Comments Thread For: Rousey: Mayweather Beats Me in Boxing, Not in a Fight

[arraamis]

It's amazing how the media can delude people into thinking they are something they're not. Here she's thinking she's one of the greats and all the little sheep listen to Joe Rogan bltch and yell and they follow suit when the rest of us really just see her as holes to insert ourselves in.

Exactly!!!
Many people have lost the ability to be independent thinkers.

[Ham Porter]

A prime Agassi beats a prime Venus or Serena any day.

Agassi? Karsten Braasch, when he was ranked outside the top 200, breezed past both sisters in a single morning years back. Wasn't even remotely competitive.

A lot of ignorance on display here: First lets remember that before Billy jean King handled Bobby Riggs it was unthinkable a man with skills could lose to a woman player.

LOL, Riggs was in his 50's & still managed to outclass one of the greatest female tennis players ever before he even played King, and he may have even thrown the King match.

Those stunts merely proved his point: competitive female sports, even at the highest level, are vastly inferior to competitive male sports.

[FrankieBruno]

She is 100% right

Floyd isnt a fighter, Rousey would dislocate his shoulders when he tries to do the roll

[Mr.Daddy]

It's nice that Ronda is confident, but she doesn't have a clue about a real fight. Anybody who is at all creative and can throw an effective jab can also figure out strike an opponent in the eye with little to no difficulty. Fight's over and Ronda's off to the emergency room. Just to be clear, this is only one of countless ways for Floyd to win. Ronda is delusional thinking that she's have any chance against him.

[arraamis]

Agassi? Karsten Braasch, when he was ranked outside the top 200, breezed past both sisters in a single morning years back. Wasn't even remotely competitive.

Isn't that the guy who had a smoke during the game??

That was when both sisters were still green and wet, but funny and proved a point none the less.

[Bring It On]

Did she just say that she can beat anyone on the planet in a fight?

How on earth has she been cleared to fight? Obviously mentally ill.

[Mr.Daddy]

A lot of ignorance on display here: First lets remember that before Billy jean King handled Bobby Riggs it was unthinkable a man with skills could lose to a woman player.

1) size and strength in the ratio of man to woman do not help one escape a properly applied arm bar. If Rousey got Floyd's arm he would tap. When done properly it is the strength of rhonda's entire body against the hinge of the elbow...think about that for a second. My 110 pound wife against my 260 pound (mostly muscle) arm would be no contest. Your hips lock in the shoulder, you pull the arm to your chest and now as you bend your bending with your core muscles against one of the weakest joints in the body.

2) Its not a given Floyd would catch Rhonda with a punch folks. MMA folks have come a long way since inouki fought Ali...head down, Floyd's brittle hands would catch Rhonda's forehead the hardest bone in the body per its mass. If Rhonda pulls him down he is as fvked as if she is caught by one of his shots. Yu see heres the thing, there is no rule that a grappler has to stand up and fight in a manner where a punch can land.

The truth is, if Floyd gets pulled down by a world class Judoka who is a lot weaker physically he is in trouble because even though wrestling neutralizes Judo techniques in many respects, Judo works very well against superior strength....It took until the mid to late sixties for a very strong man to win Judo honors.... Before that time japanese men who were usually not as physically strong dominated....and Geezink, the Dutchman who won it, was a good technician.

Rhonda has a chance in this one!

You are almost as delusional as Rousey is. It would be nice if Ronda had any chance, but she would not, and the beatdown (in a real fight) would truly be sad - and ugly.

[kafkod]

Dana White "We've entered Mike Tyson territory here (with Rousey)"

Media/fans "Rousey is the most dominate fighter since Mike Tyson!"

Mike Tyson: "Call me when she does prison time for raping a man"

[johnm is...]

She won't even fight her biggest FEMALE competition.

[billeau2]

You can't apply an armbar on somebody who is much stronger than you because you won't be able to straighten their arm out.

In a ruleless fight their are things you can do to prevent an armbar even by someone as strong as you, things you are not allowed to do under MMA rules.

EG, attacking their groin, or peeling back one of their fingers and breaking it.

You can do a lot of things to prevent an armbar...But your wrong about strength and an armbar. When the position is obtained it is virtually the person's entire body against a weak hing joint on the elbow. Your bicept is strongest and is designed to work by twisting, not in an up and down curl motion and cannot resist being pulled straight at a perpendicular angle.

Nobody has an arm that strong in that position. When its applied what one sees as a spectator is misleading. The hips are dug into the opponent's arm while his shoulder is isolated and the opponent's head is turned away. The arm becomes part of your body at this point, you don't pull the arm down (which is what it looks like) which is a rookie mistake. You jut your hips out and straighten out with the arm on your chest...the person on the ground at this point has the kinetic force of you doing this aggressively (velocity), the force of gravity because your body straightening out becomes weight which your arm has to hold up to resist the straightening.... Finally, you are pulling the arm out at the shoulder as you straighten, which makes it impossible to use your other muscles to resist the arm straightening.