1
08.21.2015 | 9:55 AM ET
"I don't understand how she isn't motivated to make that happen"
Because the only way she makes 135 is if she stops roiding, loses some muscle-mass and with that her only advantage in a fight with Ronda.
She knows why she's so far ahead of the rest of the women she fights and I think she lacks the self-confidence to find out how good a fighter she is without it. I see many insecurities in her which she can hide behind a hulkish physique, I don't think she wants them to get exposed.
EDIT:: Of course non of this is "scientific", just my couch-psychologist opinion.
* Edited at 08.21.2015, 9:57 AM ET *
"Hay lohh you Mike, ay lov you Mike. Hyou say somesing like di fo me, and naw I say you ... I LOV YOU! See you som. Boy." -- Yoel Romero, UFC 205
08.21.2015 | 10:00 AM ET
Prediction: Rousey | Submission | Round 1
08.21.2015 | 10:15 AM ET
"Hay lohh you Mike, ay lov you Mike. Hyou say somesing like di fo me, and naw I say you ... I LOV YOU! See you som. Boy." -- Yoel Romero, UFC 205
08.21.2015 | 10:17 AM ET
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08.21.2015 | 11:02 AM ET
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08.21.2015 | 11:07 AM ET
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08.21.2015 | 11:15 AM ET
Relevant to this thread...
Prediction: Rousey | Submission | Round 1
08.21.2015 | 11:16 AM ET
08.21.2015 | 11:38 AM ET
Prediction: Rousey | Submission | Round 1
That sucks I wanted to see Holm vs Nunes for contendership.
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08.21.2015 | 11:48 AM ET
Tate is the #1 contender while Holm is the #15 contender.
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