Ronda Rousey

It is interesting because Rousey is starting to become her own character. She knows, or someone is advising her, how to sell herself as a brand. Luckily for her, she can also back it up. Zingano was largely considered the best challenger out there, next to Cyborg who may never stop doping long enough to join the UFC, and Rousey handled her in 14 seconds. She also has yet to back down from any female who wants to fight her.

You can find a videos of her sparring with male MMA fighters all over Youtube, if other female fighters aren't preparing that way it will be a long time before Rowdy loses.

Steve, please stop trying to talk about sports as you don't have a friggen clue! Good grief!!!

#1 All fighters (except heavywieghts and/or super-heavys) weigh in at the high end of their weight class --> most fighters cut between 10 and 25 pounds just to make weight. Almost all fighters weigh in at exactly the "top weight" ----> that's how it works, Steve.

#2 Ronda will never again fight in King of the Cage as that's a very low level MMA organization. Her first MMA fight was in KoC back in 2011. Shortly thereafter she went to Strikeforce and became the champ by submitting Miesha Tate with an armbar. The UFC bought Strikeforce and then folded the good fighters into the UFC.

#3 The UFC does not have a women's 145 pound division. Currently they have a women's 135 pound division, and a newly created women's 125 pound division. The men's 135 pound division has some of the most exciting fighters in the sport --> T.J Dillashaw, Uriah Faber, Renan Barao, Dominick Cruz etc. etc.

Cheers

-don

If you have any doubts, read the late Freddie Blassie's autobiography. He has a whole section devoted to him (the LeBell family once ran a wrestling promotion in Los Angeles Ca.).


Gene LeBell is definitely not someone you mess with.

She's the epitome of, "Do one thing, and do it better than anyone else in the world"

She beat Zingano so quickly, because Zingano made a mistake.

But there is no denying that she is the best in the world....by a lot.

I would love to see her fight Cyborg.

And Seagal is a blowhard, but he is highly skilled, and he does consult with some UFC fighters.

Nice Photos, Thank you for sharing it. You don't want to mess up with Ronda Rousey.

Oh. yeah hah! That thread is still there? I wrongly assumed that it had been deleted. Steven Seagal brought that notorious incident on himself, mistreating people in his employment, on film sets, beating his wife and all sorts of scumbag things, and often boasting that no one could best him. Gene LeBell took the challenge and decisively beat him good, resulting in Steven Seagal literally pooping his pants.

When I was in my early 20s, I had the same attitude. No woman could beat me...because men are stronger than women.

And then, in my Kung Fu class, a short girl, maybe 22 years old, came over from another school, and started training with us.

I had several years of hard training. She was maybe 5' 1"..maybe 110 pounds. And when she blocked my punch, she left a bruise. Her power, when punching... was frightening.

None of the guys wanted to spar with her. And none of us laughed when one declined her offer to fight. I asked her one day what her secret was. She said "8 hours of hard training a day, and no sex".

I took her at her word.

And any man thinking that Ronda Rousey is easy to beat, no matter how big they are...is in for an education. And high level Judo is no joke.

I was just going to post that video
I'm guessing other reporters are filing that under "things not to say to Rhonda".

What I think a lot of people overlook about Ronda is that she won a silver medal in Judo in the Olympics. That is some high level serious ability.

Most fighters do not train any kind of Judo. BJJ has some similarities to Judo, but the throws and takedowns of Judo are so technical and hard to defend. The people she is fighting against have no chance once she gets her hands on them.

It is one of the reasons Fedor was so dominant in his career. He was a multi-time Sambo champion. Sambo shares a lot of similarities to Judo. Fedor's heavy hands did not hurt at all either.

Unless another Olympic level Judo fighter enters into MMA or someone catches Ronda with a lucky punch/kick, I do not see her losing any time in the near future.

Actually, I think most MMA fans know this. I think a large number of fans also know her mom was a judo great as well, and many probably know she was also an armbar expert. Ronda's mom was the first American to win a judo gold at the World Championships when she won gold at the 1984 games in Vienna. In-fact Ronda brought her mom on one of the TUF episodes she was coaching.

I think a couple of the things people may not know about Ronda is at one point during 2010 she was living out of her car in Los Angeles, and she once bailed on her mom and her coaches and "self-trained" for a while.

A few other active judo fighters in MMA are...

Karo Parsiyan
Stun Gun Dong Hyun Kim
Hector Lombard
Satoshi Ishii
Manny Gamburian
Rick Hawn
Judo Jim Wallhead
Shinya Aoki
Zenko Yoshida
Jimy Hettes
Sokoudjou
Kas Nakamura

In many MMA circles, Judo has not been considered to be especially effective in the sport of Mixed Martial Arts --> until Ronda put Judo back on the map.

Is Ronda Rousey the savior judo has been waiting for? | MMAjunkie

I do think Ronda's judo has been dominant, and her throws are the best in the business. I also think her scrambling is top notch and we all know how great she is when she grabs an arm. The only time I have seen her vulnerable so far in the UFC was when someone had her back. And yes, I was a Fedor fan, and he was dominant until he ran into age issues and back to back to back loses against Werdum, Antonio Silva and Dan Henderson.

Does Ronda love Fedor? She sure does, she wants to have 57 babies with him...

Ronda Rousey talks love of Fedor Emelianenko, desire to have ’57 of his babies’ | MMAjunkie

She keeps that pretty private. In the past some have linked her to Middle Easy reporter Michael Mardones and UFC fighter Brendan Schaub, neither of which she still dates. I know her mom calls all of her boyfriends Bob... Bob 1, Bob 2, Bob 3, etc.

Her father committed suicide after breaking his back while suffering from a blood disorder that did not allow him to heal properly.

Cheers

-don