You sound gotten to.
Um, obviously I meant to say she has a mental problem now, after the fight. In the Holm fight she was just unprepared and full of hubris.
Lol, did you even try to understand what I wrote?
It is my understanding that it is easier to adopt a 'don't rush in with your chin high like an idiot' mentality for Ronda than it is for Hollie to reach the necessary near 100% proficiency at TD defense against a take down artist of Ronda's calibre.
Yes, I have seen Ronda fail to take Holly down and I have seen Miesha succeed at the task.
However, Ronda was shot and broken at this point, her jaw possibly cracked earlier in the fight.
So bottom line: Ronda can learn not to bullrush and play it safe, but Holly cannot become an expert grappler in the same time frame. Not likely for a 34 year old woman.
No, it is just a different tactic for Ronda, nothing 'physcial'. Probably could have been fixed 15 minutes before the fight against Hollie.
And I did think that Hollie had excellent take down defense but then I saw her fight against Miesha.
Not gotten too, just frank and candid. Not trying to be insulting, if it seems that way I apologize.
These things you're saying are, again, just one of many possibilities. I really think you tend to interpret a lot of things in a very specific way that ends up tipping logical scales in whatever you personally favor. There are numerous different ways to look at your key points.
Your comment about not rushing in like an idiot is sound, but it doesn't address the basic problem that Ronda is so easily exploited. It's not a matter of her keeping her chin up so much as it is a problem of her being relatively easy to anger and manipulate. Her personality is that of an excessively immature person, and it really worked against her in this particular fight. She may be able to pick up a few tips that will make her dot a few I's and cross a few T's, but that overriding factor is still in play. I know this is something you mentioned earlier, but this is something that is wired directly into who she is, and I don't think it's going away anytime soon, even with the generous slice of humble pie she got stuffed down her throat.
Another thing is that Holly does not need to learn to be an expert grappler in order to comprehensively and effectively thwart Ronda's takedowns. Ronda has a very predictable strategy because it's the same one she always uses. Get in, clinch, go for Arm-bar. You can easily pick up basic moves to foil the 1-2 strategies that Ronda frequently employs. In short, she wouldn't need to learn to be an expert grappler or any kind of grappler.
Which leads me to the biggest thing of all- Ronda's camp and coaches are awful. Unless she changes that, she's not going to be bringing many new things to the table.
None of these musings are unreasonable or out of the realm of possibility, they are every bit as valid as the ones you've suggested. As an added addendum, I would have to say I would only give you minor credit on the comment about Miesha's ability to take down Holly. Miesha had 9 attempts, was successful in only two.
It's common to, whenever someone has lost a fight, scrutinize and ostracize that person. Ronda, Holly, Silva, anyone. It's typically a knee-jerk reaction to the obscene amount of praise someone has previously received for besting their predecessor, but it's equally erroneous and unfounded.
