People always seem to forget what an excellent striker she is. Watching her destroy Kaitlin Young should keep people from believing the hype about her opponents at least through this next event. Seriously, that was an Anderson Silva style beatdown. (In intensity, not comparing skills)

Maybe he was referring to the commenters who come out every time Gina fights and talk about how much they’d like to see somebody beat her. For example, in this thread alone:

You go girl" or "Kick her ass Seabass" One or the other.

This is a fantastic quote. While I respect Carano’s skills, I just can’t bring myself to like her, and the idea of her shit getting fucked up (I’m not even sure what that means, but it sounds painful) just gives me giddy glee.

I’m an official Kelly Kobold-Gavin fan now.

I could be wrong — don’t know Tommy at all — but I don’t think he was referring to anything Kelly said as “hating” but was more referring to the fans who want to see her lose as hating. Like I said, I could be way off base, though.

I was more speaking about the general public then Kelly specifically. Yet she does seem to be focusing on the wrong thing to me. Forget coming out of the fight prettier and come out the winner.

People aren’t amazed at an ugly chick kicking ass, but they are when it is a hot chick.

I’m just speaking for myself, but there is a legitimate reason for this phenomenon.

Hot women can easily just cruise by on their good looks, especially in the USA where they pull a five-year-plan and are set for life at some (usually not literally) poor guy’s expense. It’s almost like the default factory setting, if you will. It’s what we see time and again.

When a woman like Gina (who is NOT mega-attractive, but she IS attractive and feminine, believe it or not) steps into something like MMA, or American Gladiators, it makes me respect her so much more than a ‘fugly’ woman because I know that she doesn’t HAVE to do this. There’s no real automatic motivation, it’s not like she’s dog-looking with a man’s body, and it makes perfect sense. She’s got porn-star looks all-around, and she decided to train and compete in one of the most physically demanding sports in the world.

When she is literally turning her back on simply trading on her looks (actually, directly placing said looks in harm’s way) in order to display her martial acumen, it gains my respect.

And I’m not what you’d call a Gina Carano fan. Haven’t ever seen her fight live.

I mean, how many of CBS’ viewers gave a damn about MMA fighters before being spoon-fed Kimbo Slice in prime-time? Now they’ve got their ‘star,’ and I’m sure all kinds of water-cooler debate goes on about the guy after his fights air. It’s the nature of any type of entertainment medium.

Take actors in Hollywood, for instance. Everyone knows who Matt Damon is, or Brad Pitt, but not too many people are really familiar with a guy like Philip Seymour Hoffman until he has his own ‘breakout’ mainstream role. Guys like him can be putting up astonishing performances, better even than the main star of a movie, for a decade or more before they get recognition. But while they may rock in their roles during that time, people still only care to talk about Matt Damon or Brad Pitt.

Difference in MMA, or any combat sport, is the fighters can literally take a portion of their opponent’s reputation during a fight. They don’t even have to win in order to accomplish this, but winning certainly helps. But only so much reputation can be exchanged during one fight, since marketing campaigns instill a certain amount of appeal that can’t be transferred. A fighter like Carano fits this description perfectly. Beating her will certainly help ANY fighter’s reputation, but she’ll maintain a lot of her credibility simply because of the extra marketing efforts that have gone into making her on-screen persona.

We as men may not think so but my wife has friends that swear they are.

Then she would have taken it herself.. in a bathroom.. wearing a Fallout Boy shirt.