Roxanne Modafferi Appreciation Thread

[Gamer2k4]

Wish her the best. She was OK for a fighter but clearly overachieving her athleticism with grit and hard work... nothing but respect for that.

The female Forrest Griffin?

 

[Dr. Rose]

Damn I forgot how much of a mogger she was. Imagine spending all your free time playing Pokemon and still battering elite competition.

Antoniona Shevchenko was never elite in MMA, kb maybe, but never MMA.

 

[laleggenda27]

I will always respect her for dismantling Maycee Barber in spectacular fashion. Truly one of the GOATs of likable WMMA fighters

It was actually quite satisfying watching her beat Maycee lol

Are we conveniently forgetting that Maycee blew out her ACL in the first round?

 

[Dr. Rose]

Only based female to ever fight and honestly i thought she beat nicco montonya

Tara Larosa? And she literally made a guy tap. Not too many WMMA fighters can say that legitimately. Granted it was against an amateur, but still.

 

[Pierce 34]

wood

 

[Pancake Sprawl]

the Happy Warrior is a real one in a sea of bullshitters, respect to living her life her way, fuck what the people say.

 

[MRT]

Are we conveniently forgetting that Maycee blew out her ACL in the first round?

Not at all...it didn't make her losing any less enjoyable from my perspective

 

[Cope123]

Not at all...it didn't make her losing any less enjoyable from my perspective

This. Plus blowing a knee only proves how fragile and un-battle hardened your body is Vs the competition. There's a reason Thai fighters regularly get their knees bashed in by bamboo sticks, it's to get them resistant to injury. Maycee must of skipped that class

 

[Eater of Souls]

Let's face it.
She bored us to hell for like 20 fights.
Didn't learn striking in 25 years, how disrespectful to a sport can you be?

Fucking simps

She is one of the nicest people ever to step into the cage or the ring and is one of the few standard bearers for traditional martial arts. Since I am not, fuck you and everybody that looks like you. I have no idea what kind of miserable piece of shit you have to be to shit on someone like Roxy but I understand your agony and despair having peaked as a Walmart greeter.

 

[Eater of Souls]

This. Plus blowing a knee only proves how fragile and un-battle hardened your body is Vs the competition. There's a reason Thai fighters regularly get their knees bashed in by bamboo sticks, it's to get them resistant to injury. Maycee must of skipped that class

Plus Roxy took the first round anyway. The only reason it went to decision is Roxy was too nice to attack Barber's leg.

 

[SamuraiBro]

On the right or wrong day … would

 

[Blastbeat]

ill go on record and say she has one of the best chins in WMMA. it literally took Sarah Kaufman slamming her on her head to knock her out.
was very happy to see her beat Maycee Barber
also she shouldve beaten Nicco Montano. Nicco didnt deserve that belt.

 

[Romulas]

She is happily married and has a child now by the way

That's awesome! I remember her from the early 2000s being such a nice person compared to the typical MMA crowd.

 

[Pierced7681]

The female Forrest Griffin?

Forrest was insanely athletic, huge for 205, but didn’t have any real martial arts background and it showed. He literally got by on being a great athlete

 

[Killer Kadoogan]

she was cool, was authentic, and rocking that PRIDE shirt made a fan out of me from the get go.

feels good seeing her with a family now. good for her. nothing but nice things to say about her.

 

[Here's Johnny!]

Wish her the best. She was OK for a fighter but clearly overachieving her athleticism with grit and hard work... nothing but respect for that.


Also she strikes me as one of the most authentic people in the MMA / WMMA world. She did ok in UFC but she did it on her terms and owned her own unique and weird personality and THAT I really dig.

So true

 

[xhaydenx]

The Shevchenko Huntress

And she was the Future Destroyer too.

Made Barber go from saying she was going to be the youngest ever champ to just "a champion someday".

 

[David Street]

I really really miss her.


Truly was my nerd hero. She lived in Japan so long to become a superhero... like a manga star, studying Ju Jitsu and learning the language even quicker as she is a book nerd.

 

[sverre054]

Honestly, the UFC should hire her. Beloved WMMA figure, well spoken, fluent in English and Japanese, college educated, lives in Vegas. Give her a job Dana

 

[Dusty Rhodes]