Better armbar, Fedor or Ronda?

Apples and eggplants. I don't know all of them off the top of my head but I think Fedor got all of his from the bottom and Ronda gets hers from mount. Has Ronda even been on the bottom in a fight and has Fedor ever mounted anyone? Fedor said himself that he doesn't have the flexibility to get triangles so the armbar is the only thing the guy on top had to look out for and he still got them on good fighters. Everyone was only looking for armbars with Ronda too and she still got them. I'll lean towards Fedor since the bottom is more of a pressure situation.

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Well ...

I actually only care about the armbars that one of these two have finished fights with.
 
Ronda Rousey is using a very simple Gokor Chivechiyan and Gene Lebell setup for an armbar. Look at any technique demonstration from either those two its brilliant

Fedor's setups come from a little more unique angles and he has a lot more power in the technique.
 
Yes like Ronda if Ronda was 6'4 and an Olympic SILVER Medalist in the more competitive men's division.

Yeah just like frigging Ronda Rousey


And that was "all" I though Ogawa was, but he was also a world champion and shares the record for most medals won at the World Judo Championships. That armbar looked so easy...


Fedor. But imo one of the best armbars is still Hughes-GSP ,just amazing.

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Their three fights all had great finishes, two of them real quality armbars. GSP's was nice too.

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Fedor was much smoother. He was fast and graceful. Rousey is more about brute force.

I know submissions aren't strength but Rousey can generally ragdoll anyone in the division, and put them in bad positions. Fedor was dealing with guys stronger than him. Rousey has to be the strongest and most explosive woman in the division. Most explosive without a doubt. Fedor didn't have those gifts.

Rousey's are more effective, but she had more tools and was fighting different people.
 
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Nuff said.
Ronda did it

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and lol you Fedor nut huggers act like such sensitive bitches sometimes. Fedor isn't in the sport anymore so stop getting so butthurt when someone says Rousey has the best armbars in the sport
 
Fedor would armbar Tate, Carmouche and Kaufman
but Ronda would not armbar HMC, Lindland or Coleman
so Fedor
 
Rhonda's armbar looked sloppy as fuck in the second Tate fight. I still can't believe Meisha tapped while her head and shoulders were out.

Basically R3's technique is so good it didn't matter.

She made adjustments on the fly (like crossing ankles) and got the tap anyway.
 
What? Ronda's competition has been awful.

One fought against the best fighters in the world and defended the belt multiple times. The other fought tailor made fighters, sometimes more than once, and armbarred inferior competition
 
Well Ronda is way more enjoyable to watch just because... well i dont hate looking at her but I think opponent wise Fedor does take the cake. Especially how he took out hong man choi
 
From a pure armbar standpoint, I think Rowdy's is better. Maybe it's because so much attention is thrown it's way in comparison to her other facets of skill, it just seems to stand out a little more than Fedor's.

But, the speed and absolute blinding quickness that The Great One presented, specifically in the Ogawa, Choi, and Schall fights are worth their own weight in merit and deserve to be up there when mentioning the best armbars in the sport.
 
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