By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close
goopy20 on 29 August 2015
Edit Thread
greenmedic88 said:
goopy20 said:

I think Rousey is actually a good fighter but you gotta admit the rest of the female UFC fighters are also pretty crap. Rousey reminds me of Royce Gracie. Nowadays Gracie would got destroyed by most UFC fighters but back in the early days of MMA he made everybody look like amateurs, simply because his opponents weren't as well trained and well rounded as we see today.

But like I said, I do enjoy watching Rousey fight, I just don't like the way the UFC is hyping her to be some unbeatable fighting machine. Because againt any male UFC fighter in her weightclass would outskill her. Just look at her sparring with Mousasi, he makes her look like a kid that is practing her Judo moves on a grown man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7rujK0iOJU

Obviously, Mousasi is much larger, but she actually said she believes she could take out Velasquez on a good day lol. 

I don't know why more people haven't been making this analogy.

The key difference is that no one trained in ground fighting back in the initial days of the UFC except for the Gracies. The BJJ illusion of invincibility was shattered once fighters with wrestling pedigrees entered the sport. 

But yes, woman's MMA, despite having a ten plus year history, is still very much in its adolescence with regards to producing well rounded fighters with comprehensive skill sets who train professionally full time. 

Rousey just happens to be far ahead of the pack today. 

True, female MMA is just still in its infancy, especially when it comes to striking. Rousey's standup is also mediocre and she would get knocked the hell out in seconds by any half decent striker if is she threw those wild haymakers that she used in her last fight. However, in the women's UFC division there just isn't any fighter that could really make her pay in the stand-up, except for maybe Cyborg, but the UFC doesn't want that fight to happen and risk Rousey losing to some fugly chick that has no marketing appeal at all.    

Funny thing is that people now make it seem like Judo is the ultimate combat sport and she's destroying everybody because we never seen a Judo Olympian compete in MMA.. There have been ton of male Judo Olympians in MMA and judo alone never got them very far. BJJ is basically a more efficient form of judo and 90% of the male fighters got a pretty good BJJ base nowadays.

Just look at this match where you got a Judo Olympian vs Renzo Gracie's BJJ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BErIY92RufI

Or  Akiyama vs Jerome Le Banner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oat0OFuB24o

In theory it shouldn't be to hard for the female fighters to come up with some sort of gameplan to counter Rousey's Judo. The problem, I think, is that female fighters don't get the kind of support that the male fighters are getting because they're still not taking seriously. I mean male fighters have specialists fly in all the time to prepare for a fight, but I kinda doubt Holly Holm will be able to do that.