After a humbling defeat to Amanda Nunes at UFC 207, Ronda Rousey indicated on Instagram on Tuesday morning that she might fight again.
Nunes recently said that Rousey was overrated and a product of the UFC hype machine, but Jones disagrees with that notion.
“She was stiff, she’s not a striker, and you don’t punch a puncher”, Diana Prazak, a former WBC champion, said about Rousey’s latest defeat exclusively to Sky Sports. She posted a quote from “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling on her social media, hinting that she may try to rebuild.
Ronda has kept largely out of the spotlight since the fight.
Both of the fighters’ families and corners were caught on film during the final seconds of the fight as Nunes landed a barrage of strikes to hand Rousey her second straight knockout loss. Considering how guarded Rousey’s training was – we only saw her hit mitts with Tarverdyan – there was always skepticism about Rousey’s striking prowess. They start going, ‘Five or six more years, let me try this out’. And people are realizing that maybe she’s not as good a striker as she is a ground specialist.
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Rousey’s mom, AnnMaria De Mars, admitted after the match last month that she wanted her daughter to retire a “long time ago”.
Despite her struggles, Holm will face Germaine de Randamie (6-3, 3-1 UFC) for the inaugural UFC women’s featherweight belt at UFC 208 on February 11 at Barclays Center. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged.
Now, Cyborg has taken to that very same post’s comments section to congratulate Ronda on her career and voice her own appreciation for what the armbar specialist has done for the sport.