Posted on 11/15/2015 10:16:56 AM PST by MarvinStinson
A culture that regards women fighting as entertainment is headed down the last circle of the toilet.
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As far as the fight went, Rousey looked like someone brought in straight off the the street who did not have a clue what to do.
Rouseys million dollar trainers, with their ridiculous punching mitts, are completely incompetent.
In boxing a fighter with a normal stance has the left leg and the left arm forward. The forward left arm is used to jab and sometimes to hook, a heavier punch. But the straight right hand is the basic heavier punch for a normal stance fighter.
Everything is reversed for a southpaw fighter who has the right foot and right hand in front and uses the right hand to jab and whose heaviest punch is a straight left hand.
The first rule for a normal stance fighter fighting a southpaw, who has right foot and hand in front, is never throw a right hand to the body from long range, because you would be leaving your head wide open to your southpaw opponents heaviest punch, his straight left hand, which he is poised and waiting to throw.
Rouseys so-called trainers did not even tell her she was fighting a southpaw.
They did not even tell her to watch her opponents left hand.
Clueless Rousey stepped directly into her southpaw opponents heaviest punch, her straight left hand. repeatedly.
It was not a jab, but the heaviest punch her opponent could throw. It landed repeatedly on Rouseys mouth and chin.
If this million dollar crap had been a gym workout, any experienced trainer would have stopped it after one or two such punches and explained to Rousey what is involved in fighting a southpaw. And that she had a lot of work to do before she would be ready to take on an experienced southpaw.
Of course they would not have put her in the ring with an experienced southpaw to start with until they educated her on what was involved.
Not one blowhard commentator mentioned the above, which would be obvious at a glance to anyone competent in the subject.
Rousey was badly winded before the first round was over. Yet she trains?
Rousey was knocked out by a kick to the neck, not the head.
Rousey had just slipped down with her back to her opponent after getting hit on the chin with yet another straight left hand.
Her opponent put her hand on Rouseys lower back and turned her around, helping as Rousey straightened up and turned to face her.
The opponent put her right arm on Rouseys shoulder to hold her in place as she (the opponent) lifted her left leg high with the knee bent so that the heel of her foot was touching her own bottom. Then from that position she snapped her leg open from the knee, landing with her shin on the side of Rouseys neck. Rousey was knocked out and fell hard, with the side of her head bouncing hard off the canvas.
Rousey looked very bad once she was up minutes later, with her head hanging forward, her eyes at the floor and all the muscles of her face collapsed, drooping downward.
Experienced boxing people, there are none left, would call this a mismatch that should never have taken place.
Once again, a society that regards the repulsive spectacle of women fighting as entertaining is headed down the tubes.
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PS In 1922 RING magazine founder Nat Fleischer wrote
As for women boxing, blows to the breast cause breast cancer. SUBJECT CLOSED.
The purpose of the sport was to get to finish line fastest - not to maim or kill.
This took place in an age when most people had pretty dangerous jobs.
You got that right.
Contests for training of warriors is one thing. Contests put on to feed the blood lust of spectators is something else.
The Romans had female gladiators.
Never mind the act of slaying said unborn babies to begin with, primarily for the purpose of encouraging illicit sex. Two women voluntarily fighting in a mixed arts tournament is positively civilized in light of all of that.
I have an ironing shirts story.
About 55 years ago,when I was a bride,I commented to my husband that a certain shirt was easy to iron.
About 2 weeks later he came home and said he had a surprise for me. Needless to say I was delighted.
It was 2 new shirts FOR HIM-—the easy to iron ones. He really thought I’d be pleased.
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The Rousey-Holm bout was exemplary of neither. Holm was not required to kill Rousey upon winning.
Women are not for fighting. I am not averse to teaching women some martial arts for self defense purposes but women fighting to entertain is decadent as hell. It is very PC and communist, though. When women fight men in the ring it will be complete. Humans are nought but interchangeable cogs in Utopia.
It’s Cock Fighting with Humans.
I don’t get it. What “woman” in their right mind would do this? Not a lady, in my opinion.
There’s overlap between women boxers and international pornography...
It was the purpose and setting of the fight to which I was referring.
and of course, Man is fallen. Plenty of encouragement to crawl down into the gutter.
You don't understand the "Sweet Science" or any contact sport. Combat is bred into our DNA just as much as it is in nature. Contact sports just channel these biological needs into a more controlled, safe venue.
I think Suetonius learned a certain lesson the hard way, against Boadicea. He may have gotten Rome to rally against her, but the damage to that empire was most evident.
The purpose of the sport was to get to finish line fastest - not to maim or kill.
Maiming or killing the other drivers and their animals was a good way of getting to the finish line the fastest.
Sorry but the gentle sport of chariot racing was every bit as much a brutal blood sport as the rest of the games.
I'm not sure if men's contact/combat sports are necessarily right either, except that men are naturally meant to be fighters (in order to protect their women), and things like boxing provide both an outlet and training towards that end. It should certainly be held to a point withing reason to prevent, as much as possible, people being severely injured.
What, you mean you weren't?
Joking aside, that sounds laughably thoughtless on his part.
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