MELBOURNE, Australia — It wasn’t an improbable scene from a movie, it wasn’t a momentary lapse before normality was restored, and no, we weren’t imagining it.
That really was Ronda Rousey, on her back on the canvas, being saved by the referee from an opponent’s onslaught and surrendering her perfect record in mixed martial arts in the process.
The legend of Rousey as an unstoppable force, impossible to either stop or silence, was indeed broken by Holly Holm on Saturday night, in an upset that flipped the world of women’s UFC on its head.
Holm was the underdog of all underdogs, dismissed and derided as yet another in a long line of Rousey victims in the lead-up to UFC 193 at Etihad Stadium.
Part of that was her own relative inexperience in the octagon, but most of it was down to the mystique of Rousey, who leapt into the public consciousness and her role as MMA’s biggest star in rapid time… see more
source: usatoday
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