Mike Tyson Has Some Advice For Ronda Rousey After KO Loss

“Ronda, I feel an immediate bond with you”, Beck Bennett says at one point, putting his arm around her in the kind of cheesy, unwelcome advance nearly every woman knows.

Mike Tyson’s 1990 upset loss to Buster Douglas shares some parallels to Ronda Rousey’s stunning defeat at the hands (well, uh, leg) of Holly Holm. “If she wants to stay in movies – great”, Holm said at a press conference at the MGM Grand.

“I think if the rematch would’ve been a sure thing that was going to come sooner than later, that’s what was going to happen”, Holm said (via MMA Junkie).

Holm and Tate will come together inside the Octagon at UFC 197 on March 5 on the same card as Conor McGregor, in what is expected to be one of the biggest pay-per-view takings in UFC history.

As for Ronda not competing for UFC 197 and on upcoming UFC matches, many are speculating that Rousey might be retiring from mix martial arts. “She has to understand – we’re in the hurt business”, he told Conan O’Brien, when asked how he’d advise Ronda. While Holm’s team requested a matchup with Tate in the interim, UFC President Dana White quickly shot down the idea. “I don’t want to watch a fighter doing it that’s not passionate about it”.

Holm says she went through a similar scenario during her boxing career whenever the name Laila Ali was brought up to her.

“So if Ronda wants to fight, awesome”. “In my boxing career, Laila Ali ended short of what a lot of people thought. I think that she should stick around and prove this and prove that.’ Well, if she doesn’t want to fight, I don’t want to watch her fight”, Holm said.