I saw that you posted a few days ago that you feel compelled to take the bait and buy that PPV.
I'm not sure I would advise that, unless you have some friends coming over and are in it for the pure entertainment and curiosity.
I don't think it's going to be a competitive fight at all. But I do have a morbid curiosity as to what Rousey will do to "punish" Correia, as she says she will. If you are also curious about the beatdown, then by all means it should be interesting. But from a competitive standpoint, I think it's a blowout.
I watched Correia's fights against Shayna WhatsHerName and the tall 5-foot-11 striker lady (Duke, or whatever her name is. She's a Rousey protegé and former contestant on The Ultimate Fighter TV series).
Anyway, I was not at all impressed with Correia. She is way out of her league vs Rousey.
Correia throws good punch combinations and hits hard against a hurt opponent, but that's all. She has an undefeated record and beat two or three of Rousey's friends, and has a big mouth. So UFC and Rousey and Dana White are capitalizing on an unbeaten vs unbeaten scenario with the opponent doing a great job of selling the fight by creating a blood feud rivalry. And they're putting it in a big venue with a big ticket price in Brazil, helped in part by the all-Brazilian rematch of Shogun vs Little Nog.
It's a great promotion, but Rousey vs Correia isn't going to be the pier six brawl you might think it could be.
Actually, Correia should be required to beat a top contender before getting this title shot. But the UFC doesn't want to put her in the ring with Miesha Tate, or Jessica Eye, or the Canadian wrestler girl because she would lose to any of them, and mess up the undefeated vs undefeated blood feud promotion they have going for this one.
Correia's take-down defense vs Shayna and the tall Duke girl was remedial. The tall girl, who is a novice at judo, actually executed two or three throws vs Correia. If that's Ronda, those throws end in decisive positioning for Ronda and Ronda would be able to do whatever she wanted to her at that point.
Correia hasn't fought in 11 months, so I suppose there is a chance she has improved her takedown defense and ground skills. But that's like asking Branden Dawson to learn how to shoot 3-pointers like Steph Curry.
Ronda says she went straight to Dana after watching the Correia-Duke fight (from Duke's corner) and said she wanted to fight Correia, and wanted to fight her in Brazil so she could punish her in front of her countrymen. Ronda saw the mistakes Correia made and the success Duke had with some of the grappling and knows that this will be NFL vs JV when Ronda gets her hands on her.
Correia got in trouble on the ground a couple of times vs DUke and a couple of times vs Shayna. Again, if that's Ronda, it's an easy lights-out scenario.
Correia hits hard, but she doesn't have the one-punch power that can really alter a match. In fact, I haven't seen any of the female fighters with one-punch, game-changing power. That's not what they do. And I don't think she'll get enough opportunities to put an accumulation-effect barrage of punches on Ronda.
I think it's possible to beat Ronda with stand-up fist striking. But that person is going to need great take-down defense and great footwork and great footspeed.
Correia does not have good footspeed. I would go as far as to say she has substandard footspeed. And she's kind of short. And she's lacking take-down defense. I think she'll be easy prey for Ronda.
In seeing the highlights of Correia's fights vs Shayna and Duke, I assumed she came forward and dominated those fights like Mike Tyson. But that wasn't the case. The Duke fight was close. And Correia cried when she got the decision. And Duke isn't in Ronda's universe as a fighter.
Correia landed some decent leg kicks on Duke, but none of them seemed to bother Duke all that much. And Duke left her front leg out there to be struck. Ronda won't do that, and unless she baits her.
Correia loads up, tries to come in with fists, and doesn't do it with much quickness.
She got to Shayna with an accumulation of punches midway through the second round, and landed some good body shots which brought Shayne to a standstill. ANd then Correia was able to unleash the impressive punch combinations that you saw in the highlight packages. Again, this was against a battered opponent who wasn't fighting back at that point.
There's always a "puncher's chance" in fight sports. But, like I said, one-punch, fight-changing power hasn't been part of the equation in women's MMA. Correia is supposed to be a power puncher, but it took dozens of her punches to start hurting Shayna, and she never hurt Duke. I don't give her a "puncher's" chance.
I think Ronda loses only if she trips on her own feet and messes up her own knee or ankle somehow. And even then, she might be able to sit on the canvas and still win this fight.
Correia has the record, the highlights, the mouth to sell this PPV. But this will be easy for Ronda. I agree with Miesha Tate, who said Correia is in over her head with this one.
Again, the only thing I would be interested in is the lengths Ronda go to in order to punish Correia. I think Ali "carried" Floyd Patterson several extra rounds in their title fight in order to punish Patterson. I think he did against Oscar Bonavena, too, because Bonavena mockingly called Ali "Clay" during pre-fight press conferences.
That was Ali, who could sting you. But Ronda can really, really hurt you if she gets the chance. Will she get the arm bar on her and then let go of it in order to ground-and-pound her, and carry her for five rounds to really mess her up?
Randy Couture carried James Toney for an extra minute or two in their MMA fight. Ronda is more sadistic than Couture. So I am curious to see how far she takes the punishment and how she's able to prolong the "lesson." At what point would Correia's corner throw in the towel? I don't know. That's the curiousity, more so than the actual competitiveness of this fight, in my opinion. Correia hasn't shown anything near the level of take-down defense and grappling ability to hang in this fight.
I'm not sure I would advise that, unless you have some friends coming over and are in it for the pure entertainment and curiosity.
I don't think it's going to be a competitive fight at all. But I do have a morbid curiosity as to what Rousey will do to "punish" Correia, as she says she will. If you are also curious about the beatdown, then by all means it should be interesting. But from a competitive standpoint, I think it's a blowout.
I watched Correia's fights against Shayna WhatsHerName and the tall 5-foot-11 striker lady (Duke, or whatever her name is. She's a Rousey protegé and former contestant on The Ultimate Fighter TV series).
Anyway, I was not at all impressed with Correia. She is way out of her league vs Rousey.
Correia throws good punch combinations and hits hard against a hurt opponent, but that's all. She has an undefeated record and beat two or three of Rousey's friends, and has a big mouth. So UFC and Rousey and Dana White are capitalizing on an unbeaten vs unbeaten scenario with the opponent doing a great job of selling the fight by creating a blood feud rivalry. And they're putting it in a big venue with a big ticket price in Brazil, helped in part by the all-Brazilian rematch of Shogun vs Little Nog.
It's a great promotion, but Rousey vs Correia isn't going to be the pier six brawl you might think it could be.
Actually, Correia should be required to beat a top contender before getting this title shot. But the UFC doesn't want to put her in the ring with Miesha Tate, or Jessica Eye, or the Canadian wrestler girl because she would lose to any of them, and mess up the undefeated vs undefeated blood feud promotion they have going for this one.
Correia's take-down defense vs Shayna and the tall Duke girl was remedial. The tall girl, who is a novice at judo, actually executed two or three throws vs Correia. If that's Ronda, those throws end in decisive positioning for Ronda and Ronda would be able to do whatever she wanted to her at that point.
Correia hasn't fought in 11 months, so I suppose there is a chance she has improved her takedown defense and ground skills. But that's like asking Branden Dawson to learn how to shoot 3-pointers like Steph Curry.
Ronda says she went straight to Dana after watching the Correia-Duke fight (from Duke's corner) and said she wanted to fight Correia, and wanted to fight her in Brazil so she could punish her in front of her countrymen. Ronda saw the mistakes Correia made and the success Duke had with some of the grappling and knows that this will be NFL vs JV when Ronda gets her hands on her.
Correia got in trouble on the ground a couple of times vs DUke and a couple of times vs Shayna. Again, if that's Ronda, it's an easy lights-out scenario.
Correia hits hard, but she doesn't have the one-punch power that can really alter a match. In fact, I haven't seen any of the female fighters with one-punch, game-changing power. That's not what they do. And I don't think she'll get enough opportunities to put an accumulation-effect barrage of punches on Ronda.
I think it's possible to beat Ronda with stand-up fist striking. But that person is going to need great take-down defense and great footwork and great footspeed.
Correia does not have good footspeed. I would go as far as to say she has substandard footspeed. And she's kind of short. And she's lacking take-down defense. I think she'll be easy prey for Ronda.
In seeing the highlights of Correia's fights vs Shayna and Duke, I assumed she came forward and dominated those fights like Mike Tyson. But that wasn't the case. The Duke fight was close. And Correia cried when she got the decision. And Duke isn't in Ronda's universe as a fighter.
Correia landed some decent leg kicks on Duke, but none of them seemed to bother Duke all that much. And Duke left her front leg out there to be struck. Ronda won't do that, and unless she baits her.
Correia loads up, tries to come in with fists, and doesn't do it with much quickness.
She got to Shayna with an accumulation of punches midway through the second round, and landed some good body shots which brought Shayne to a standstill. ANd then Correia was able to unleash the impressive punch combinations that you saw in the highlight packages. Again, this was against a battered opponent who wasn't fighting back at that point.
There's always a "puncher's chance" in fight sports. But, like I said, one-punch, fight-changing power hasn't been part of the equation in women's MMA. Correia is supposed to be a power puncher, but it took dozens of her punches to start hurting Shayna, and she never hurt Duke. I don't give her a "puncher's" chance.
I think Ronda loses only if she trips on her own feet and messes up her own knee or ankle somehow. And even then, she might be able to sit on the canvas and still win this fight.
Correia has the record, the highlights, the mouth to sell this PPV. But this will be easy for Ronda. I agree with Miesha Tate, who said Correia is in over her head with this one.
Again, the only thing I would be interested in is the lengths Ronda go to in order to punish Correia. I think Ali "carried" Floyd Patterson several extra rounds in their title fight in order to punish Patterson. I think he did against Oscar Bonavena, too, because Bonavena mockingly called Ali "Clay" during pre-fight press conferences.
That was Ali, who could sting you. But Ronda can really, really hurt you if she gets the chance. Will she get the arm bar on her and then let go of it in order to ground-and-pound her, and carry her for five rounds to really mess her up?
Randy Couture carried James Toney for an extra minute or two in their MMA fight. Ronda is more sadistic than Couture. So I am curious to see how far she takes the punishment and how she's able to prolong the "lesson." At what point would Correia's corner throw in the towel? I don't know. That's the curiousity, more so than the actual competitiveness of this fight, in my opinion. Correia hasn't shown anything near the level of take-down defense and grappling ability to hang in this fight.
