After all, Rousey is the bigger brilliant in the absolute sport, macho or female, and she was a ahead best accident apparatus of ahead concealed proportions.
And Holly Holm assured all that with one, abrupt bang to the head.
So, if Holm bankrupt down in assorted interviews afterwards the fight, she became an alluring backup to the icy persona Rousey had portrayed for years.
After the action concluded, Holm answered questions in the belly of Etihad Stadium in Melbourne. Emotions were active high, and Holm accepted she hadn't had abundant time to let the moment actually bore in.“This action was a lot for me, mentally,” Holm said. “I couldn’t acquaint you how abounding times I cried in the gym arch up to this fight. It’s a lot to yield in. But those affectionate of fights are the ones that, a accident is that devastating, but a win is that candied of a victory. It’s afflictive sometimes, but I just actually like to yield the adventitious and accept in myself.
“It’s harder to put yourself out there sometimes. I apperceive a lot of humans acquainted it was early. I didn’t apprehend the buzz alarm to appear this early, but I just attending at it as: If you don’t yield the opportunities that are in foreground of you, how do you apprehend to get anywhere?”
Holm says she visualized the fight-ending top bang landing, but never able for one specific aftereffect – Rousey was far too alarming an adversary for that. She was aswell quick to admonish anybody that Rousey didn’t just accord her the fight.
Yes, Rousey uncharacteristically approved to barter punches with Holm, but Holm aswell credibility out that Rousey had her in a assure – something that would commonly arresting the end of the action in years accomplished – searching for a hip toss. And for a abrupt moment, Rousey managed to accept her in the alpha of one of her signature arm bars. But Holm survived it all, and looked absorbing in the process.
That isn’t to say Holm just automatically affected she would exhausted the World’s A lot of Ascendant Athlete.
“Absolutely,” said Holm if asked if she anytime doubted herself arch up to the fight. “I don’t anticipate you can adapt yourself if you’re not acquainted what can happen; she’s been the a lot of ascendant athlete. So yeah, there were canicule in the gym, I didn’t accomplish well, sat in my car, agitated and I cried. And I thought, you apperceive what, if I accomplish like that, that’s not traveling to get me a win. So, I charge to appear aback tonight, and I charge to absolute those things. I charge to get better. So, yes, there are moments in your apperception if you agnosticism yourself.”
Holm says she consistently like to say “if I win” rather than “when I win.” She thinks speaking in absolute is a compound for disaster. She’d rather be advanced about her possibilities rather than pumping herself up with abeyant delusions of grandeur.
Now, afterwards acceptable the gold off Rousey in one of the bigger upsets in action sports history, questions abide as to who’s next for the new UFC women’s bantamweight champ.
There accept been rumblings of a abeyant Miesha Tate fight, but Tate is currently affected in a mini-beef with UFC brass. So, who knows if they’ll be handing out appellation shots to “Cupcake” anytime soon.
And yes, there is the always-looming adumbration of Cristiane “Cyborg” Justino – who, up until Saturday, was the odds-on admired to degrade Rousey – but she isn’t even in the UFC appropriate now. Justino fights for the UFC’s sister promotion, Invicta FC. Unfortunately for Justino, however, she is abundantly bugged to the accidental MMA fan, so an accessible appellation attempt seems awful unlikely.
It all accordingly leads us aback to Ronda Rousey. The analysis was created for her, and she has taken the action to an actually new admirers in her two abbreviate years as (former) champion.
Prior to Saturday’s knockout loss, Rousey’s endure action was in August adjoin Bethe Correia. The action was a desperate conflict and the card, overall, was about as blah as it gets. Yet, on accidental absorption and absurd boilerplate media hype, the action amid Correia and Rousey did one actor buys on pay-per-view – a actually amazing accomplishment.
The point here, being: No one is angry Holly Holm next except Ronda Rousey.Something Holm readily agrees with.
“I anticipate a rematch makes faculty for sure,” she said. “I’ve been on the accident ancillary of a action and I capital the rematch, I capital to avenge my loss. With a best like Ronda – who has gone out of her way, aloft and beyond, to do abundant things – actually she deserves a rematch.
“I don’t attending at this belt and anticipate I’ve fabricated it. I anticipate I still accept things that I charge to do. I anticipate a rematch, I anticipate that’s affectionate of bond accepted faculty to me.”
UFC 200 is set for July 2016 at the anew complete MGM Arena in Las Vegas. And what bigger way to asperse the new address than with the bigger rematch in the history of the sport?
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