It’s only days before the highly anticipated UFC fight between Ronda Rousey and Holly Holm. So, I do believe she’ll last longer than a round. If anyone’s going to teach you how to spurn unwanted male advances, you want Auntie Ronda to do it. Hania is now an orange belt in judo.
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“I’m selling a product and I have to be out there; I don’t have the option not to be”, she says.
The full execution of the move would see her wrap her legs around an opponent’s torso for extra leverage – thankfully she was wearing a dress for the interview and couldn’t demonstrate it fully. “That’s the thing we’ve seen in this sport”. I was a big underdog in my last fight, too. She’s not the best boxer in the world, but she is good.
“She’s really intelligent about having her career and acting after she retires”.
“Ambition should be idealised”.
Coming from the world of boxing, Holm is used to getting hit. Seven months later in a rematch, Holm put on a boxing show, relying on her conditioning to out-point Mathis by unanimous decision.
Meanwhile, Roach is now working with another UFC superstar, Georges St. Pierre and has reaffirmed his belief that the former welterweight champion will return to the Octagon.
So what’s next for the champ?
The fight is already a guaranteed financial victory with the UFC expecting to pack in 70,000 fans and Rousey continuing her unabated climb up the pop-culture ranks.
No doubt she’ll be a knock out in those. She remarks, “Women everywhere are going to thank me for their guys putting in a little bit of effort and not just going to the store for a short-cut; oh hell no”. Pedro, who didn’t approve at first, has watched her star rise more than he ever imagined. It was in the second round when Jedrzejczyk turned the fight in her favour with an elbow to the bridge of Penne’s nose that opened her up and caused her to fight more defensively.
“I said before the fight that I had a few aces in my pocket”, said Jedrzejczyk after the event.
Tarverdyan also spoke about his relationship with Rousey and whether he thinks they will still remain close even after she retires.
I mean, I wouldn’t vote for him.
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“What’s happening today is that you have Ronda, who is a devastatingly-trained assassin, fighting against girls who have only recently started trying to catch up to something that she’s practiced for her whole life”. “I planned to, instead of trying to force a clinch, overwhelm her with striking first to force her to clinch and that’s exactly what happened”.
