Fifty-four seconds. That’s how long it took Strikeforce 135-pound champ Ronda Rousey to submit Sarah Kaufman with the one move that Kaufman had to know was coming.
You can’t microwave a Hot Pocket in that time. If you only took 54 seconds to brush your teeth, your mother would tell you to get back in there and do it again.
The fact that Rousey so easily dispatched a fighter who not so long ago stood atop the division reminds us that what’s really amazing is not just how she keeps catching opponents in the same submission, but how easy she makes it look. Maybe even too easy.