"Ronda Rousey (13-2) took all of 17 seconds to submit Gina Carano at the inaugural MMA event on Netflix on Saturday. A little anticlimactic, but not unexpected, given Carano had been out of the sport for 17 years. Rousey herself hadn't fought in a decade, spending time in professional wrestling's WWE following the end of her UFC career. Yet her judo skills were clearly still in top form on Saturday, as she landed a takedown, moved to mount, and locked in an arm-bar in seconds."
""Rowdy" noted following the bout at the Inuit Dome in L.A. that there was no anxiety or stress in her latest fight camp. That's something she credited Carano for. "She's rekindled my love for this again. I used to feel such a huge wave of relief after a win, and I didn't even feel that at all tonight. Because I wasn't stressed out, I didn't have all this anxiety weighing on my again.""
""Through this fight camp I kind of figured out the way I should have been doing it all along. That's another gift that she gave to me. This experience, the last year and a half has been so fun. I've had such a great time. This is the best camp of my life, and I'm so glad I got to end it like this.""
""I think this is much better than retiring undefeated," Rousey stated backstage after the event. "I think I didn't really learn until I went into pro wrestling and saw that 'oh, if you retire with the title, you take all the equity with you.' And that would have been to the detriment of the division if I did that. I think that's one part of why the 145 pound division is gone in the UFC. It retired with Amanda [Nunes].""
Ronda Rousey defeated Gina Carano in the inaugural Netflix MMA event in Los Angeles, finishing the fight in 17 seconds. Carano had been away from MMA for 17 years, while Rousey had not competed in a decade after moving to professional wrestling. Rousey used her judo to secure a takedown, advance to mount, and apply an arm-bar quickly. After the bout, Rousey said her camp involved no anxiety or stress and credited Carano for rekindling her love for fighting. She also said the experience helped her realize how she should train. Following her retirement, she said retiring undefeated would have been worse because retiring with a title takes equity away from the division, contributing to the disappearance of the UFC 145-pound division.
Read at Cageside Press
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]