Ronda Rousey insisted that her seventh defense of the UFC bantamweight title wouldn’t go the way her opponent hoped.
In recent times, Rousey has been urged to avoid a return to the Octagon due to how the sport has evolved in the time that she’s been gone.
The UFC’s first female champion wasn’t just a huge star that broke down barriers, she was levels ahead of her opposition for several years during her incredible title reign.
Rousey’s knockout loss to Holly Holm in the main event of UFC 193 didn’t just end one of the most iconic runs in the history of the sport.
It signaled a changing of the guard after ‘Rowdy’ knew exactly what her opponent was going to try and do but couldn’t stop it from happening.
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Ronda Rousey knew exactly how Holly Holm was going to try and beat her at UFC 193
The current UFC bantamweight champion, Kayla Harrison, hopes to continue using her judo background to work her way towards being the greatest female mixed martial artist of all time.
Long before Harrison arrived in the Octagon, Ronda Rousey was making the same argument with a similar specialist skillset, dominating opponents on the ground with her vastly superior grappling.
The first defeat of her career came when her inability to capitalize on this exposed significant flaws in the champion’s overall game.
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