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Holy Crap...I have never seen such novice striking from a professional fighter EVER.
I have trained boxing and muay thai for quite some years, and from experience I understand that striking let alone boxing is not something you pick up right away..If ever. Most of you that have trained remembers your first sparring session...Getting beat up, overwhelmed etc etc.
It took many rounds of hard sparring for me to develop distance, timing, and head movement. Not because it looked fancy, but out of total necessity.
Rhonda, displayed none of this. And it is not because she has a terribly shitty coach, even if she trained with Freddie Roach for years, her striking would still look the same due to her not surpassing that mental barrier of getting hit. You can look good on the pads, but as Bruce Lee said...Boards dont hit back.
Rhonda never got past this beginning phase of learning how to get hit. As evidence shows, once she gets hit, she goes into panic mode and freezes.
Its just so sad to see a professional fighter have such terrible striking. I can't even say her performance was amateurish because amateurs look better than that. Not even Maia who rarely uses striking has that kind of embarrassing striking Rhonda displays.
R.I.P. RRR
I have trained boxing and muay thai for quite some years, and from experience I understand that striking let alone boxing is not something you pick up right away..If ever. Most of you that have trained remembers your first sparring session...Getting beat up, overwhelmed etc etc.
It took many rounds of hard sparring for me to develop distance, timing, and head movement. Not because it looked fancy, but out of total necessity.
Rhonda, displayed none of this. And it is not because she has a terribly shitty coach, even if she trained with Freddie Roach for years, her striking would still look the same due to her not surpassing that mental barrier of getting hit. You can look good on the pads, but as Bruce Lee said...Boards dont hit back.
Rhonda never got past this beginning phase of learning how to get hit. As evidence shows, once she gets hit, she goes into panic mode and freezes.
Its just so sad to see a professional fighter have such terrible striking. I can't even say her performance was amateurish because amateurs look better than that. Not even Maia who rarely uses striking has that kind of embarrassing striking Rhonda displays.
R.I.P. RRR
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