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***OFFICIAL*** Ronda Rousey vs. Sara McMann Thread

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#1 ·



Women's Bantamweight bout: 135 pounds
Main event - Five round fight for the UFC Women's Bantamweight Title


 
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#66 ·
I agree that was a girl's stoppage, but you can't blame Herb cuz Sara dropped hard and was getting hit repeatedly. But I do think Sara given her Olympic caliber credentials (mindset) would have been able to get back.

Impressive to see new wrinkles in her game. Her defense is her offense.
 
#72 ·
it was a bad stoppage but i think most refs would have pulled the trigger. Mcmann dropped really hard and covered up her liver. It was more of who would have had good enough reflexes to stop themselves in the middle of jumping to stop the fight.


Im surprised people are talking crap about this event??? I know the stoppage sucked but this event was alot of fun. Last time people were complaining about all the decisions and now people are complaining cause of fights ending too quick??
 
#81 ·
The Pyle fight was stopped too late, Maia gassed and looked 1/3rd his normal self after the first round which took all suspense out of the fight, Cromier fought a guy who doesn't deserve to be in the UFC and only got there because Dana wanted to play WWE for a little while, and the main event was stopped early.

The event wasn't bad, but it was full of stupid things and something or the other took away some of the fun from every single fight.
 
#73 ·
WTF Am I the only one who thinks it's strange that Ronda seems to be sponsored by the UFC or something? She wears all UFC attire and they promote the damn headphones she is wearing it's like she is a UFC drone. Is that not favoritism and unfair to other fighters? Or am I overreacting?

Also I agree stoppage was early. Gotta let title fights go a little longer and give people a chance to recover.
 
#75 ·
I think the event was fine. But it's a title fight. I don't know that McMann would have recovered fully. For all I know, Ronda would have followed up with a second body shot and knocked McMann right back down. But Herb jumped in and ended the fight within the first 10 seconds. He never even gave Sara a chance to recover. These aren't two scrubs fighting outside of the local bar. You give world class athletes more than 10 seconds to get their wits about them. Herb robbed McMann, and he absolutely robbed the fans of what was shaping up to be a fun fight.
 
#76 ·
I think the event was fine. But it's a title fight. I don't know that McMann would have recovered fully. For all I know, Ronda would have followed up with a second body shot and knocked McMann right back down. But Herb jumped in and ended the fight within the first 10 seconds. He never even gave Sara a chance to recover.
Imagine is Rousey would have had the presence of mind to start throwing more knees to her liver while she was down, everyone would be screaming that Herb should have stopped it sooner.
 
#82 · (Edited)
Not an easy call for hd there, it was quick but she also flopped pretty dramatically and was not covering up when the heat followed her down. Oh well. It was a perfect knee by rousey, that shouldn't be overlooked, bas is smiling somewhere.

I thought this event lived up to realistic hype, it was poor on paper this morning and never got beyond being poor cumulatively. This ppv was no where near worth the price. Glad I didn't pay.
 
#104 ·
What I see is MMAF is getting over populated of spoiled fans. It is normal to have positive and negative criticism, but lately, when you go into a thread like this, the general idea is "everything sucks", "MMA is downhill", "Dana, Rogan and Ronda are just selling rotten tomatoes", "Herb Dean sucks big time", "those guys are two cans" (Cans > Fans, btw).

Every event is unpredictable. Fighters are doing their best, with all their good and bad calls and not every fight can be that exciting for everybody.

People are still discussing the excitement of women MMA and this is clearly a matter of opinion. You don't like women fighting, you don't like lighter divisions? Move along. Don't watch and thus don't waste time commenting.

The fight was short, so what? We just saw Ronda Rousey break her own streak of submissions and go toe to toe against a strong Olympic wrestler and not only made the fight standing but got the KO with precise knees to the liver. How that wasn't exciting?

People underestimate how painful and incapacitating blows to the liver can be. It is so destructive Sara collapsed to her knees like a bag of potatoes and did not care to protect her head. She was done. Sure after she is no longer in danger she recovered, it's not like she were unconscious. She was classy about HD, but she also knows she was in a world of trouble and doing zero to protect herself.

Sure I wanted to see more fight, but Ronda destroyed Sara.

Herb Dean is an embarrassment. He basically let TJ Waldburger get murdered in an unmeaningful fight and then stops a TITLE fight after one solid shot.
There's no such thing as an "unmeaningful fight" when we are talking about professionals here.
Maybe a street brawl following a traffic dispute could receive that label. ;)
 
#88 ·
I'm surprises she immediately went for the clinch against such a decorated wrestler. But after watching her game plan I suppose it made sense. I love seeing body shot TKOs. It's so under rated.

Ronda is very similar to Fedor with those wild punches. She loves the clinch game and excels in those wild scrambles.

Pretty impressive stuff.
 
#96 ·
Your FFL did pretty well tonight, sideways. Good job!

I admit, I was on the fence about Whittaker vs. Thompson and thought Whittaker would try to once again expose Thompson's weak ground game to earn a decision. Apparently, that wasn't in the cards and he got demolished. Props to Thompson, his standup is extremely impressive. I just hope he continues to work hard on his flaws because I'd hate to see his obvious skills go to waste due to him not balancing out his entire game.

Glad to see Rousey pick up the win by something other than an arm bar.
 
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#107 ·
The Waldburger fight was a horribly late stoppage. This stoppage might have been early but it is pretty hard to tell with liver shots just how bad it is. You really can't defend yourself after you get dropped by one either. It isn't like you are badly rocked and just slow to react; you can't lift your arms up to protect yourself and your legs are gone. That could last for a couple seconds or for a while so it is hard to say how many shots someone needs to eat to the face to stop it.
 
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