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Amusing Hypothetical Scenario just for fun!

posted 8 years ago by Perfect-Prosecutor
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In 2015 and Ronda Rousey has just lost to Holly Holm. Rather than mope around about it like she did in real life, she fires her crappy head coach and instead decides to take Floyd Mayweather up on his offer to help her improve her standup game.

http://www.foxsports.com/ufc/story/ufc-floyd-mayweather-ronda-rousey-help-her-with-boxing-jon-jones-daniel-cormier-111715

Being the egomaniac that Floyd is, he readily keeps to his word and takes Ronda under his wing. For the next year, everything proceeds as it did in real life. Holm loses to Tate, Tate loses to Nunes and UFC 207 is set for Rousey vs Nunes being the main event. Except Mayweather and Dana White aare promoting the hell out of it.

It's the night of the fight and Ronda enters the ring Rocky 3 style. With a year of first hand training from TBE himself, how does the fight play out round by round?

[–] dlancer 8 years ago

The problem is, if Floyd trained Ronda for two years straight, she still won't be up there with Amanda, Holly or Valentina. Turning Ronda into a championship level striker would be about as difficult as turning Serena Williams into the same thing. Ronda's talent just isn't in her hands.

Now, I agree Tarverdyan doesn't cut it, but put Ronda in a camp like AKA and you'll see her foot positioning and takedowns improve by leaps and bounds. One year's worth over there would do more for her than five years under Floyd.

Now if you want to stick Ronda in a ring with boxing gloves against a seasoned opponent, then okay, Floyd's her guy.

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[–] BettOnThat 8 years ago

Under normal circumstances, I would agree that you shouldn't go strictly with a boxing trainer for MMA. But in this scenario, we're talking about a fighter in Nunez that would expect zero head movement, flat feet and the ugliest punches inside the octagon. Training with a world class boxer and his team for a year straight, no interruptions with however many months Ronda had to specifically train for Nunez would give her a legitimate edge. She still wouldn't be at the level as the best strikers in her division but her sudden improvement, and it would be significant, might be too much for Nunez.

[–] TitoVicandJoey 8 years ago

Rouseys shinee just blinded ppl so much they cant really place how good Nunez really was/is. Nunez was tearing through the competition till she lost to Cat. Cat and Nunez were the biggest threat to Rousey cuz they had legitimate KO power in the division. Instead of lineing them up for title shots McMann and Davis got to fight Ronda for the title. Both Nunez and Cat could have easily demolished both McMann and Davis but instead they were made to fight for the #1 contenders spot. Cat won after her long road back from injury and personal tragedy but lost in that 14 sec scuffle with Ronda for the title. Nunez already had the power to drop Ronda at that time. missing her first title shot only made room for her to improve and work on her weaker spots.
A year straight working with Mayweather, in the time frame she took off, would not have helped Ronda. What would have helped her would have been Greg Jackson devising a plan to defeat Nunez with her strong points and Nunez weak points. Although dumping her coach for Mayweather maybe would have improved her chances of winning it wouldn't have been enough to stand up against Nunez and Mayweather wouldn't know how to tap into Ronda natural abilities in judo. Believe me, Nunez would have wanted to go to the ground with Ronda and prove her self but she didn't have to. Maybe as a secondary coach for Ronda would have improved her boxing skills but Mayweather would not have been able to train Ronda to defeat Nunez.

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[–] BettOnThat 8 years ago

Nunes wasn't tearing through the division, she was 2-1 following the zigano fight and lost 2 of her last three prior to being picked up by UFC. Amanda was always thought of as a prospect, and I remember her crushing Julia Budd in strikeforce and losing her very next fight to Alexis Davis. While it had been a few years since their match up it didn't make sense to pair them up again or hold off on Davis who at least was on a more impressive run at the time.

[–] dlancer 8 years ago

Amanda turned a corner after her loss to Zingano. She was written off against McMann, but we saw how she put the work in and dominated. Every fight since then, she's been putting in the work. She got real hungry for it, and now she's a monster because of it. Ronda is obviously not as hungry, but that's usually how it goes. One talented fighter becomes more hungry than the champ and ends up being the new dominance among a newer breed of challengers.

Also, it's only been a couple of years since top camps were heavily focusing on women. Ronda's ace up her sleeve was her early training from her mother's Olympic level training. A few years ago, if a women's fight didn't involve Cyborg or Ronda, it was pretty much a 50/50 pick.

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[–] liverpool26 8 years ago

I don't think it would make much difference, Rousey was gone mentally. I'm sure Rousey has experienced losses in her judo career but she wasn't just defeated by holm she was beat unconscious, I think she was scared of being hurt.