Which top ranked woman UFC BW can take a clean Cyborg punch: Tate, Holm, Rousey?

[Combat Wombatt]

Meisha, Rousey, Holly, (don't worry about Nunes, Cat, and the lower ranked fighters); which one of these women can take a clean Cyborg punch/kick and not be hurt bad? I'd say none. What's worse for these fighters is that Cyborg is a fast starter and has solid combos with very good accuracy. She's not a fighter who only has an overhand right. Her knees, punches, kicks, and elbows are all enough to put rock and hurt someone setting them up for the finish. She doesn't have 1 punch KO power (very few women fighters do), but her strikes are powerful enough to nearly knock her opponent unconscious and the GnP TKO is not far away.


Holm: Better more technical striking but with less power, however, she has been rocked in fights,KO'd in the past, and was rocked by the boxing god that is Ronda. If Ronda can tag and hurt her, Cyborg can tag and finish her. Holm's best bet is to avoid the initial onlslaught and take Cyborg into the later rounds where she can hopefully wear her down, tire her out, and pick her apart with her superior albeit lighter striking.


Rousey: Rousey better get it to the ground immediately. Her mediocre to poor striking would be more exposed by Cyborg than Holm because the first volley that Cyborg sends off might be the only one that matters as Rousey may be finished by it. Cyborg has more power than Holm and if she hits Rousey clean, that maybe all she wrote.


Meisha: similar to Ronda, Meisha would want to get the fight to the ground ASAP against Cyborg, no easy task when Cyborg will do her best to stay upright. I'd say they'd exchange and eventually Cyborg would tap Meisha's chin, hurt her, and put her away.



So, you have 3 women that can't take a clean Cyborg punch without most likely being hurt enough to be finished and against a woman who appears to have a better chin than all of them. She also hasn't taken a ton of damage in her career so her chin is still good. George Lockart also said that he could get Cyborg down to BW 135lbs. with time.


Meisha is tough and has a good chin, I'd say she may have the best shot with her durability and wrestling but she has shown some shitty TD attempts in the past and was on her way to losing to Holm; I'd see Tate taking it to the 2nd or 3rd round before she gets hit and put down and finished. Rousey would most likely be finished in the 1st round as she wouldn't be able to get Cyborg down and would quickly be dispatched. Holm most likely has the best chance but she has been KO'd in the past and has been rocked by Ronda, I'd say Holm would be finished by the 3rd round also. Cyborg is accurate and won't go rushing into punches like Rouse did. Holm is a counter-striker but if Cyborg lands one of her combos on her that could be the beginning of the end.

 

[Prime Ang]

TLDR, its too late TS, go to bed

 

[DLX]

Probably Tate. She's hard to put away and she has 0 quit in her.

Holm actually got wobbled by one of Rondas punches so I suspect a clean shot from Cyborg will put her out.

Ronda has a decent chin but her striking defence is bad and if she can't get Cyborg to the ground, she won't last past the first rd I suspect.

 

[Drake]

None of the above.

 

[Tormund]

None, but Holm has the better chance of avoiding the cleanest punches by rolling punches and staying on the outside using footwork and lateral movement which Tate and Rousey don't have, also Holm has only ever been KO'd in boxing and that fight should have been stopped at least 1 minute before it was, Tate and Rousey have both been TKO'd in the UFC, Ronda made Holm do the dance but she was fine 2 seconds later

 

[Sgt Smith]

Possibly none, but let's not forget Cris has not cold KO'd a lot of women. She hits hard, but normally it's the way she swarms and the on point accumulation that gets her a TKO. I wouldn't put it past to her to rock most any woman out of the BW division, maybe even put their lights out. But she has fought women their size and not of their skill level that have weathered the storm for a while. But it has been a while since any of her opponents have gone very long with her. And the last to do so was Marloes, who I consider a top tier fighter.

 

[Gullit]

Again another thread where people fighting at 135 is imagined to fight a 145 cyborg.
This will never happen, if you want this discussion to have a meaning ask yourself this question:

Will cyborg retain her ko power if dropping at 135 (which seems to be accepted it has to be via losing muscle mass)? Will she still be able to do to 135ers what she does to 145ers?

My answer is no, she wont be so overwhelming, but yes she will still be very dangerous, yet much more exposed to others attacks.

 

[Combat Wombatt]

Again another thread where people fighting at 135 is imagined to fight a 145 cyborg.
This will never happen, if you want this discussion to have a meaning ask yourself this question:

Will cyborg retain her ko power if dropping at 135 (which seems to be accepted it has to be via losing muscle mass)? Will she still be able to do to 135ers what she does to 145ers?

My answer is no, she wont be so overwhelming, but yes she will still be very dangerous, yet much more exposed to others attacks.

She kept her power at 139lbs. against Leslie Smith recently. I think 4lbs less and she'll still retain her power.

 

[Kyler Ruxin]

Holm I think is the only one that has any chance at all against her, via technique. None of them can take her punches. And I think she buries Holm anyways.

 

[Captain Herb]

A lot of the girls she drops are moving toward her or planted to throw at her. Holm would probably be moving backwards, circling out most of the time. But if the question is which one could take a punch the best like if they lined up and Cyborg cracked them each once, I'd say Ronda would be the most durable.

 

[Gullit]

She kept her power at 139lbs. against Leslie Smith recently. I think 4lbs less and she'll still retain her power.

No, those 4 pounds have to be muscle mass. And please, Leslie Smith is nowhere near a decent example.
See that girl Ibragimugova, she ate some serious punches and a couple of vicious kicks, yet she managed to do 2 single legs, before the Ko, at 145.
A 135lb Cyborg won't do any better than that.

 

[Soggy Grandma]

TLDR, but I think Tate has the best chin out of those 3 mentioned.

 

[Combat Wombatt]

No, those 4 pounds have to be muscle mass. And please, Leslie Smith is nowhere near a decent example.
See that girl Ibragimugova, she ate some serious punches and a couple of vicious kicks, yet she managed to do 2 single legs, before the Ko, at 145.
A 135lb Cyborg won't do any better than that.

And who out of Holm, Rousey, or Tate has a chin as good as Ibragimugova?



I think Tate has the best chin but she'd eventually get beat down too.

 

[shanegotu11]

I'd say holms

 

[Gullit]

And who out of Holm, Rousey, or Tate has a chin as good as Ibragimugova?



I think Tate has the best chin but she'd eventually get beat down too.

I think Tate has the best chin amongst those 3, yet if cyborg stays in her larger version, there's no chin around that can last

 

[JimtheJake]

None of them, even if they were combined into some horrible 6 armed n legged 3 headed monstrosity.

I dunno, all of them could probably take a clean shot and not be KO'd but I'm sure all of them would be rocked and the follow up barrage of strikes would TKO them. Maybe Ronda could catch a wild arm and finish that shit quick but I wouldn't like her chances if she was rocked and under fire.

 

[snugglecakes]

nobody st bw or fw can take a clean shot from her

 

[Concrete Whale]

Short answer: None of the above. Long answer: Holly would have the best chance of slipping, rolling and staying safe until she recovered, but Tate is probably the toughest and grittiest of the three. Rousey will never fight Cyborg, but if she did she would just keep walking into more punches and get finished.

 

[martijn]

The iron lady

 

[Baptizia]

Yup, that Dutchess girl can take it. Also Tate, Holm and Rousey's shadow.