What are you talking about?? Have you ever seen any coach encourage their fighter to move their head and clinch as much as Edmund? It was great coaching!
The Honda who was in Strikeforce probably wouldn't have 50 paparazzi trying to take pictures of her busted up face either.QUOTE]
True. I still feel that she changed as she rose in popularity but she's retiring as a multi millionaire and all the best to her in her future.
Yeah, he is. So is a decent portion of Sherdog.Yeah but that guy is a fucking weak pleb
Why do people white knight for WMMA constantly? Most of the threads on it are just about the women's appearance, in fact. In reality WMMA fights are just generally not very high level.
You just pulled that out of your ass.Her competition was part-time fighters and soccer moms like a lot of WMMA still is, but even worse at that time. Maybe equivalent to a good male fighter skill wise ~15 years ago? Just a rough guesstimate.
She had power though. She understood how to sit into her punches, very few women do it which is why you have a bunch of flurries and mostly decisions.great judoka, highly athletic, pretty poor striking mixed w low level of comp in wmma plus horrible coaching.
mmas a mix, like MIXED martial arts guys
she was very physically strong along with having amazing grappling strength / leverage.Relative to her competition of course. I never really followed her career much. Was she stronger than most of her opposition or was she that much more skilled? Both maybe?
She seemed to flip people like pancakes back in the day
They probably "white knight" wmma because they are fans of martial arts and know wmma is relatively new and basically where Pride was a decade ago but still, martial arts.
Why do people white knight for WMMA constantly? Most of the threads on it are just about the women's appearance, in fact. In reality WMMA fights are just generally not very high level.
Seeing as Pride ended over a decade ago, and WMMA has never and likely will never approach anywhere near the level of peak Pride fights, I don't think so. And these fans talk more about the women fighters looks than the actual fights. That isn't because they are such hardcore fans of martial arts.
Yeah dudes complaining about fighters looks are just losers.
I think wmma has definitely exceeded Pride as far as skill and athleticism
She had power though. She understood how to sit into her punches, very few women do it which is why you have a bunch of flurries and mostly decisions.
If she had a decent striking coach she would have been a savage on the feet.