Holm says many fall into the trap of thinking they have one way of beating Rousey. “I lost the finals at the (judo) world championships when I wanted to be world champ like my mother (1984 champion AnnMaria De Mars)”, Rousey said. She sticks, she moves.
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Let’s be honest, if you aren’t an MMA fan, can you even name a fighter other than Ronda Rousey? Holly is kind of the opposite. “All that respect, all that everything, all you being sweet, I see right now that it’s fake and you’re gonna get it on Sunday [Saturday in America]”. It’s a tough fight for Holly. Experts seem to think Joanna Jedrzejczyk will KO Valerie Letourneau in the first half of the fight making sure it ends early. Rousey stated. “I’m going to show you on Sunday why I’m the champion”.
Rousey, a former Olympic judoka, has helped push mixed martial arts into the mainstream of USA sport with a series of dynamic knockout victories that have earned her comparisons to Mike Tyson’s rise in heavyweight boxing during the 1980s.
– Robbie Lawler, UFC welterweight champion: “It’s going to be a great fight”. Obviously Ronda’s on a tear. I didn’t touch her.
– Chas Skelly, UFC featherweight: “I like them both though”. “She’s out there to convince the judges that she won, not her opponent, where as I’m always out there to convince my opponent that I’m the best”.
She said: “This is a mission that was given to me”.
The magazine’s history, with different ownership, includes scandals where the fighter rankings were bought and sold, so it is important to know just how the magazine is run. It remains to be seen come fight night if Holm has enough tricks in her bag to pull off an upset. Things just got a little bit hotter in Australia, will you be tuning in to watch the outcome? “I saw it was my manager and it was probably going to take a few minutes”.
For those keeping score, three fighters picked Rousey and one went with Holm.
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The duo’s bantamweight title fight headlines the UFC 193 card in Melbourne and gave the fight the billing it deserves with a feisty stand-off.
