Cat Zingano had wins over Amanda Nunes and Miesha Tate and would have been on her way to being champion if it wasnt for Ronda. Rousey beat her in 14 seconds.
Rousey is a very limited fighter, but if you try to beat her using offensive grappling you're going down.
This is bullshit revisionist history if u put it like that
Cat got beat up by Miesha, and yes a very impressive turnaround to come back in the final round
Then Cat got absolutely smashed by Nunes in the 1st round... how the ref didn't stop it is beyond me. Nunes gassed herself out smashing Cat from full mount for 4 minutes... then Cat came back to win.
Lots of love and respect for Cat's heart, but after that Nunes fight Cat was never the same again. She said that her pituitary gland was swollen from the beating she took, and couldn't drive her son around for months. Also said she swelled up all over big time, due to the hormonal imbalance she got from being beat up that badly by Nunes. She said specifically that she felt very scared, because she was a single parent at that point and really couldn't do much for her son cause she was in that bad a shape.
So, this bullshit that Cat was on the way to being champion before Ronda stopped her, is bullshit.
Cat was in all kinds of hell after fighting Amanda Nunes, and you know what- perhaps looked for a quick way out in the Ronda fight as to take as little punishment as possible... I'm not saying that that is the case, but I wouldn't blame her if it was since getting beat up to the point of having a swollen brain is fucking scary... especially more so when you're a single parent.