Tune up fights. Would have Ronda fared better with one after Holm loss?

[Neitzsche]

In the case with an emotionally privy Ronda, after her loss to Holm, she should have fought a tune up against Jessica Eye. Easy win, built confidence, boom then give her to Nunes. Fighters are human after all and wrestle with confidence just like the rest of us. I feel there also used to be more intrigue to see someone climb back up than receiving title shots willy nillly.

I think this will be the case with Cody/TJ. Cody should not being going for an immediate rematch with the champion after such a brutal loss.

Of course there will be extenuating circumstances however, the UFC should bring back the tune up fight, more often than not.

 

[blaseblah]

It wouldn't have mattered, she was with a joke of a coach who didn't teach her the skills she should've been learning.

 

[joeyjoejoe]

I’m always in favour of the back of the line treatment after a champion loses their title, I like nothing more then to see if a fighters still has what it takes to climb the ranks again and collect them scalps. I like that idea better than the instant rematches or title shots off of 1 win because the UFC can’t put together a decent main event lol.

 

[BRaVo cHoKe]

Absolutely. If they had feed her a grappler like Pena after the Holm lost she would have had a longer MMA career, but still would have to deal with the circumstance of the unfavorable stylistic match up against strikers.

 

[LouisBolanos]

You'd think that's the case, but that's because you're not really taking Ronda's mentality into account.

Taking a tune up fight would be accepting she wasn't good enough to rematch Holm immediately. Ronda would never ever accept that. She's still crying about that loss 2 years later. For other athletes it would be confidence boosting, but Ronda has a very warped view of the world, for her a tune up fight would be admitting she isn't ready, and in her warped world view that's as bad as a loss.

 

[WinZip]

After the Holm fight, who was Ronda going to face? Serious question. Once people saw how bad her striking really is, and especially once Ronda lost her confidence, I don't see many fights going well for her. Even a third Tate fight wouldn't have gone well I think.

 

[The Witcher]

Peoples hate of ronda cloud their judgement. Yes, holly and nunes are better. But she still wreck shop with the rest of em. She beat meisha twice, the girl that finished holly. It was just her persona that was insufferable, but in terms of talent and actual performances she is an all time womens great. Come at me

 

[Neitzsche]

After the Holm fight, who was Ronda going to face? Serious question. Once people saw how bad her striking really is, and especially once Ronda lost her confidence, I don't see many fights going well for her. Even a third Tate fight wouldn't have gone well I think.

Jessica Eye. Top ten at the time. Her striking is just as bad, and is just as much of a head case.

Ronda would never ever accept that. She's still crying about that loss 2 years later.

I see your point, but I think if it was customary by the org itself, she wouldn't have any expectations of a rematch.

 

[JustBleed69]

In the case with an emotionally privy Ronda, after her loss to Holm, she should have fought a tune up against Jessica Eye. Easy win, built confidence, boom then give her to Nunes. Fighters are human after all and wrestle with confidence just like the rest of us. I feel there also used to be more intrigue to see someone climb back up than receiving title shots willy nillly.

I think this will be the case with Cody/TJ. Cody should not being going for an immediate rematch with the champion after such a brutal loss.

Of course there will be extenuating circumstances however, the UFC should bring back the tune up fight, more often than not.

Would Ronda Have*

 

[Neitzsche]

Would Ronda Have*

Buzz off grammar twerp. If you're going to critique me do it properly.

Would Ronda have*

You see, the word have isn't a proper noun and thus shouldn't be capitalized.

 

[WinZip]

Jessica Eye. Top ten at the time. Her striking is just as bad, and is just as much of a head case.

I see your point, but I think if it was customary by the org itself, she wouldn't have any expectations of a rematch.

Okay Eye may have been competitive. But I doubt that she'd ever accept it. Her ego was still inflated after her loss to Holm, and "customary" or not, Ronda wouldn't return for anything short of a title shot. There was no incentive; she's got money already and clearly has no desire to fight if she can't just armbar everyone in the 1st round. Even if she rounded out her game and developed striking that wasn't atrocious, you think Ronda has the mindset of wanting to keep fighting, even if she takes a loss or two? Hell no. She can't handle losing, especially if it's not even a championship fight.

 

[Alphaboy]

Perhaps that would help her confidence and it would look better, but it honestly wouldn't help her.

I think the reason Ronda got demolished is because she was always fighting girls with poor fighting intelligence. Girls who did not challenge her, and just clumsily ran into her armbar over, and over, and over, again.

Fighters like Eye are reasons RR never felt the need to develop stand up skills. Therefore, when she ran into a fighter that knew what she was doing, she didn't know what the hell to do!

 

[smiles mma]

After Holm flight, rematch mcmann. Winnable fight and the first fight was cut early

 

[ortizgnp]

Honda still beats the majority of the division with her grappling alone. People who think otherwise are delusional.

 

[Adjutant]

She was the Champion, no tune up fights for a champ

Unfortunately, Nunes was her next contest. Honestly, it’s probably good she had that fight. It exposed her to the level of competition that existed in the division

 

[King of Fists]

Ronda was a victim of her own success, they can't just put her against some random scrub AND use her as a featued headliner.

 

[TheComputerGuy]

Ronda lost, because she thought she was becoming a movie star. She was talking about retirement before she lost.

 

[csroster]

I don't think it would have mattered. Either Ronda would have gotten tagged in the warm-up fight and started having shell shock or it would have happened in the next fight. After the Holm loss I don't think Ronda can take another punch inside the cage without panicking.

 

[JustBleed69]

Buzz off grammar twerp. If you're going to critique me do it properly.

Would Ronda have*

You see, the word have isn't a proper noun and thus shouldn't be capitalized.

Your flaw is much greater than my own.

Wasn't trying to be a dick, just helping you make your thread titles a little bit more coherent.
Took me a couple of reads to figure out what the question was.

 

[kazam]

After the Holm fight, who was Ronda going to face? Serious question. Once people saw how bad her striking really is, and especially once Ronda lost her confidence, I don't see many fights going well for her. Even a third Tate fight wouldn't have gone well I think.

Tate has the fight I.Q of a brick she would have grappled with Ronda and lost AGAIN