All this talk about her being egotistical yet I've only ever seen other people praise her. Even if she is egotistical, so what? She has every right to be seeing how shes earned all the praise she gets.
Poll: Is anybody else glad Ronda Rousey lost?
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I think people draw a pretty distinct line between being egotistical, even arrogant, and just straight up being a jerk and having zero sportmanship, and Rousey crossed that line a while ago. Not touching gloves, talking trash, disrespecting her opponents, starting weird feuds (at some point she randomly started this whole feud with ring girl Arianny Celeste, who I don't think had ever even talked to her before), and just generally coming across as borderline childish.lord canti said:
You should totally compete, you'd make a ton of money.ecoho said:
I'm glad, but for her sake. Absolutely dominating people like she had been gets really old after awhile. If there isn't a sense of a challenge in the fighting, people will stop caring. At least now she can paint her loss as being crippled by arrogance and make a tidy little redemption story out of it.
The problem is that the bone density and bone structure debates are generally made by people whose knowledge of anatomy would make a high schooler scoff. When it comes to grappling, women actually have an advantage of a bone structure that's meant to be more stable, but the differences are mostly marginal. Bone density is pretty much an average thing that also has rather marginal effects. The one point Rousey could have made in this debate is muscles, but as most trans women know, FTM hormone replacement therapy obliterates muscle faster than starvation. So it's purely the stereotypical transphobic bullshit line of; "that's really a man!", being used here, nothing more. The bone density, structure, along with muscle structure, and density argument is said to be why males can't ever dance on pointe. Well I'm trans and I learned to dance on pointe so... Yeah. Those arguments mean less than nothing to me.Redryhno said:
OT: With the Fallon Fox comments, backing up open transphobia in sports she's done, plus her just unsportsmanlike and horrible behavior. I'm glad she got knocked out by someone competent. Because really her career has been championed, but it's really just a nasty smear on the sport. Some people defend her behavior as the spectacle of the show, no, even the biggest trash talkers and villains in the sport treat their opponents as badly as her. Really she's been given a cake walk for her career from what I've seen, now she gets a real opponent and loses, good, that undefeated record was basically a lie as far as I can tell.
Just for clarity: I don't watch ultimate fighting, or any other MMA, but what got me looking at Rousey was her statements that someone else showed me. I just don't like anything about her, seems to have no redeeming qualities as far as I can tell.
I'm glad she got served a dose of humble pie. She's a phenomenal athlete and has done a great deal for womens mma, but as a person she is just awful. I watched the ultimate fighter which she coached and she came across as an overly emotional asshole with some real mental problems.
Perhaps she'll do a GSP and come back more respectful of her opponents, at the least she'll have to fire the guy in her corner who told her it was going great after the first round, and to stay standing. The guy's a moron.
Perhaps she'll do a GSP and come back more respectful of her opponents, at the least she'll have to fire the guy in her corner who told her it was going great after the first round, and to stay standing. The guy's a moron.
This is the first I've heard of this, but from what you've said, I get the impression that I'd also be glad she lost if I'd been following the current events. I never root for people with poor sportsmanship in any event.