Media Holly Holms wrestles World Champion wrestler

[ShaggyDoyle]

Her opponent, Alejandra Rivera, has 4 medals at the Pan American Championships and represented Mexico twice at the World Senior Championships.

 

[Mr.Maelstrom]

Holly doesn't give a fiddler's fuck about medals

Ask Ronda lol

 

[chinarice]

44 year old boxer vs 25 year old wrestler, in wrestling..... and the 44 year old boxer almost won... lol

 

[Prince Nephilim]

She looked good. Put up a solid performance.

 

[JustBleed69]

Holly is a great athlete and looks strong as fuck

 

[Kung Fu Kowboy]

Why is she not doing BKFC

 

[Mammothman]

44 year old boxer vs 25 year old wrestler, in wrestling..... and the 44 year old boxer almost won... lol

WMMA lol

 

[Kal-El]

Wrestling is dead

 

[Mr.Maelstrom]

WMMA lol

US wrestling medals are no longer the universal acknowledgements of the proverbial "proof that's in the pudding"
Like they used to be.

Wrestlers accolades have given us cross over fighters whose actual skill level or talents can range anywhere from DC to Bo. From Hendo to Cejudo.
It suggests that you were the shit, at one point, in pure wrestling, on that specific occasion when you won big on the night.

All it proves about your long term potential in MMA is that you've shown to be capable of committing to getting to the elite level of a hard sport before, and maybe can do it again.

Frank Shamrock tapped out gold medalist wrestler Kevin Jackson in the 90s in 16 seconds.

This was the fastest submission win in a UFC title fight for nearly 20 years. You know who broke his record, and still holds it til this day?

Spoiler

Ronda, with a 14 second sub win over a cartwheeling Cat Zingano. Conor still has the record for fastest KO in a title fight. I know that the thought of those 2 holding those records might irk a lot of the hardcore fans lol

 

[HNIC215]

 

[VinceArch]

Michelle would get it.

 

[Dionysian]

44 year old boxer vs 25 year old wrestler, in wrestling..... and the 44 year old boxer almost won... lol

Did you watch the post-match interviews? It is even WORSE than what you said... Holly hadn't trained wrestling seven months prior and was competing on less than 48 hours notice...

 

[Pierce 34]

Long past expiration date

 

[Mr.Maelstrom]

Did you watch the post-match interviews? It is even WORSE than what you said... Holly hadn't trained wrestling seven months prior and was competing on less than 48 hours notice...

She's a natural fit to play spoiler is my guess?

She never really lived up to what the Ronda knockout seemed to suggest about the heights her skill level would likely take her to, it may be MMA's Buster Douglas moment looking back.

But she's still a former 2 sport world champion that stays fit year round.
To be capable of a great showing on 48hrs notice in a sport you never tried at 44 years old...

You'd audibly laugh in the theater if they put something that improbable in a movie lol


Good on her, always seemed like an all around good person in a sport full of low level boxercise mo

 

[STAY GOLD]

It was an impressive performance from Holly specially considering she took the match on short notice.

 

[nostradumbass]

Women playing sports is just adorable.

 

[HNIC215]

Long past expiration date

 

[Dionysian]

You'd audibly laugh in the theater if they put something that improbable in a movie lol

For real. It is ludicrous enough that if I told you to intentionally try to discredit women's sport and you told this exact story I'd say you had to be lying and were being hyperbolic. Too silly to even make up.

 

[Yabadabaev]

Ish Ish baby

 

[Söze Aldo]

It's crazy how they didn't cast Michelle as Chun-Li in the new Street Fighter movie?