LAS VEGAS – While many MMA pundits are busy arguing that women’s MMA is
all but dead, the biggest story coming out of Friday’s Strikeforce
Challengers 18 event seemed to be fast-rising female prospect Ronda
Rousey’s controversial win over Sarah D’Alelio.
Except, to hear Rousey and even Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker tell it, there really was no controversy at all.
In fact, Coker said he appreciated Rousey’s respectful handling of a
first-round armbar that led to a Steve Mazzagatti intervention just 25
seconds into the fight. And her skills, well those talents remind him of
a certain 145-pound female wrecking machine.