When a champion like Rousey loses, it is very easy to find excuses but sometimes you have to recognize that on that night, the opposition was better and more ready. Holly Holmes knocked out Ronda Rousey in the second round with a ferocious head kick now her coaches tell us that the world might be surprised but they saw it coming all along.
“It was pretty much what we thought would happen,” said Greg Jackson, one of Holm’s head coaches. “Obviously, she’s an amazing athlete and we have nothing but respect for her, but she’s been very successful doing the same things for a long time, and we were able to capitalize on that. The other coaches and I got together, and we’re not fans. We’re not like, ‘Oh God, Rousey is the greatest ever.’ It’s just a math problem to us. So it’s hard to understand the perspective just because this is what we do for a living. This is my job to figure it out”.
We saw the clip where Rousey predicted how the fight was going to go but she was still unable to find the answers but Holm’s coaches insist the new UFC champion never showed all her cards during her career because they knew this day was coming.
“She tried to box, and that wasn’t successful,” Winkeljohn said. “She tried to clinch and found out how hard that was. She tried to armbar. There was a lot of things that happened in that short amount of time, as a matter of fact, Holly took her down. So people are seeing a lot of what Holly can do. We knew we were fighting Ronda Rousey one day, so Holly never wanted to show all her cards. She still hasn’t shown all of her cards after tonight.”
It will be interesting to see how Rousey rebound from this crushing loss, one thing for sure she will take Holm even more seriously if they are to square up again for a rematch and that fight won’t be hard to sell for Dana White.
