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Laila Ali Predicts Holm-Rousey II Will Be The Same Or Worse As Their First Fight For Rousey

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Former UFC title contender Chael Sonnen recently interviewed former women’s boxing mega-star and the daughter of “The Greatest Of All-Time” Muhammad Ali — Laila Ali — for a new episode of “Beyond The Fight” this week. The former undefeated women’s boxing champion got the attention of the MMA world by making a bold prediction for a potential Holly Holm vs. Ronda Rousey rematch.

Ali spoke to “The American Gangster” about her own personal history with Holm before ultimately explaining why she feels Holm will look as good or better if she retains her title against Miesha Tate at UFC 196 and fights Rousey in a rematch in November, which is what UFC President Dana White stated was the plan during an interview on Wednesday.

According to Laila, the big reasons why Rousey was picked apart and ultimately knocked out inside of two rounds was due to a few factors, including what Ali alluded to being a false sense of confidence on Rousey’s part in her belief that she was the best fighter in the world, a lack of respect for Holm’s striking ability in particular, and an extreme lack of head movement during standup exchanges.

“I personally do not think that she’ll beat Holly Holm [in a rematch],” said Ali during the interview with Chael Sonnen, which you can listen to via the video player embedded above. “I think that if she fought her again, then the same thing and worse will happen. Holly Holm was just getting warmed up. You know what I’m saying? She was just getting warmed up. She had nerves, too. This was her big moment.”

Ali continued, explaining how she could tell almost immediately that Rousey wasn’t going to beat Holm in their first meeting at UFC 193 last November, despite the fact that Holm was one of the biggest betting underdogs in MMA history going into the Octagon at Etihad Stadium in Melbourne, Australia.

“I noticed right away when the fight started, I was like, ‘She doesn’t have any head movement,'” Ali said. “She came straight in and she got busted in the face so many times where she had a bloody nose.

“I saw that the girl she fought wasn’t really a challenge for her, but I was able to see her mistakes. Not moving your head is a big mistake when you’re getting into the ring with someone who has a boxing background.”

Additionally, Ali echoed post-fight sentiments shared by many fans, as well as many people who are personally involved in the sport of MMA in regards to Ronda Rousey not being as good as people thought, but rather a product of the UFC’s excellent promoting abilities mixed with a weak level of opposition in Women’s MMA.

“People hype fighters up, but at the end of the day, what did Ronda Rousey have? 12 fights, something like that,” Ali said. “And they’re calling her the best fighter ever, and I see that she truly believes that about herself.

“You’re only as good as the opposition you face. There were some girls out there I never had the opportunity to face. But I saw Ronda Rousey kind of act like she really does believe that she’s the best female fighter in the world. I was thinking, wow, she hasn’t even faced some of the other girls that are considered to be the best.”

Quote: Holly Holm vs. Ronda Rousey 2 Would Be Biggest Fight In UFC History

UFC President Dana White is a promoter at heart, and he did his job on Wednesday during a recent interview. According to White, a rematch between UFC women’s bantamweight champion Holly Holm and Ronda Rousey would be the biggest fight in UFC history. “If Holly Holm were to win (at UFC 196), the Holly-Ronda rematch is

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“If Holly Holm were to win (at UFC 196), the Holly-Ronda rematch is the biggest fight ever in UFC history, if that rematch happens,” White said in an interview on ESPN’s “Jalen & Jacoby Today” podcast.

That rematch is still up in the air because Holm has a tough test when she fights Miesha Tate at UFC 196 in her first title defense.

White broke down the fight between Rousey and Holm and talked about how stylistically Holm is a tough fight for Rousey.

“Stylistically this is a very, very tough fight because you know how styles make fights,” White said. “Ronda went in with Holly Holm and tried to box with a boxer, whereas Ronda’s game should have been going in there and using her judo. Well, Miesha Tate will go for low singles, double legs. She will try to wrestle Holly Holm. She’s durable, she’s got a great chin and stylistically this is a very tough matchup.”

“Holly doesn’t get overlooked at all,” White said. “She beat the unbeatable. She went in and pushed the impossible. Believe me, she is receiving all the accolades and the financial rewards that go along with a huge accomplishment like that.”

Rousey has gone on record by saying that she would be back fighting again, but not until later this year. It’s expected that once Rousey is ready to fight and if Holm is still champion after UFC 196 then the UFC will book the fight.

Who do you think will win this fight? Let us know.

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Ronda Rousey “Probably” Returning In November

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It sounds like former UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion Ronda Rousey will be returning towards the end of the year. While Rousey is working on the remake of Roadhouse, Holly Holm will fight Meisha Tate at …

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It sounds like former UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion Ronda Rousey will be returning towards the end of the year. While Rousey is working on the remake of Roadhouse, Holly Holm will fight Meisha Tate at UFC 196 and the winner will take Rousey.

“The winner of that fight will fight Ronda probably in November,” White revealed on “The Neighborhood” with Big Boy on Wednesday. “[Rousey] is very intense. She’s a bad ass. She’ll be back.”

Rousey has yet to personally confirm a November return. If Holm is victorious at UFC 196, her rematch with Ronda Rousey will likely be one of the biggest rematches in the UFC.

Internet Troll Pretends To Be Ronda Rousey’s Coach, Gets Published On TMZ

Ronda Rousey’s coach reacts to some of ‘Rowdy’s’ Mom’s criticism over his style of teaching, but it’s not actually him… OK, we’ve all made mistakes in the past, but it seems that swelling Ronda Rousey’s ego by telling her she is a great boxer is a doozy. That is, according to the former UFC women’s

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Ronda Rousey’s coach reacts to some of ‘Rowdy’s’ Mom’s criticism over his style of teaching, but it’s not actually him…

OK, we’ve all made mistakes in the past, but it seems that swelling Ronda Rousey’s ego by telling her she is a great boxer is a doozy. That is, according to the former UFC women’s bantamweight champion’s mother. She recently blasted Edmond Tarverdyan, Rousey’s long time coach, as an ego-maniacal fraud and an idiot. It’s not the first time Dr. AnnMaria De Mars (Rousey’s Mom) has put the screws to Edmond’s reputation.

Before UFC 193, Rousey’s Mother famously said she hated Tarverdyan, that he was sponging off Rousey’s natural talent and that she hoped he was run over and killed by a car. That’s some pretty intense crioticism, and it looked as though she may have been right as ‘Rowdy’ got outclassed and destroyed by Holly Holm at UFC 193.

In response to the critics after Rousey’s UFC 193 performance, Tarverdyan said he would not bring in a boxing coach to sharpen Rousey’s striking game, and also that he felt Rousey was ‘just caught,’ rather than completely dominated by ‘The Preacher’s Daughter.’

Now, in a rather hilarious twist to the ongoing plot, UFC associated ‘news’ site TMZ published an interview with one ‘Edmund Tarverdyan’ (notice the spelling error) where he reacts to Rousey’s Mom’s latest rant. Saying the following:

“It’s just her opinion. I’m just here to train Ronda and it really doesn’t matter. Ronda knows who I am. I am her trainer and that’s really about it.”

It’s a shame he didn’t go full balls to the wall, but he has made a point of gloating about his new found fame on the parody twitter account for Edmond:

@FrontRowBrian pic.twitter.com/0Bnrm5KNOW

— Edmund Tarverdyan (@EddieTarverdyan) February 2, 2016

As said, we’ve all made mistakes in the past, but that doesn’t mean we can’t all have a laugh at this latest blooper.

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Ronda Rousey’s Coach Makes Excuse For UFC 193 Loss

Following Ronda Rousey losing her UFC bantamweight title to Holly Holm at UFC 193 in devastating fashion, there were many who called for Rousey’s longtime trainer Edmond Tarverdyan to be fired for bad advice between rounds of her fight with Holm. In the fight, fans could hear Tarverdyan giving Rousey bad advice and saying that

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Tarverdyan recently did an interview with ESPN and explained that he doesn’t see Rousey fighting at UFC 200 in July against Holm.

“I don’t see it in July at this point,” Tarverdyan said. “Ronda did three fights last year. I think she deserves time off. That’s what [UFC president] Dana [White] said, too. So we’ve spoke about that. You know Dana judges things very fairly, and he completely understood.”

“If you watch her career, she was fighting back-to-back,” he said. “Even her amateur fights, she took a lot of fights back-to-back. Of course, she got [quick] finishes, but it’s not only about the ring time, it’s about the training. She’s trained very hard to give it 100 percent every day, so you know, that’s hard for the body. Ronda has been through a lot. She’s had knee surgeries … and we don’t want to end up with the same thing, having another knee surgery, so we need to relax a little bit, take our time and get her in better shape slowly and mentally and physically.”

Tarverdyan explained that this was his biggest loss of his career and plans to work harder so when Rousey is set to return, he’ll be ready.

“It was the biggest loss of my career,” he said. “You know you won’t ever want that to happen again. So what that means is, I’ve got to work harder. Every little thing I’ve got to be honest with and make sure that we’re ready to go.

Tarverdyan then addressed the criticism that he has received about UFC 193. According to Tarverdyan, he believes that Rousey got caught in the fight, but doesn’t plan to make significant changes to Rousey’s game or bring in new trainers.

“Yeah there was a lot of criticism afterwards about adding a boxing coach. MMA is not a boxing game, but Ronda got caught, and we will be taking advice from boxing trainers. I don’t think it’s going to be a situation about adding a boxing coach, it’s about getting more thoughts from boxing trainers.

“I will be speaking to them and getting in the best advice. And if I feel it’s necessary we will bring them in. But besides boxing, even the wrestling, the judo, the grappling aspect of it — just approaching the fight, in general, there will be a bit of things that we could add.

“We’re not going to sit here and change everything that we’ve done, we’ve done stuff that I think is working, it’s been great. We’re not going to have something so much different for Ronda. Have we been doing everything wrong? No, that’s not the situation. It’s a fight, Ronda got caught with a shot, and it was a little bit of a roller coaster from there.”

Holm will be fighting Miesha Tate in the co-main event of UFC 196 in her first women’s bantamweight title defense.

It’s expected that Rousey will return to the world famous Octagon later this year to fight the winner of that UFC 196 title fight.

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Ronda Rousey’s Coach: “Have We Been Doing Everything Wrong? No.”

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Coming out of Ronda Rousey’s devastating loss to Holly Holm at UFC 193 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, a lot of criticism has been heaped upon her head coach. Edmond Tarverdyan. Going into the fight, there was already a lot of questioning of his coaching acumen, thanks in large part to a series of videos where Rousey’s mother (former world champion judoka AnnMaria De Mars) ripped Tarverdyan, and it only got worse. Rousey appeared to be completely ill-equipped to fight someone who could outstrike her, much less one big and strong enough to not get bullied in the cage. Worse, after Holm lit up Rousey for almost the entirety of the first round, Tarverdyan showered her with praise in the corner about how great she was doing.

Tarverdyan has finally spoken out about the criticism in an interview with ESPN. He told Brett Okamoto that”It was the biggest loss of my career. You know you won’t ever want that to happen again. So what that means is, I’ve got to work harder. Every little thing I’ve got to be honest with and make sure that we’re ready to go.” That last sentence is interesting in light of him being under investigation for tax evasion and recently having his second’s license suspended in California for lying on his application.

Then the interview gets a bit weird:

Yeah, there was a lot of criticism afterwards about adding a boxing coach. MMA is not a boxing game, but Ronda got caught, and we will be taking advice from boxing trainers. I don’t think it’s going to be a situation about adding a boxing coach, it’s about getting more thoughts from boxing trainers. I will be speaking to them and getting in the best advice. And if I feel it’s necessary we will bring them in. But besides boxing, even the wrestling, the judo, the grappling aspect of it — just approaching the fight in general, there will be a bit of things that we could add. We’re not going to sit here and change everything that we’ve done, we’ve done stuff that I think is working, it’s been great. We’re not going to have something so much different for Ronda. Have we been doing everything wrong? No, that’s not the situation. It’s a fight, Ronda got caught with a shot, and it was a little bit of a roller coaster from there.

The first thing that jumps out is that Tarverdyan IS a boxing coach who purportedly trained Vic Darchinyan at one point. This SHOULD be his wheelhouse. So why is he now saying that boxing coaches are the people who he should consult? Combine that with how h’s mostly speaking in generalities, and it reads like he’s obfuscating. He also claims that “A lot of people might think Ronda didn’t move her head when she was moving forward and she got popped with a shot. Ronda does know how to move her head. Ronda moved her head and avoided a lot of short, stocky straight shots, and she got into a beautiful clinch.” If you’ve seen the fight, then you remember that Holm’s left straight was the punch that Rousey had the most trouble with.

It’s worth reading the whole article and watching the video on the ESPN site. He talks about how Rousey has made adjustments after fights in the past, like trying to avoid giving up her back after Liz Carmouche got her in a face crank.

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Then the interview gets a bit weird:

Yeah, there was a lot of criticism afterwards about adding a boxing coach. MMA is not a boxing game, but Ronda got caught, and we will be taking advice from boxing trainers. I don’t think it’s going to be a situation about adding a boxing coach, it’s about getting more thoughts from boxing trainers. I will be speaking to them and getting in the best advice. And if I feel it’s necessary we will bring them in. But besides boxing, even the wrestling, the judo, the grappling aspect of it — just approaching the fight in general, there will be a bit of things that we could add. We’re not going to sit here and change everything that we’ve done, we’ve done stuff that I think is working, it’s been great. We’re not going to have something so much different for Ronda. Have we been doing everything wrong? No, that’s not the situation. It’s a fight, Ronda got caught with a shot, and it was a little bit of a roller coaster from there.