I don't know anything about fighting but I don't understand people backseat coaching profesionals. Is this better? https://youtu.be/TDA5qox1pws
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Mayweather on Ronda Rousey on the cover of Ring: "The sport is starting to look bad"
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NoblesseOblige
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Yikes.
YIKES. How is that possible?
Say what you want about him, but he's right in this context. When she's on the cover, but successful career boxers are not, something is wrong.
She looks like Ice JJ Fish
LOL
Is that relevant tho? Plenty of people who can kick my/our ass/asses do stupid things and that doesn't make them immune to mockery, much less when it's a celebrity no one in this forum is ever going to see face to face.
Much more, it's totally fair to mock her shitty shadow boxing, because she still is a top MMA fighter, can't expect her to magically be good at box, and that gif is funny,
WWE and movies are next for Ronda. She couldn't care less about boxing.
BadAss2961
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There's also a Cyborg out there waiting for her.
You know what else makes boxing look bad? Domestic violence. But sure, let's throw shade on Rond--
Holy shit. I've never watched any of Ronda's MMA fights but I'm guessing she's not throwing many punches, because that's a textbook illustration of how not to throw a punch. If those landed, she'd break her wrist at least.
Holy shit. I've never watched any of Ronda's MMA fights but I'm guessing she's not throwing many punches, because that's a textbook illustration of how not to throw a punch. If those landed, she'd break her wrist at least.
bengraven
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It's a magazine. They're all desperate for some exposure.
I'm shocked they're not doing a Star Wars themed issue.
She's more about getting them just close enough..
For this.
I'm shocked they're not doing a Star Wars themed issue.
She's more about getting them just close enough..
For this.
BadAss2961
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Phat Michael
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I'm not giving her tips, but I can throw better punches then her and so can any amateur boxer who has boxed for a year. She is terrible at it. At MMA, she's dominant and her grappling is amazing. At boxing, she is fucking terrible.
Edmund is hardly a solid trainer by any means.
Phat Michael
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Yeah she has gotten a lot softer and heavier in recent fights. You can see it in her training sessions and when she wears dresses.
Her core strength however is ridiculous and she can basically throw anyone in her division to the floor and pummel them.
Buu Ronda >>> weight in. I want all the booty.She looks like a model at weigh-ins.
Then like Buu at times when she rehydrates.
perineumlick
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Ronda brags about beating up her ex boyfriend in her book, plus she's dating a known woman beater, but I guess that's okay because she's a woman.
Phat Michael
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I don't care at all about her personal life, but I really don't like her attitude. My favourite fighters are usually the more humble ones that let their fists do the talking.
I think she needs a loss to learn some humility and this would actually make her get a new camp and improve her striking skills.
Latvian Hitman
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Yes. What the sport needs is a nice, long series of mismatches and 12-round snoozefests featuring fighters who "mystify" their opponents by refusing to engage with them.
Rant aside: I agree that RR being on the cover of Ring is silly sauce.
80s Bad Guy
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On the plus side, mayweather would be the king of flag football.
Mix Master
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Your Entertainer
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Ronda is bragging in detail about beating up her ex
perineumlick
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Well, I tell ya, I think she has a good chance of losing this fight. If Holly can keep it standing, and last some rounds, things could get very interesting.
All this erotica....
The last fight aside, she doesn't throw a lot of punches, at least not of the traditional boxing variety; mostly knees, throws, and grappling.
She's been trying to up her striking/boxing -- and she's clearly starting from a low base -- but she's not going to transform her boxing game overnight or take boxing by storm anytime soon. And a lot of this talk is just talk, which is some mixture of ego, marketing, and hype, which shouldn't be new to anyone who follows sports, let alone boxing or MMA, whatsoever.
_illmatic_
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Ronda is such a piece of shit man-beater. I don't know how anyone can support her. Prob won't see any of those posts in the next UFC thread thought
Your Entertainer
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Ronda is such a piece of shit man-beater. I don't know how anyone can support her. Prob won't see any of those posts in the next UFC thread thought
She's also a sandy hook truther and believes in "chem trails". She doesn't at all come across as a particularly well adjusted or sane person.
I'm pretty sure I could kick the asses of 99.9% of all Gaffers and yet GAF still makes fun of me when I do stupid shit.
King Tubby
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Rousey beat up a male MMA fighter for taking nude photos of her without her knowledge or consent. EDIT: Oh, and he was physically preventing her from leaving his apartment. Mayweather is a serial batterer of women, beating some of them in front of their children, for over a decade. But yeah they're the same.
Then again fuck her for the Sandy Hook truther shit.
PastorOfMuppets
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Yeah, I'm a much bigger MMA fan than I am a boxing fan - I do love both sports though.
Ronda unfortunately gives a lot of credence to the idea that MMA fighters suck at striking. This is because she fights in the shallowest division in all of MMA - possibly all of combat sports and her grappling is head and shoulders above everyone in her division so she can get away with terrible striking.
MMA striking is a different beast from boxing and Muay Thai though, it should be judged on its own merits since when you fight MMA, you have to take into account kicks, elbows and takedowns. That's why MMA fighters often do things "wrong" from a boxing or Muay Thai perspective.
Ronda unfortunately gives a lot of credence to the idea that MMA fighters suck at striking. This is because she fights in the shallowest division in all of MMA - possibly all of combat sports and her grappling is head and shoulders above everyone in her division so she can get away with terrible striking.
MMA striking is a different beast from boxing and Muay Thai though, it should be judged on its own merits since when you fight MMA, you have to take into account kicks, elbows and takedowns. That's why MMA fighters often do things "wrong" from a boxing or Muay Thai perspective.
Post of the year candidate.She looks like Ice JJ Fish
Emerson
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The striking form in those GIFs is objectively bad and this is not a matter of opinion. If you can't recognize that you only reveal your own lack of knowledge. She is obviously a skilled fighter and not somebody I would like to fight. But her punching form is horrible, easily surpassed by even an amateur fighter, as demonstrated by those GIFs and what I've seen in some of her fights.
Always-honest
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It's better than the gifs, yes.
FinalStageBoss
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She has no business on that cover tbh
lmao@ the gifs
lmao@ the gifs
Shao Kahn on the Lawn
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The inability to do a thing does not preclude one from recognizing that it's being done poorly.
I can't deadlift 500lbs but I definitely know the proper form for deadlifting.
Chie Satonaka
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literally lol'd.
give it up. that fight will never happen
DeaconKnowledge
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There were 2 links in my post.
King Tubby
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Second link doesn't work :S
SolidSnakex
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If it didn't look bad before...
peaceiscloser
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If it didn't look bad before...
Mayweather vindicated again!
I really don't like him, but he knows this game, clearly.
Ninja Scooter
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After that display tonight putting Ronda on the cover of Ring magazine is like putting Charles Barkely on the cover of Golf Digest
Epsilon-delta
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Or Jordan on GQ.
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