Ronda's Real Competition: Double Standard in MMA

[LampShade94]

She fought cans. Just accept it.

 

[Breakitdown]

She's facing the weakest competition in sports history. Yes, literally sports history. Cup stacking champions have to face challengers with more experience.

UFC title contender beth corriea has been fighting for 3 years. She picked up this "sport" because she wasn't getting accounting jobs and wanted to stay in good shape, lol.

Calling these people "professionals" is laughable in every sense of the word.

 

[dickbutkis]

wait!!! the real important question is....which one of Ronda's opponents is the former stripper?? pics plz

 

[JKS]

Only morons say Ronda is fighting soccer moms, strippers and accountants, this is something that a boxing promoter recently said. Ronda is fighting girls that have been fighting pro for 5-8 years. BTW, Carmouche was in the marines for years.

And I dont accept the can argument either, Ronda has 12 fights and most of her opponents have more then her. She just happens to beat them and is better plain and simple.

 

[Heelhook71]

You're too emotionally invested in this. I mean I know you're her coach, and hope one day you'll miraculously break out of the friend zone Edmond, but you shouldn't let what people say on sherdog get to you so much.

With that said Bethe was the worst fighter to fight for a belt. It was actually a little embarrassing to talk about the fight to non fans. It meant explaining that a title contender for a high profile fight had:
-No martial arts background.
-No sports background.
-No general fitness background, or record of any kind of athletic achievement.

Then I had to explain that she worked in a office full time, and took up the sport 3 years ago to get fit but somehow due to the lack of competition was fighting on PPV for a belt. It's pretty ridiculous when you say that all out loud.

 

[Ragnarocker]

Stopped reading there after noticing your join date. "All time high" says the guy who has been a part of Sherdog for a whopping few months.

Don't judge that troll by his join date, guaranteed that kid is on his 10th or 11th account and keeps getting banned. He even paid for the plat membership to keep from getting banned too quickly. He doesn't really care about Ronda, he just knows she's a hot button issue so defending her will be a great way to troll people.

 

[TobikanJudan94]

Typical hate. And I mean you,TS. You are a hater of Ronda critics. A hater is not to be taken seriously,a critic should. Women's BW division is shallow. And denying that is just beyond this world. Comparing some of the best striking exchanges of wmma to some very bad striking exchange in mma is ridicolous. Compare the best to the best. Comparing Ronda's last opponents to Chael's gifted shot is laughable. Ok,he faced a MW absolutely not deserving a TS...where is Ronda's Shogun? Machida? Evans? Cormier? Gustafsson?.

The part where you say "if they are soccer moms then GSP is a garbage man" is trollish. If course everybody had a job before becoming a pro fighter. Especially in a sport with such low payouts like MMA. I never said Ronda is beating soccer moms but the fact that a lot of wmma fighters took on pro fighting very late is a fact.

 

[Shaddows]

 

[DeathByBeer]

Everyone had jobs before getting into MMA, everyone.

Using that to compare GSP, who probably once he got into MMA trained relentlessly for hours and hours a day in multiple facets of the sport for years before he became big, to a girl who trained for a few hours a week for 6 months before fighting a few other girls of the same ilk, is laughable.

 

[ForbiddenSun]

TS is hereby held responsible for all the Sherdoggers who got hospitalized after reading the OP, due to facts overload.

 

[accolyte1022]

Don't judge that troll by his join date, guaranteed that kid is on his 10th or 11th account and keeps getting banned. He even paid for the plat membership to keep from getting banned too quickly. He doesn't really care about Ronda, he just knows she's a hot button issue so defending her will be a great way to troll people.

Personal experience?:icon_chee

 

[JKS]

She's facing the weakest competition in sports history. Yes, literally sports history. Cup stacking champions have to face challengers with more experience.

UFC title contender beth corriea has been fighting for 3 years. She picked up this "sport" because she wasn't getting accounting jobs and wanted to stay in good shape, lol.

Calling these people "professionals" is laughable in every sense of the word.

So you pick on the one fighter that stands out as inexperienced. What about Davis who's got over 20 pro fights and has been fightig 8+ years, a BJJ black belt. What about Tate who Ronda beat twice that also has 20+ fights and fought 8 years, what about Kaufman who has 15 fights and been fighting for over 5 years, what about Kaufman who has 20+ fights and been doing mma for nearly 10 years?

Even fighters like Zingano and McMann who have around 10 fights still are formidable opponents. Cat beat everyone ranked she fought by finish including Tate and McMann has a very strong background in wrestling.

You pick the one opponent that had 3 years of experience to make your point, what about the rest??

 

[Ragnarocker]

Personal experience?:icon_chee

I'm not a plat member and I don't support Ronda :icon_chee

 

[Montecristo]

All i read was "You don

 

[chubbman]

All that white knighting...

You do know Rhonda will never sleep with you

 

[misTerK1]

 

[Pancake Sprawl]

Hong Man Choi is not a can.

 

[ForbiddenSun]

Another clapping gif for the thread.

 

[maxfedor]

One can tell TS not a fedor fan by mentioning cans. But. Touts mcman's Olympic record. But does mention fedor beating 2 Olympic gold medalist judokas, a one Olympic Greco silver medalist all in less then 10 mins combined.armbaring a gold medalist judoka in less then a minute.then beating every single top HW in his era. Fact of the matter is wmma is like woman's hockey, you honestly believe American and Canadian woman are so athletically superior to all other nations, that is why their record is so great.

 

[Breakitdown]

You pick the one opponent that had 3 years of experience to make your point, what about the rest??

The rest are just as awful to be honest. For some (as you claim) to have 8+ years of experience and display such little technical ability is, to be frank, startling.

We are talking about the least skilled "pro athletes" to ever comprise a "pro sport league". It's embarrassing to watch, and for you to get any enjoyment out of it really exposes how low your standards are.

Seriously, for them to be that technically deficient (think Correia-Rousey, zingano-rousey) is absolutely shocking. It highlights the fact that this "sport" is not only attracting the literal bottom of the barrel in terms of athleticism but also in terms of mental capabilities.