Ronda Rousey: The elephant in the room (IV ban)

She's looked like crap since the IV ban has been put in place. She isn't nearly as strong as she was before the ban. Coincidence? I think not. She was clearly gaining an advantage by cutting a ton of weight. And yet she was terrified of Cyborg...

 

Reaching bro.

Ronda was on weight like a day or before weigh-ins.

 

Yeah because you have to be now.

 

Maybe. Ronda always did enjoy being a little bigger and stronger than her opponents before she faced Holly. I just think her strategy of bulldozing her way into her opponent's clinch just isn't going to work anymore against fighters who know how to strike.

 

I think she just faced competent strikers that weren't painstakingly useless in the clinch

 

Usada

 

Ronda won by beating those women before they ever stepped in the cage

 

Are we blaming Mike Dolce here? If so, I am so game.

 

Strikers. It's the fact she's actually fighting strikers that can KO her instead of wrestlers that play right into her true strength.

 

Sure.

She looked a weightclass larger than Bethe and McMann. When she is bigger than her opponents, should could simply bully them until the ref stopped it.

Her last two fights have seen her against fighters her own size (or bigger) when in the cage.

If she can't physically bully an opponent, she loses a major advantage.

 

Dude the fight lasted 48 seconds and she was supposedly already on weight all week.

 

USADA isn't to blame for her shit striking and even worse defense. She always got tagged rushing into the clinch, she finally ran into chicks as strong and big as her who knows how to strike way better than here, and most importantly aren't scared of her.

 

or smart enough to avoid the clinch.

 

Hey, I'm not the one that called her an elephant in a room.

 

There's that too. I'm not claiming she's not overrated. I just think USADA and the IV ban were a factor as well.

 

IV ban?????????? why not blame global warming???????????? If weight was a problem she wouldn't have put on as much muscle.

 

Come on now lets not blame dolce. He did his job. She made weight. Thats his only concern. The rest is 60% ronda 40% edmunds fault

 

This thread is about IV bans tho. Mike Dolce has been vocal in the past about it. BJ Penn once claimed Mike Dolce tried to give him an IV before the fight and was on 4 different diuretics.