Just because she’s a lighter fighter and may be now over-shadowed by Rousey, doesn’t mean she’s not a badass.
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“I follow Ronda”, Jedrzejczyk shared. As for total fight time, that’s where Rousey separates herself from Holm, and pretty much any fighter that has every competed.
We’ll get you into the fight, you’ve just got to get yourself to Etihad Stadium in Melbourne on Sunday.
“I’m going to knock his lips off in the first round”, he said.
“I so desperately want there to be a girl Jedi and I don’t want to be sitting around wondering if that is going to happen”. If my teeth are repeatedly hitting your teeth, then there’s a problem with what you’re doing.
Joanna: I didn’t really expect it. I was a world champion and European champion and in the beginning I didn’t like MMA. I liked [it], but I didn’t want to compete in the MMA because it’s a insane sport.
Any moments catch you thinking how big you’ve become?
The real arguments is whether or not she is the most dominant athlete in the world, and if she’s not number one, who is? Believe me, there’s nothing I would like to do more than disappear for a while. But I was happy, and I met her, and I was stressed out as well. She was forced to settle for bronze and would eventually turn to MMA in 2010, winning her first amateur fight by submission.
“I voted for Roseanne last time”, she said.
The second biggest cheer was reserved for adopted Aussie and combat sports great Mark Hunt (10-10). I’m like, ‘Get your lube away from me. You guys are nearly the exact same age.
Okamoto: Now see this – this I’m actually OK with. Then there’s physical therapy and diet all the time.
“Bigfoot” is coming off a first-round knockout win over Soa Palelei, a long-time friend and training partner of Hunt’s, while the local favourite has dropped back-to-back outings, but records and recent results don’t matter coming into this one. “I feel like it’s better for all of us”. Silva’s positive test following the bout scuttled those plans initially, but almost two years later, they’re ready to do it again. That’s why I’m going to win. “The reason I say that is I don’t care if you train wrestling and judo five years professionally as a mixed martial artist, you can’t catch up to someone who’s been doing it their entire life”.
Joanna Jedrzejczyk is scary good inside the octagon right now.
Rousey might make it interesting by testing her boxing against Holm, but if things get hairy, there won’t be any issue wrestling Holm to the ground. It would be foolish to question her boxing credentials. “I don’t get scared of how nervous I get and all the pressure and attention and the crowds and everything because I know in my heart that’s when I do best”.
Rousey knows the business well enough now to understand the equivalent of an armbar to reporters is a no-comment from the champion. Someone’s “0” has to go when they face off Saturday. They’ll all make a lot more money that way.
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“They gave me confidence so when it came I can’t say I was surprised because it’s something we already saw in my future anyway”, Holm said. But I’m on a different level.
