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It is like people don't understand when fighters are willing to take shots to land their own. Chuck Liddell made a career out of it. Bethe doesn't lay a glove on Ronda if Ronda decided to fight her conservatively.
Ronda certainly has defensive holes but if you think you saw them when she bull-rushed Bethe and KOed her in 16 seconds you are mistaken. She simply chose not to care about any openings knowing it would be a matter of seconds before she walked through anything Bethe had. If Bethe had one-punch KO power there is no way Ronda does the same thing.
It's hopeless to even discuss this dynamic on Sherdog.
Gil's striking looked 'sloppy and amateurish' in the last round against Diego for all of the same reasons... the only difference being that when he let the fight devolve into a slugfest, he almost got KO'd, whereas Ronda finished in short order.
But you won't hear half of sherdog point to that round as proof that Gil has crappy striking technique.