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I might be wrong.
But I do not think this is impossible or even unlikely.
First of all I'm pretty much neutral on Rousey. I'm a fight fan and I've enjoyed every time I've seen her fight, it's always great especially with a crowd. But her behavior is to me, alarming.
Step back and look at the past year since 193.
Look at how Rhonda has been handling herself in public.
Look at how Rhonda has been hiding herself from the public.
Rhonda has this whole thing set up to the point where the fight is right around the corner, the biggest fight, the most pressure, the most on the line, and she has yet to face the public.
That's not quite true, I'll admit, she did come out during the UFC 205 "face off" and from what I've heard, needed to be consoled like a frail child afterwards.
And now, UFC 207, headlined by Dana's "biggest star", is hours away and we still haven't seen Rhonda. We haven't had a press conference, a real face off, an interview, a TV appearance with the headlines going at it verbally. It's CLEAR that she is at the very least uncomfortable in public, at it doesn't take much imagination to begin to think that she is absolutely terrified of the spotlight now.
She made her money and reputation being in the spotlight.
You don't go from that, to putting this much effort into avoiding it, if you think something good is gonna happen when the curtain goes up. We have a pretty clear picture of a fighter who places a very high value on not being put out there in front of people, and an inevitable, rapidly approaching and extremely high stakes event coming that will put her out in front of people in the most severe and intense manner.
Will she show up? If she does - whatever she has been so desperately hiding from, whatever she's afraid of, will it finally happen? Are we to expect she somehow goes from hiding away on the knife's edge for over a year to totally cool with this spotlight in a matter of hours?
I hope I'm wrong, because I love watching the fights, but I have to be honest, I really don't think she is going to show up.
But I do not think this is impossible or even unlikely.
First of all I'm pretty much neutral on Rousey. I'm a fight fan and I've enjoyed every time I've seen her fight, it's always great especially with a crowd. But her behavior is to me, alarming.
Step back and look at the past year since 193.
Look at how Rhonda has been handling herself in public.
Look at how Rhonda has been hiding herself from the public.
Rhonda has this whole thing set up to the point where the fight is right around the corner, the biggest fight, the most pressure, the most on the line, and she has yet to face the public.
That's not quite true, I'll admit, she did come out during the UFC 205 "face off" and from what I've heard, needed to be consoled like a frail child afterwards.
And now, UFC 207, headlined by Dana's "biggest star", is hours away and we still haven't seen Rhonda. We haven't had a press conference, a real face off, an interview, a TV appearance with the headlines going at it verbally. It's CLEAR that she is at the very least uncomfortable in public, at it doesn't take much imagination to begin to think that she is absolutely terrified of the spotlight now.
She made her money and reputation being in the spotlight.
You don't go from that, to putting this much effort into avoiding it, if you think something good is gonna happen when the curtain goes up. We have a pretty clear picture of a fighter who places a very high value on not being put out there in front of people, and an inevitable, rapidly approaching and extremely high stakes event coming that will put her out in front of people in the most severe and intense manner.
Will she show up? If she does - whatever she has been so desperately hiding from, whatever she's afraid of, will it finally happen? Are we to expect she somehow goes from hiding away on the knife's edge for over a year to totally cool with this spotlight in a matter of hours?
I hope I'm wrong, because I love watching the fights, but I have to be honest, I really don't think she is going to show up.
