UFC 193 Bonus Winners

When the UFC announced Holly Holm as the next opponent for Ronda Rousey, many questioned whether the former boxing champion was ready for such a stiff challenge in mixed martial arts.

Not even Ronda Rousey.

Holm fell with Rousey to deliver a flurry of finishing hammer punches to the face, but by then she was beating on an already unconscious Rousey.

Rousey collapsed to the mat unconscious with referee Herb Dean rushing in to call the fight as Holm followed with ground-and-pound. “So I expected her to be aggressive and impose her will on me”.

“I don’t know, I’m trying to take it all in”.

Rousey (12-0) puts her UFC women’s bantamweight strap up for grabs for the seventh time tonight when she takes on a fellow unbeaten in Holm (9-0). She had a killer résumé as a championship amateur kickboxer and professional boxer.

“I just wanted to get in her face and show her that I was there for a reason”, an incensed Rousey told UFC’s Joe Rogan, according to the Fox Sports report.

“She’s completely bummed out and depressed, but that’s it”. “I think a rematch is an unspoken common sense to me”. And therefore she wants people to miss her for a while. Joanna retained her Women’s Straw weight championship with the win.

In the seconds before the KO, she went to knee before getting caught flush with the head kick as she rose. Holm, who closed as high as an 8-to-1 underdog, stunned the sports world Saturday night in Melbourne, Australia, at UFC 193.

“Obviously, she’s completey bummed out and depressed but that’s it”, UFC president Dana White said about his post-fight conversation with Rousey. If she is looking to make a point against Holm, she opens herself up to an upset.

“They’re the scariest moments”. That’s why I go through thousands of different ways that the fight could go down in my mind. I haven’t spent this much time in the gym in my life.

“It’s a lot to take in, but those kinds of fights are the ones where a loss is devastating but a win is that sweet of a victory”. Only one of them going past the first round.

“At the end of the day I made this fight”. For me it’s better to embrace the role of the heel and chase after being disliked. “Holly was the right fight”.

Is there a possibility that Ronda Rousey’s next fight will be in the boxing ring? I have all the respect for her in the world.

In other contests, Mark Hunt (11-10-1) settled the score with Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva (19-8-1) by thwarting his Brazilian rival in their heavyweight rematch.