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.
Humanity has not changed. Culture changes and there are many cultures around the globe, some good and some bad. I believe in universal values and objective truth,
As for the rest of what you wrote, I have no idea what you're talking about, as I have said nothing in this thread about laws or rights.
I suspected that to be the case given what you have written, i.e., you have no idea what I am talking about. Anyone who chooses the name Trailerpark Badass isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer.
Lol, from someone quoting Ayn Rand...as I said, enjoy your sports.
So masculinity in your world consists of drooling over two women beating the snot out of each other?
“The Olympics are now completely politically correct.”
Tolerance of PC is cowardice, and cowardice, left unchecked, will destroy Western civilization.
My masculinity is not threatened by women who want to work in the entertainment field and earn lots of money. They compete in the marketplace. If they have sufficient skill levels in the field of UFC, more power to them. The Rousey-Holm headlined the fight card that included both men and women fights. It set all kinds of records in Melbourne. It was a roaring commercial success.
I haven’t disputed any of those points, nor have I speciously linked this spectacle to a question of masculinity. I have no doubt the “games” in the Colliseum were roaring commercial successes too. But I believe Rome was in its decadent phase at that point. And maybe there’s a parallel to our own culture ... or lack thereof.
All over the country, millions are just now starting to watch men batter there brains into neurological defict for entertainment.
i guess you missed seeing all the armor worn by those same men, to attempt to minimize the occurrence of neurological ‘deficts’...
Lol.
IronJack wrote
I have no doubt the games in the Colliseum were roaring commercial successes too.
But I believe Rome was in its decadent phase at that point.
And maybe theres a parallel to our own culture ... or lack thereof.
Eerie.
Maybe the next time around, they could feed the loser to wild animals. You know, see them torn to pieces by lions or tigers? Wouldn’t that be cool?
Lots of pockets got filled with money last week. This won’t go away anytime soon.
of course, if thousands of people were willing to spend the money to see it...
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