![]() ![]() Killing the queen won't be the result of mindless brawling. Taking her bantamweight title will come down to discipline, distance and bravado. She's spent a lifetime mastering those elements -a three-month training camp won't be enough. It won't come by improving your clinch game and working hard on your bottom game. She has the market cornered on those attributes. It's not.īeating Rousey won't be a matter of brute strength and aggression. Trying to outslug Rousey seems like the smart play. And then Rousey will toss you to the ground as she did Correia. Whether you land that punch or not, the clinch will follow. If you plant your feet to unleash a haymaker, Rousey has won already. She accepts it as a cost of doing business. She knows she's going to get hit charging in. That, of course, is exactly what Rousey wants. She stood her ground and threw her right hand. She stood right in front of Rousey as she charged, refusing to move offline and doing what every startled deer does when the lioness attacks. Really basic, but game-changing stuff.Ĭorreia fought like she had read Slack's breakdown -and was determined to do everything exactly wrong. Boxing 101: step off line and circle away from the edge of the ring.Īnd if you do get close to the corner, you fake to go one way and you change directions. No, Rousey rushed them on a straight line. Rousey didn't methodically work them toward the fence, cutting off the cage and taking away space each time, all while staying down behind her guard. There was nothing to stop any of Rousey's opponents from circling away from her. The flurry that finished Correia, after all, came immediately after the challenger was tossed ignominiously on her rump.īut as former Bleacher Report analyst Jack Slack explained in a great piece on Fightland, that result is not an inevitability: ![]() When she puts hands on you, it's all over.Įven when Rousey is intent on using her hands, as she was here against a light-punching opponent who was practically tailor-made for trying out new techniques, her clinch still informs everything. Her game is built around the clinch, an area of expertise she spent years perfecting en route to two Olympic Games representing the United States in judo. She's a next-level athlete, strong and fast and hyper-aggressive. There's no one in the division who can offer competition." She knows she can submit you, and now she can use her striking and develop that more, and get even better. She'll pick out mistakes and get better with her striking and get even more dangerous. This fight will add more value to her training in the future. "Ronda just finds a new way to win each time. She's looking to finish her opponent the second the bell rings. This is years and years of competing at an elite level. "If you respect the hands, you get thrown down. "She's going to continue to be a problem for everyone because it'll be a pick-your-poison scenario," UFC on Fox commentator Kenny Florian said after the fight. ![]()
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