Ronda Rousey insisted that her seventh defense of the UFC bantamweight title wouldn’t go the way her opponent hoped.
In recent times, Rousey has been urged to avoid a return to the Octagon due to how the sport has evolved in the time that she’s been gone.
The UFC’s first female champion wasn’t just a huge star that broke down barriers, she was levels ahead of her opposition for several years during her incredible title reign.
Rousey’s knockout loss to Holly Holm in the main event of UFC 193 didn’t just end one of the most iconic runs in the history of the sport.
It signaled a changing of the guard after ‘Rowdy’ knew exactly what her opponent was going to try and do but couldn’t stop it from happening.
Ronda Rousey knew exactly how Holly Holm was going to try and beat her at UFC 193
The current UFC bantamweight champion, Kayla Harrison, hopes to continue using her judo background to work her way towards being the greatest female mixed martial artist of all time.
Long before Harrison arrived in the Octagon, Ronda Rousey was making the same argument with a similar specialist skillset, dominating opponents on the ground with her vastly superior grappling.
The first defeat of her career came when her inability to capitalize on this exposed significant flaws in the champion’s overall game.
Dana White defended Rousey’s approach to fighting Holly Holm at UFC 193 after many criticized how easy it was for the challenger to keep the fight at range and land strikes at will.
Rousey herself may have admitted that her game plan went out the window early on in the fight, but she was still very aware of how Holm would try to beat her.
In an appearance on ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’ just over one month before her title defense, the champion perfectly predicted her own downfall.
“This one’s gonna be a much longer fight… She’s the type of fighter that you have to be very patient with,” Rousey stated. “I feel like she’s going to try and keep distance and keep far away from me and get me frustrated to a point where I’ll make a mistake and she can try and kick me in the head but it’s not going to go like that. Not the way that she wants.”
Ronda Rousey had no reason to doubt herself heading into UFC 193
During her late-night talk show appearance ahead of UFC 193, Ronda Rousey spoke very highly of Holly Holm.
The bantamweight champion recognized that her opponent’s style would undoubtedly be the toughest test for her, but she had faced very little adversity inside the Octagon until that point.
Her four previous title defenses had all ended in the first round, with only one of them making it past the one-minute mark.
“If I make the fight fast, that means I like you,” Rousey said during a 2015 appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
“That’s me at my most merciful. She got to go home with a payment to go buy a house. She had a great night if you think about it. But, with this next chick, who I don’t like, it’s not going to be like that. She’s going to walk out looking different than she did walking in.”
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