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After that fight, the question that is left is...
How good was or is Ronda really?
I said after the Correia fight, that someone like Holm would beat Ronda when she gets more mma experience. Now, the experience thing apparently wasn't a factor at all but the skill set that Holm has was more than enough to handle Ronda.
All someone had to do was be patient and not play rock em sock'em robots with Ronda and they'd likely beat her. That is what I said. That is what Holly did.
After that fight though, to be completely honest. Ronda looked like the old Rich Franklin. The one who dominated 185 was a rockstar and then here comes some Brazilian dude from no where who put Leben to sleep with 3 punches and history is written.
Not to say Holm is the female version of Anderson Silva but Ronda, how good was she really? Is she just Rich Franklin who was just a big fish in a small talent pool? Or is she just someone like Carlos Condit or Daniel Cormier who got beat by the top dog but still clearly has the ability of a champion?
She fought a lot of mediocre women, to no fault of her own, the women in mma and ufc altogether aren't very refined yet. In the UFC alone, there's only 3 legit fighters who have legitimate fighting backgrounds. Two of them being Holm and Ronda, the third being Joanna. (Judo, Boxing, Muay Thai respectively. All high standard in their respective sport/art)
With the next best UFC woman being Meisha Tate or Cat Zingano and they aren't anywhere near the skill level of the aforementioned 3. Because they just dabbled with some cardio kickboxing/ wrestling and thought "Oh I can do this." Pretty much like the rest of the women in mma currently.
Ronda in that fight, honestly looked like a brawling Judoka. She has strength/power, okay. She is highly skilled in judo, okay. But she lacks intellect in the standup, like if this was boxing, it'd be called Ring IQ. She seemed like truly a UFC 1-5 fighter who has ability in 1 art but lacks what makes Jon Jones, GSP, BJ Penn, McGregor etc etc unique and special.
Pretty much what changed the UFC from the Gracie era to the GSP, Jon Jones, McGregor etc etc era.
So enough rambling. How good or skilled is Ronda really? Was/is she just the precursor to Women's MMA, much like the Royce, Renzo etc to Male MMA? Or do y'all think she just got bested like any other mma fight? Like GSP to Hughes and Serra?
How good was or is Ronda really?
I said after the Correia fight, that someone like Holm would beat Ronda when she gets more mma experience. Now, the experience thing apparently wasn't a factor at all but the skill set that Holm has was more than enough to handle Ronda.
All someone had to do was be patient and not play rock em sock'em robots with Ronda and they'd likely beat her. That is what I said. That is what Holly did.
After that fight though, to be completely honest. Ronda looked like the old Rich Franklin. The one who dominated 185 was a rockstar and then here comes some Brazilian dude from no where who put Leben to sleep with 3 punches and history is written.
Not to say Holm is the female version of Anderson Silva but Ronda, how good was she really? Is she just Rich Franklin who was just a big fish in a small talent pool? Or is she just someone like Carlos Condit or Daniel Cormier who got beat by the top dog but still clearly has the ability of a champion?
She fought a lot of mediocre women, to no fault of her own, the women in mma and ufc altogether aren't very refined yet. In the UFC alone, there's only 3 legit fighters who have legitimate fighting backgrounds. Two of them being Holm and Ronda, the third being Joanna. (Judo, Boxing, Muay Thai respectively. All high standard in their respective sport/art)
With the next best UFC woman being Meisha Tate or Cat Zingano and they aren't anywhere near the skill level of the aforementioned 3. Because they just dabbled with some cardio kickboxing/ wrestling and thought "Oh I can do this." Pretty much like the rest of the women in mma currently.
Ronda in that fight, honestly looked like a brawling Judoka. She has strength/power, okay. She is highly skilled in judo, okay. But she lacks intellect in the standup, like if this was boxing, it'd be called Ring IQ. She seemed like truly a UFC 1-5 fighter who has ability in 1 art but lacks what makes Jon Jones, GSP, BJ Penn, McGregor etc etc unique and special.
Pretty much what changed the UFC from the Gracie era to the GSP, Jon Jones, McGregor etc etc era.
So enough rambling. How good or skilled is Ronda really? Was/is she just the precursor to Women's MMA, much like the Royce, Renzo etc to Male MMA? Or do y'all think she just got bested like any other mma fight? Like GSP to Hughes and Serra?
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