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elder999 said:
No. Her shortest fight lasted 14 seconds, she's won nine of her eleven fights by armbar, and the longest one she's had in the UFC, against Liz Carmouche at UFC 157, lasted 4:49...the second longest was against Meisha Tate, and lasted 4:27....that accounts for about half her total ring time, with most of her wins coming in under or right around a minute....
(Oh, and I know what Tez thinks she means by sleeping around, but right now, Ronda's not dating anyone.....she says the only one she's making out with is her dog!
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Right, so basically she has come up against anybody yet that is going to give her a fight. Interesting stuff, I'll have to see if Youtube her.
 
Here's Rousey v. Carmouche:


Look for the first Rousey v. Tate, from Strikeforce, it was by an armbar that Tate refused to tap to, and wound up getting popped...pretty brutal.
 
Transk53 said:
Okay I don't disagree that Rousey is dominant, but has she actually had a real scrap yet? Someone who is going to go in pounding and avoid the ubiquitous Rousey arm bar? Just curious here. Don't see a lot of the UFC on the telly.
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It's a chicken/egg thing, Transk53. Rousey's biggest problem is that she's so much better than everyone else. So, really, one's position on this is going to stem from whether you believe she's just that much better than everyone, or the belief that she's being protected from a deep pool of equally skilled fighters and is being fed cans.

I think the former. I just don't think the woman who is better than Rousey is a professional right now. She's years out, perhaps training now for the olympics or on her high school wrestling team.
 
And here's the thing: Ronda Rousey is an Olympic athlete. She's had the benefit of decades-and at a relatively young age, she can speak of decades of training-of world class training. She's the daughter of a World Champion, and a World Champion herself-hello?

She is trained by people in my top 100 "baddest of the bad" list: Gokor Chivichyan, Benny Urquidez, Marcus Valentine (okay, him, not so much "baddest of the bad," but a more than competent boxing coach) and ,Jesus Christ, "Judo" Gene LeBell, for f@cksakes????!!!"

No wonder there's nobody to match her-I liked the idea of Sara McMann-she's an Olympiad as well, though in wrestling and (Tez?) a much better "role-mode;" than the psycho (she really is nuts) from Riverside...but Ronda's just that much better, and going to continue to be that much better at MMA than anyone else for as long as she wants, really-a long, long, time. I like Sara McMann because she has a rich life outside of wrestling and MMA; get the feeling that, World Championship and ,Olympiad status notwithstanding, if it weren't for MMA, Ronda would be workin' at Home Depot and ridin' the meth-train to the porno-boat, and Ms. McMann has lots of good things going on outside the Octagon......

......of course, now, so does Ronda-she's got options. At an aggregate average of 52 seconds per fight, her MMA career could last quite a bit past the point of her parlaying it into "movie-star" status.....frankly, on levels, I'd have to call her.....as Sports Illustrated has...dominant
 
Steve said:
It's a chicken/egg thing, Transk53. Rousey's biggest problem is that she's so much better than everyone else. So, really, one's position on this is going to stem from whether you believe she's just that much better than everyone, or the belief that she's being protected from a deep pool of equally skilled fighters and is being fed cans.

I think the former. I just don't think the woman who is better than Rousey is a professional right now. She's years out, perhaps training now for the olympics or on her high school wrestling team.
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Interesting. As I said I don't watch a lot of UFC, and to be honest it is not really my thing other than a passing interest. I had not even heard of Connor before the use of this site. Cool, good luck to her, and with being in Expendables 3, perhaps a movie career beckons too.
 
elder999 said:
. I like Sara McMann because she has a rich life outside of wrestling and MMA; get the feeling that, World Championship and ,Olympiad status notwithstanding, if it weren't for MMA, Ronda would be workin' at Home Depot and ridin' the meth-train to the porno-boat, and Ms. McMann has lots of good things going on outside the Octagon......
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I think that's an offensive thing to say. Below your dignity, sir.
 
Transk53 said:
Is that you are bordering on bullying Tez!! So what if there are contradictions, keep going on at her is simply stupid. I would politely ask you to stop.
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How is agreeing with her "bordering on bullying" her? It seems to me that a few of you are a bit confused-especially about the tone the relationship between me and Irene occasionally takes.......she doesn't like Ronda because she "sleeps around" (she thinks) and curses....well, she curses, that's for sure, and plays the heel-and she really is kinda nuts.....Sara McMann is a good person....she's a better "role model" in some ways...
....she's not a better fighter at all....
 
elder999 said:
How is agreeing with her "bordering on bullying" her? It seems to me that a few of you are a bit confused-especially about the tone the relationship between me and Irene occasionally takes.......she doesn't like Ronda because she "sleeps around" (she thinks) and curses....well, she curses, that's for sure, and plays the heel-and she really is kinda nuts.....Sara McMann is a good person....she's a better "role model" in some ways...
....she's not a better fighter at all....
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Okay if it was about Rousey, then you would have inserted Tez into it. Seems like a deliberate ploy to me. This history, whatever dude, just hiding obviously.
 
Transk53 said:
Is that you are bordering on bullying Tez!! So what if there are contradictions, keep going on at her is simply stupid. I would politely ask you to stop.
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I mean, just because she didn't like some things I said, I'm not supposed to talk to her? I thought that's what "ignore" was for, anyway-she said as much......
 
Transk53 said:
Okay if it was about Rousey, then you would have inserted Tez into it. Seems like a deliberate ploy to me. This history, whatever dude, just hiding obviously.
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She's the one who made her "dislike of Rousey" all about character-in posts that haven't been deleted. All I've done is agree-however slightly-with her about it.

Sorry, there's no "bullying" in simply using her name to speak "directly" to her, so to speak-I need to make that clear.
 
elder999 said:
She's the one who made her "dislike of Rousey" all about character-in posts that haven't been deleted. All I've done is agree-however slightly-with her about it.

Sorry, there's no "bullying" in simply using her name to speak "directly" to her, so to speak-I need to make that clear.
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Directly is not subtle when you are going off one.
 
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