Ronda Rousey Sounds Off On Everything From The Olympics, To Cristiane Santos, To Ring Card Girls
by David Castillo on Feb 1, 2012 3:00 PM EST
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It's rare in sports, but every now and then sports fans get to encounter something completely unique: athletes with opinions they're happy to share, and possessing the type of wit you might not expect out of someone that spends most of their time in the gym.
Ronda Rousey is becoming a poster girl not just for women's MMA, but for an athlete ‘raw and uncensored'. She's defiantly not afraid to say what's on her mind, but unlike Chael Sonnen, we're not observing theatre. We're observing humanity: anger, humor, joy, grit, and Pokemon make up Rousey's stream of consciousness.
This past Sunday, Jeff Sherwood (along with Scott Holmes) had a chance to interview Rousey at the LA Fitness Expo. It was a candid interview even by Rousey's standards.
The interview started out innocuous enough until Sherwood asked her about her favorite 145 lb champion, Cristiane Santos (on whether or not Cyborg was good or bad for female MMA):
"She was a detriment to women's MMA. No little girl is going to watch cris cyborg fight and want to be like her one day. I don't think it's a good example. I think it was obvious all along that she was doping, and I think it sends a bad message to kids that you need to dope in order to be achampion. I think it's better with her gone."
While her logic might not be questionable, the "if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck" line of thinking was nonetheless validated in the wake of Cyborg's positive test. Incapable of ruffling the feathers of just the disgraced ex-champ, Rousey didn't stop there, taking a thinly veiled shot at Miesha Tate...
"There's a reason why the Olympics is every four years. It's because if they had it every year, they would go bankrupt. The Olympics is the epitome of sport and that's where it's all just about the sport. But with professional sports it's about entertainment. It's about making money. The core of everything is still about the sport, but that's not everything it's about. It's hilarious when these girls are ‘you talked yourself into a title shot!' What you're really saying in a mean way is that I'm smarter than all of you, and I actually have an understanding of how this works and used it to my advantage. "
...nor did Rousey avoid leaving the ring-card-girl-stone unturned...
"There's a reason why the ring girls aren't asked to star in movies, and it's because they're pretty but talentless."
For context, Rousey was responding to a question about Gina Carano, who Rousey has the utmost respect for, and who she attributes some of her success to. However, Ronda's most scathing attack was directed at the Olympics.
Everyone talks about how awesome the Olympics are, but you know what? After the Olympics they give you ten grand a handshake. And you know what, it costs way more than ten grand to get there. The Olympics didn't give a damn about me after I was done. And I gotta do what I gotta do to make a living. If I gotta pose for some magazines...I'm not gonna show my nipples or asshole or anything like that but if I gotta walk around at the beach in a bikini, why not let someone take a picture of me and put it in a magazine?
...
All these companies make millions and millions of dollars to put the Olympic rings as like a logo. I walked into 24 hour fitness the other day. They're a multi-million dollar sponsor of the Olympic games. And they have all these Olympic rings all over the place. They know I'm an Olympic medalist. They know I'm an Olympian. They will not let me in there without paying. I have to pay to go into 24 hour fitness. I have to buy every single Gatorade bottle. That money does not go to the athletes. That money goes into a lot of really corrupt national governing bodies that bounce that money around, they give it to all their friends, and almost none of that money makes it to the athletes. USA Judo is the most corrupt organizations ever, and they hated me because I was not afraid to say it, and they always gave me as little funding as possible.
At the 2007 worlds they sent more officials and more people from their organization, and then they made most of the athletes pay for themselves to go. They only sponsorerd three athletes to go, and they sent like eleven different people. And I remember at the Pan Am games, or Pan-Am champsionships in wherever we were at, a bunch of the athletes had to pay for themselves to go and then they flew some PR girl at the last minute. Thousands of dollars just to show up and hang around. And they're sending all their people first class, and they're spending all this, you look at their budget and they're spending thousands of dollars on entertainment for each other. All the people that work for this organization are sitting in these amazing hotels, and the athletes, I'm sitting in a hut. A chalet in the middle of Belgium.
All that money and none of it goes to the athletes, and the second that you're done fighting they just give you a kick in the ass out the door. There's nothing set in place to help the athletes after they're done. What are you doing while you're training your whole life? You're not getting as much education as you could. You're not getting as much work experience as you could. And so what happens after the Olympics Is that you have all these athletes that have no work experience, no education, and they have no health. And it's all bullshit.
And that's why I'm like screw everyone's idea of 'oh what sports are supposed to be like'. I did what sports were supposed to be like, and I was living in my car. So you know what, fine. I'm gonna talk a bunch of shit. I'm gonna pose in a couple of pictures. And I'm gonna break a couple of girl's arms, and I'm not gonna feel the least bit sorry about it because you know what? At least I can feed my dog.
It's an extensive interview, but I suggest you listen to the whole thing here. The interview begins at the one hour, and 55 minute mark. Sherwood would later describe Rousey's teary-eyed frustration during the rant.
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She sure does talk a lot.
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by Earl Montclair on Feb 1, 2012 3:02 PM EST reply actions 7 recs
It's as if
your statement is missing a qualifier. :)
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by David Castillo on Feb 1, 2012 3:05 PM EST up reply actions
Completely disagree with this line btw
but unlike Chael Sonnen, we’re not observing theatre.
She has mentioned Chael and his marketing as a huge influence before.
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evidence in this interview
“It’s hilarious when these girls are ‘you talked yourself into a title shot!’ What you’re really saying in a mean way is that I’m smarter than all of you, and I actually have an understanding of how this works and used it to my advantage. "
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by Cory Braiterman on Feb 1, 2012 3:08 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
The obvious
difference is that when she speaks, she’s not reading from a script. If she’s borrowing from Chael, it’s inspiration, not imitation that underscores their similarities.
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by David Castillo on Feb 1, 2012 3:09 PM EST up reply actions 8 recs
And you people call Jon Jones arrogant.
When this chick gets her comeuppance it will be epic.
No, you're not drunk. I am this good-looking.
Newsflash: He is arrogant.
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by Earl Montclair on Feb 1, 2012 3:08 PM EST up reply actions 15 recs
OK I'm gonna go ahead and bite.
What the hell do these cats have to do with anything?
by Lauren J Darkbloom on Feb 1, 2012 3:46 PM EST up reply actions
everything
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by rohedron on Feb 1, 2012 3:50 PM EST up reply actions 13 recs
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by Garbanzo on Feb 1, 2012 4:51 PM EST up reply actions 4 recs
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I don't see how she's arrogant
She’s paid her dues in Olympic Judo, and is doing what it takes to get some dividends back. She’s right about the other members of WMMA not getting it and Cyborg being bad for the sport.
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by KJ Gould on Feb 1, 2012 3:08 PM EST up reply actions 4 recs
chaels bad for womens mma?
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by gxc on Feb 1, 2012 3:11 PM EST up reply actions 4 recs
No, Chael paid his dues in Olympic judo.
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by Earl Montclair on Feb 1, 2012 3:12 PM EST up reply actions 6 recs
he's bad for prostitutes, whom he alledgedly kills
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by merryprankster on Feb 1, 2012 3:48 PM EST up reply actions 6 recs
Woah Woah Woah
Chael Sonnen killed 5 hookers back in the mid 90s?? Allegedly?
by Mjub on Feb 1, 2012 4:12 PM EST up reply actions 6 recs
yup pretty sure it was mid 90's
when chael sonnen killed 5 hookers allegedly
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by merryprankster on Feb 1, 2012 4:26 PM EST up reply actions 6 recs
with Diego Sanchez
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by taptomyarmbar on Feb 2, 2012 3:57 AM EST up reply actions
She's a woman with an opinion
“arrogant” is the nicest thing anyone is going to call her.
by deliberately tuna on Feb 1, 2012 6:07 PM EST up reply actions
She took part in the olympics - put over a decade into it, starting as a child. You can expect passion, and some resulting bitterness when you aim high and attempt to reach an ideal.
It’s hard to for people who only aspire to mediocrity to understand why talented people behave the way they do.
And....
From reading her comments it seems like she wanted a free ride for the rest of her life because of it. Yes I agree with her that she and other athletes shouldn’t have to pay for trip expenses when they are representing our country but her whole thing seems to be that she didn’t get paid when she should have. The Olympics are suppose to be for amateur athletes who want to test their skill against the best in the world for love of country and competition. Not for who ever pays you the most so you can represent them. Shes not smart if she thought she should get paid by the American governing judo body. Having sponsers get you paid just ask Michael phelps.
by JG87 on Feb 1, 2012 5:14 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
A free ride for the rest of her life!?
Where the hell did she say that!?
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by GreyedOut on Feb 1, 2012 5:24 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
“Everyone talks about how awesome the Olympics are, but you know what? After the Olympics they give you ten grand a handshake. And you know what, it costs way more than ten grand to get there. The Olympics didn’t give a damn about me after I was done. And I gotta do what I gotta do to make a living.” Don’t really know what more you want them to do. No Olympic athlete should pay their own expenses I agree with that but she’s coming off pissy that she isn’t rich off of winning an Olympic medal. This is America its either gold or GTFO (semi joking on the last part
by JG87 on Feb 1, 2012 8:00 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
not joking dude.
Name me off the top of your head the teams who lost in the NBA, NFL and MLB finals.
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by wonderfulspam on Feb 1, 2012 8:31 PM EST up reply actions
10K
is what proportional reward for representing your country at the highest level? If that isn’t underappreciation, I don’t know what is. And she is right in complaining that the Olympic Committee should do a better job of helping/compensating athletes who’ve lost time they could have spent getting skills for the rest of their lives so that they could glory for ’MURICA!
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shes lucky to have gotten
10k and a handshake she should have gotten the hotel bill and a foot in the ass. There’s a reason why us Americans are born with a silver spoon in our mouths its so were born to hate the taste of losing.
by JG87 on Feb 1, 2012 8:32 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
If the athletes don’t like it then they don’t have to waste their time. The olympics are meant to celebrate competition and national pride, not to earn a paycheck.
dude, the athletes aren’t even breaking even. and some fat assholes at the top are getting rich instead. she’s young enough that her righteous indignation and sense of (in)justice are pretty fresh, and I hope they stay that way rather than her turning into a jaded them’s-the-breaks shlub who accepts injustice by merely doing something else rather than following her passion & talent.
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by mollcutpurse on Feb 1, 2012 10:34 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Swing and a miss
What I take from her comments is, that patriotic Americans pay fucktons of dollars for merchandise to sponsors who claim they support the Olympics, and the athletes, who are the ones earning that pride for Americans, are seeing so little of that.
It’s a valid point. Why support 24 hour Fitness and Gatorade if you’re doing it solely because they sponsor the Olympics, when in reality, they’re not sponsoring the people who matter.
It is bullshit that non-athletes are flying first class and staying in four star hotels off that sponsorship money. I bet if you asked the average American buying a Subway sandwich if they wanted a percentage of that money to go to buying first class plane tickets for a PR person to join the Judo team, they’d say No.
What Ronda is saying is that there are executives at these supposedly non-profit, amateur sports organizations that the Olympic athletes have to belong to that make bank, while the athletes are getting $10k and a handshake for doing the very thing that makes the executive’s post possible.
by RobtWeaver on Feb 2, 2012 11:26 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
didn’t realise you were a chick?
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by rohedron on Feb 1, 2012 3:49 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
This bit had me laughing pretty hard
If I gotta pose for some magazines…I’m not gonna show my nipples or asshole or anything like that but if I gotta walk around at the beach in a bikini, why not let someone take a picture of me and put it in a magazine?
We’re all familiar with the phrase T&A but nipples and asshole is a new take on that for me.
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by menckenstein on Feb 1, 2012 3:12 PM EST reply actions 12 recs
Nipples and Asshole. NNA?
’Ronda Rousey just created a new sex acronym.
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by McKinley B. Noble on Feb 1, 2012 7:24 PM EST via iPhone app up reply actions 1 recs
Is there any debate there?
“There’s a reason why the ring girls aren’t asked to star in movies, and it’s because they’re pretty but talentless.”
but..............Britney Palmer is an artist and can cradle a 150 year old redwood tree between her bewbs
talentless…..i think not.
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by Earl Montclair on Feb 1, 2012 3:14 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
arianny can draw too!
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by gxc on Feb 1, 2012 3:16 PM EST up reply actions 16 recs
its ok diz..you did good
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by gxc on Feb 1, 2012 3:25 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
Do you guys think the ring card girls are slacking in their job duties when they put on a robe sitting between rounds?
Isn’t being scantily clad a crucial component of their job description (along with holding the card and walking in a circle)?
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They're keeping warm between rounds
Like athletes do who wait on the benches before getting into the game. Yeah, that’ll do …
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by KJ Gould on Feb 1, 2012 6:49 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
do they get a warm up walk around before the event starts to get a feel for the cage?
Can someone get Sherdog to interview the beautiful Arianny and the beautiful chandela? We must get to the bottom of this
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But then their nipples and asshole might get cold, and we can’t have that. Or can we.
by Snake_Pliskan on Feb 1, 2012 8:28 PM EST up reply actions
and Logan
(i luv u logan)
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by Grappo on Feb 1, 2012 8:30 PM EST up reply actions 5 recs
excellent
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by Earl Montclair on Feb 1, 2012 9:58 PM EST up reply actions
Her name Arianny, and she likes to do drawrings!
by MuseMan82 on Feb 2, 2012 12:20 AM EST via mobile up reply actions 1 recs
Absolutely not
It’s easy to keep it real when you’re probably a lot more talented than everyone else.
by Flashking on Feb 1, 2012 3:17 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
her comments on the Olympics are fucking awesome. smash the state, Ronda.
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Glad she's speaking up about it
Lord knows some shill like Michael Phelps, Shaun White and Apollo Ohno won’t do it as long as they’re not being screwed like their contemporaries.
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The Olympics has been a farce for a long time...
…..she’s not really saying anything most people don’t know. Corupt is corupt.
Oh yeah, just nobody talks about it anymore
Especially someone who got a medal.
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it bears repeating. over and over and over again.
not everyone on earth keeps up with the Olympics or their treatment of athletes.
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The biggest problem with the Olympics
Is this childish, 19th century concept of amateurism as the ideal state for athletic performance. It was rooted in a British aristocratic contempt for people who pursued sports as a profession, and has no place in modern sports culture.
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by Patrick Wyman on Feb 1, 2012 4:00 PM EST up reply actions 8 recs
straight up
its become the primary tool for the direction and control of billions in currency by a select few old farts on a committee… not that paying the athletes tens of millions necessarily stops this kind of thing (think FIFA) but at least in that sport the top athletes are given the opportunity to never have to worry about money again (in most cases).
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Totally agree
My problem isn’t so much with the structure of the Olympics – that’s how large-scale sports businesses work, by and large – but with the hypocrisy inherent in the system. Same deal with the NCAA.
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by Patrick Wyman on Feb 1, 2012 4:08 PM EST up reply actions
unless it's corrupt
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[Technical comment]
She’s an Olympian, has finished all of her fights really quicky by submission and can back up all her smack talk.
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by menckenstein on Feb 1, 2012 3:17 PM EST up reply actions 12 recs
She hasn't fought anyone worth a damn, though.
"God loves violence... Why else would there be so much of it? It's in us. It's what we are. We wage war, we burn sacrifices, and pillage and plunder and tear at the flesh of our brothers. And why? Because God gave us violence to wage in his honor... There's no moral order at all. There's just this: can my violence conquer yours?"
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by ElliotMatheny on Feb 1, 2012 5:11 PM EST up reply actions
they scared
Who's the only one here who knows illegal ninja moves from the government?
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There is not that many people worth a damn in WMMA
by discoandherpes on Feb 2, 2012 10:28 AM EST up reply actions
That is true,
but Kaufman’s best wins count among those who can be considered worth a damn.
There's no moral order at all. There's just this: can my violence conquer yours?
by ElliotMatheny on Feb 2, 2012 2:16 PM EST up reply actions
outspoken, awesome subs, judo, not terrible to look at
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by Earl Montclair on Feb 1, 2012 3:18 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
lets be real
This girl is a 7 tops, I and I’m placing money that she’s already peaking in the looks department.
by JG87 on Feb 1, 2012 5:19 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
She is outspoken, top notch judo, and very good subs so yeah her looks was the only point I was refuting.
by JG87 on Feb 1, 2012 8:15 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
well, i said "not terrible" which is actually lower on the 1-10 scale than a 7
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by Earl Montclair on Feb 1, 2012 9:59 PM EST up reply actions
Objection
Score must be curved to reflect environment (e.g. Roseanne Bar is a 10 in prison).
Female MMA is not exactly a classic beauty bonanza ergo she gets bumped to the 8.5-9.5 range (Ring Car girls excluded), which is a polite way of saying out of your league, homie -and probably mine.
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Objection over ruled
WMMA is too small of a pool to have its own standard. It must be combined with other disciplines that make up WMMA for a sufficient basis or rounding up or down. Under these rules I present Gina Carano, and Kyra Gracie as 9 and 10’s (you choose the higher rank). When comparing Ronda to these two she moves into 7.5-8 range. Maybe even lower considering there are quite a few smoking bjj girls.
by JG87 on Feb 1, 2012 8:11 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
This one time at NAGA
I spent a little too much time looking at said BJJ girls and I had to put my Gi top over my lap and think about Roy NElson drinking Mayonnaise.
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They are great to look at and common sense says its great to roll with them but my Damn conscious won’t let me enjoy the rolling, its sucks being decent
by JG87 on Feb 1, 2012 8:18 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
the secret is open guard bro.
No de la Riva or X guard either, just foot on hip and foot behind the knee regular-ass open guard.
I don’t even try to grab their lapels its too awkward when I miss and smash a boob and such.
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I'm kind of the same way
I’m training, sex is the last thing on my mind at that point.
by discoandherpes on Feb 2, 2012 10:31 AM EST up reply actions
BJJ girls at grappling competitions are insane
by discoandherpes on Feb 2, 2012 10:31 AM EST up reply actions
Hidden Gold mine:
The cougarrific moms cheering at the kids’ division are pretty radtastic.
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That is a bit of a misrepresentation
She is pretty attractive when she isn’t all dolled up or anything like that.
A ten in the club is very easily a five the next morning when the make up comes off.
by discoandherpes on Feb 2, 2012 10:30 AM EST up reply actions
or when you wake up the next morning hung over
I had no idea chicks can gain 20 pounds after a night of drunken monkey sex.
Its gotta be true since this happened almost every time I scored in college.
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I find it amusing whenever someone on the internets diminishes Olympic champions who haven’t had an MMA match go beyond one minute with a “I don’t see the big deal.” Oy.
It's that the world is basically a forced labor camp from which the workers, perfectly innocent, are led forth by lottery, a few each day, to be executed.
I don't think that's just the way I see it. I think that's the way it is. Are there alternative views? Yes. Will any of them stand close scrutiny? No.
by memitim on Feb 1, 2012 3:45 PM EST via mobile up reply actions 7 recs
You do realise we're talking about WMMA here?
It’s not exactly a shark tank. The most dominant champion was ‘hormonally male’ beating up women, as Rosi Sexton put it.
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That true
But as long as everyone as everyone keeps that context in mind when throwing around claims like “She’s destroyed everyone she’s faced in the first round” because lets face it, Those 4 wins are pretty hollow and not indicative of where her ceiling actually lies.
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You don’t know what you are talking about. The women she beat are legit talents in WMMA and she beat them all in under one minute. Not to mention her past accomplishments. You don’t care about WMMA, that’s fine. Doesn’t change the fact that she is a big deal on the WMMA stage and calling her last opponents scrubs shows you don’t care about WMMA. So, just move on. But don’t spout nonsense.
It's that the world is basically a forced labor camp from which the workers, perfectly innocent, are led forth by lottery, a few each day, to be executed.
I don't think that's just the way I see it. I think that's the way it is. Are there alternative views? Yes. Will any of them stand close scrutiny? No.
by memitim on Feb 1, 2012 6:58 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
No they aren't.
- Julia Budd is 2-2, no notable wins. Amanda Nunes destroyed her.
- Sarah D’Alelio is 4-2, no notable wins, lost to the only other name opponent she’s ever faced (Kedzie).
- Charmaine Tweet is 0-2.
- Ediane Gomes has the best looking record on paper at 8-2, but is a complete can crusher (only has 1 win over a +.500 opponent). She also got crushed by Amanda Nunes.
None of Rousey’s wins are good quality. Kaufman is far, far more deserving than Ronda. It’s not even close.
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by ElliotMatheny on Feb 1, 2012 7:09 PM EST up reply actions
What hassle? You can make false statements like this with no hassle at all:
“None of Rousey’s wins are good quality.”
It's that the world is basically a forced labor camp from which the workers, perfectly innocent, are led forth by lottery, a few each day, to be executed.
I don't think that's just the way I see it. I think that's the way it is. Are there alternative views? Yes. Will any of them stand close scrutiny? No.
by memitim on Feb 1, 2012 7:32 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
How is it false?
You keep saying that her wins are good, but you’ve made no argument as to WHY they’re good quality wins, other than “they’re good because all 145 lb women are good!”
C’mon Mem. At least give me SOMETHING
"God loves violence... Why else would there be so much of it? It's in us. It's what we are. We wage war, we burn sacrifices, and pillage and plunder and tear at the flesh of our brothers. And why? Because God gave us violence to wage in his honor... There's no moral order at all. There's just this: can my violence conquer yours?"
- Warden of Ashecliffe Hospital
by ElliotMatheny on Feb 1, 2012 11:23 PM EST up reply actions
Also
Most people don’t know that in her fight with D’Alelio, Sarah didn’t even tap. Yet another fuck up by Mazz. I don’t consider that a win
"God loves violence... Why else would there be so much of it? It's in us. It's what we are. We wage war, we burn sacrifices, and pillage and plunder and tear at the flesh of our brothers. And why? Because God gave us violence to wage in his honor... There's no moral order at all. There's just this: can my violence conquer yours?"
- Warden of Ashecliffe Hospital
by ElliotMatheny on Feb 1, 2012 11:39 PM EST up reply actions
well since you don't
consider it a win we need to start #occupyronda movement to get this record fixed
He knows the guy with the bandage on his ass is going no were. Were you going fucking no were
by Elstriko on Feb 2, 2012 6:22 AM EST via Android app up reply actions
I'm surprised D'Alelio didn't appeal to the AC
There's no moral order at all. There's just this: can my violence conquer yours?
by ElliotMatheny on Feb 2, 2012 2:17 PM EST up reply actions
She admitted to yelling in pain
Which means it’s technically a submission. They tell you that at grappling tournaments as well.
by discoandherpes on Feb 2, 2012 11:04 PM EST up reply actions
By that standard
If you yell during a fight, then Diego Sanchez has been submitted in every fight he’s ever been in
There's no moral order at all. There's just this: can my violence conquer yours?
by ElliotMatheny on Feb 3, 2012 1:22 AM EST up reply actions
I don't say I agree with it
But if you’re a fighter you have to know that.
by discoandherpes on Feb 3, 2012 8:44 PM EST up reply actions
I would be interested to see if that's a rule.
Because, for example, in his 1’st fight with FIlho, Sonnen got caught in the fight- ending armbar, and screamed bloody murder- the ref considered it a verbal submission.
However, Babalu put Chael into a gnarly heel hook, and he screamed bloody murder, but it WASN’T considered a submission. I wonder if it’s just a judgement call on the ref’s part, or what.
There's no moral order at all. There's just this: can my violence conquer yours?
by ElliotMatheny on Feb 4, 2012 2:56 PM EST up reply actions
Kaufman got Fitched
Or she got Okamied.
Or Condited
My point is, she isn’t the first or the last more deserving fighter who got passed up for an opportunity due to marketing potential.
I recently quit drinking carbonated beverages.
Yeah, but it pretty much never ends well for anyone when they value popularity over merit.
Anyone remember Anderson Silva vs. Thales Leites? Okami was perfectly healthy, on a win streak, and had been promised a title shot. Now, would you rather rewatch Silva/ Leites or Silva/ Okami?
"God loves violence... Why else would there be so much of it? It's in us. It's what we are. We wage war, we burn sacrifices, and pillage and plunder and tear at the flesh of our brothers. And why? Because God gave us violence to wage in his honor... There's no moral order at all. There's just this: can my violence conquer yours?"
- Warden of Ashecliffe Hospital
by ElliotMatheny on Feb 1, 2012 11:25 PM EST up reply actions
are you kidding me?
We saw the invisible takedown for like 25 minutes dude.
Anderson was making him fall with his stare.
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Thigh punch = no can defend
There's no moral order at all. There's just this: can my violence conquer yours?
by ElliotMatheny on Feb 2, 2012 2:28 PM EST up reply actions
In today’s WMMA, especially her weight class, if you are fighting on a professional level you are not a scrub. I’m sorry. That’s just the facts. Are they the elite? No. Who is? Are they scrubs? That’s silly and insulting to these women who have made it out of the amateur scene and are now fighting for the bigger orgs.
It's that the world is basically a forced labor camp from which the workers, perfectly innocent, are led forth by lottery, a few each day, to be executed.
I don't think that's just the way I see it. I think that's the way it is. Are there alternative views? Yes. Will any of them stand close scrutiny? No.
by memitim on Feb 1, 2012 7:13 PM EST via mobile up reply actions 1 recs
So Teila Tuli wasn't a scrub?
because he was fighting in that day’s MMA?
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That makes zero sense. These women have all been competing at amateur and now professional levels for year’s, putting in the time to climb the ladder so they can make it to bigger shows. Tuli was a sumo brought in to represent a martial art and also a spectacle. Comparing them, as if both are spectacles, is crazy.
It's that the world is basically a forced labor camp from which the workers, perfectly innocent, are led forth by lottery, a few each day, to be executed.
I don't think that's just the way I see it. I think that's the way it is. Are there alternative views? Yes. Will any of them stand close scrutiny? No.
by memitim on Feb 1, 2012 7:18 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Rousey's 4 MMA opponents are subpar.
Can you really argue that they aren’t? She’s going from fighting scrubs to fighting the #1 girl in her weight class.
"God loves violence... Why else would there be so much of it? It's in us. It's what we are. We wage war, we burn sacrifices, and pillage and plunder and tear at the flesh of our brothers. And why? Because God gave us violence to wage in his honor... There's no moral order at all. There's just this: can my violence conquer yours?"
- Warden of Ashecliffe Hospital
by ElliotMatheny on Feb 1, 2012 11:27 PM EST up reply actions
There is no middle of the division for her to fight though
Your either a lower level female fighter or an upper level female fighter.
by discoandherpes on Feb 2, 2012 10:33 AM EST up reply actions
Sure there is.
Kaufman is fighting Alexis Davis, who is considered a top 5 female 135 lb’er. It really should be Kaufman/ Tate 2, and Rousey/ Davis to determine the next top contender.
There's no moral order at all. There's just this: can my violence conquer yours?
by ElliotMatheny on Feb 2, 2012 2:20 PM EST up reply actions
She's a top five fighter, but only a middle of the division fighter?
The sad part is I kind of agree with you.
by discoandherpes on Feb 2, 2012 11:06 PM EST up reply actions
They are merely fortunate to be involved in WMMA during its foetal stages
The same could be said for the Men’s Heavyweight division.
Im sorry but amateur scene or not, Some people are just victims or benefactors of circumstance.
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which is what happenned with Tuli, his Sumo fighting ass got into the UFC because the level of competition was not balanced. They needed roster spots to fill.
I recently quit drinking carbonated beverages.
Right, but we are beyond where UFC was at UFC 1 with WMMA. There is a real regional circuit, both amateur and professional, that these women have been competing in for years. Yes, it is in its early years but it is well beyond what the UFC was in its first event when Tuli was brought in almost as a circus attraction.
It's that the world is basically a forced labor camp from which the workers, perfectly innocent, are led forth by lottery, a few each day, to be executed.
I don't think that's just the way I see it. I think that's the way it is. Are there alternative views? Yes. Will any of them stand close scrutiny? No.
by memitim on Feb 1, 2012 7:23 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
OK Elite XC
How many cans fought in that promotion to fill out roster spots or be fed to Kimbo.
You don’t think it is fair to say that some of her opponents have been chosen to “build her up” and others have been chosen because there were slim pickings?
Even Strikeforce has had scrubs fighting, to not acknowledge that there is some level of mediocrity in the competition is to be in denial I think.
I recently quit drinking carbonated beverages.
What I am saying is just about any woman who is fighting for a promotion like Strikeforce at 145 is a professional and has risen to that level with skill. Plain and simple.
It's that the world is basically a forced labor camp from which the workers, perfectly innocent, are led forth by lottery, a few each day, to be executed.
I don't think that's just the way I see it. I think that's the way it is. Are there alternative views? Yes. Will any of them stand close scrutiny? No.
by memitim on Feb 1, 2012 10:11 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
They are scrubs.
Kaufman and Tate ARE elite women. Rousey could be, but we don’t know yet- she hasn’t fought anyone worth a damn. I suspect that Tate is going to whoop her. Rousey could pull a Jon Jones and beat much higher ranked fighters, but we just can’t know whether she will or not.
"God loves violence... Why else would there be so much of it? It's in us. It's what we are. We wage war, we burn sacrifices, and pillage and plunder and tear at the flesh of our brothers. And why? Because God gave us violence to wage in his honor... There's no moral order at all. There's just this: can my violence conquer yours?"
- Warden of Ashecliffe Hospital
by ElliotMatheny on Feb 1, 2012 11:32 PM EST up reply actions
but who's on second?
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Equal to forty ounces of fine sand -- Nabokov
by mollcutpurse on Feb 1, 2012 11:34 PM EST up reply actions
I don't know what that means.
"God loves violence... Why else would there be so much of it? It's in us. It's what we are. We wage war, we burn sacrifices, and pillage and plunder and tear at the flesh of our brothers. And why? Because God gave us violence to wage in his honor... There's no moral order at all. There's just this: can my violence conquer yours?"
- Warden of Ashecliffe Hospital
by ElliotMatheny on Feb 1, 2012 11:37 PM EST up reply actions
Tate is going to whoop up on her?
I don’t see it. You think Tate can hold her down for five rounds and not get subbed? Even if Tate is the better fighter (which I disagree with), Tate is a small 135 pound fighter, and Rousey is probably going to have a big strength advantage.
Outside of Coenen, Tate really hasn’t beat anyone either.
by discoandherpes on Feb 2, 2012 10:36 AM EST up reply actions
I doubt Rousey is stronger than Tate.
Think about the kind of record that Judoka have against wrestlers in MMA- not good. And I don’t even think that Miesha needs to hold Ronda down- she’s a better striker. She can outstrike her standing, stuff Rousey’s takedowns, etc. Or she could take Ronda down, pass guard, pound on her.
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by ElliotMatheny on Feb 2, 2012 2:23 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Rousey is bigger and her upper body strength is probably more attuned from tossing people
Rousey was strong enough to toss people at 145, and Tate isn’t a big 135 pounder at all. She could probably make 125 without too much trouble. Ronda’s shoulders are huge for a reason. If you’ve ever rolled with a judoka, it’s an odd experience. They do have some bad habits when grappling, but you generally can’t fuck with what they are good at.
Your generalization of judo is also flawed. Just like they’re guys whose wrestling styles don’t translate to MMA well, they’re guys whose Judo styles doesn’t translate to MMA well.
Style vs. style isn’t that big of a deal in modern MMA. You have to look at the skills of the fighters.
Look at Omigawa vs. Mendes. Mendes had trouble taking Omigawa to the ground because of that judo base. A lot of judokas generate offense from the clinch, and that is usually where a lot of guys set up their takedowns. Shooting from outside usually doesn’t benefit the wrestler unless they set it up with strikes first.
Not to mention that Tate isn’t anything special on the feet. I doubt Tate can generate the type of offense to put Ronda away with strikes.
All that said, I’m glad to have you back. I feel like I constantly have to step my game up whenever we have these kinds of discussions.
by discoandherpes on Feb 2, 2012 11:15 PM EST up reply actions
I enjoy the debate.
But yeah, Tate is my horse here. Rousey is good, but she’s unproven, and I just smh whenever matchups are made more for marketing reasons than by merit.
There's no moral order at all. There's just this: can my violence conquer yours?
by ElliotMatheny on Feb 3, 2012 1:25 AM EST up reply actions
Well, luckily we won’t have to wait too long. I’m actually really excited about this fight.
by discoandherpes on Feb 3, 2012 8:45 PM EST up reply actions
Kaufman's last two opponents are just as bad.
by discoandherpes on Feb 2, 2012 10:32 AM EST up reply actions
Are you serious?
Did you miss the awesome performance Liz Carmouche had against Marloes? She is MUCH, much more talented than any of Rousey’s opponents have been. This is a girl who fought 2 of the very best fighters in the division, with only 5 fights under her belt, and acquitted herself very well.
Yabushita is a serious veteran, and has wins over Erin Toughill & Hitomi Akano. She and Carmouche both are worlds better than any of Rousey’s 4 wins.
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by ElliotMatheny on Feb 2, 2012 2:27 PM EST up reply actions
Carmouche has never beaten anyone good really
Her performance looked great because of Coenen’s inability to fight once her guard is passed. Coenen looks like a brown belt when she has the guard, but looks like a white belt once someone passes it.
Yabushita is an alright journey woman, but is she really anymore dangerous than someone like Julia Budd?
by discoandherpes on Feb 2, 2012 11:23 PM EST up reply actions
She's definitely better than Budd
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by ElliotMatheny on Feb 3, 2012 1:25 AM EST up reply actions
I'm not sure
Seeing her flinch the way she did against Kaufman was pretty disheartening. She looked like one of those people that just started sparring.
Say what you want about Judd, but she had her arm turned backward and looked mildly annoyed. Skill wise I’d lean Carmouche, but I would say Budd is a bigger threat to inflict some violence. I know if I had to fight one of them it wouldn’t be Budd.
At the same time none of these are really good arguments, I’m just thinking out loud. I just don’t like Carmouche.
by discoandherpes on Feb 3, 2012 8:50 PM EST up reply actions
it is wrong to diminish these quik victories
But it also leaves a lot of questions unanswered, like what if she can’t take it to her realm.
How will she respond to getting cut, etc.
It is very easy to buy into the hype or the hate because both sides have compelling arguments.
If it makes you feel better, people didn’t stop criticizing Jon Jones until he lost a round to Lyoto, let her taste adversity and then the detractors will either find something else to nag about or finally be quiet.
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Of course there are questions to be answered, and I look forward to that. But, it’s kind of like someone who could care less about baseball going on to a Yankee board and saying “I don’t see what the big deal is with this CC guy.”
It's that the world is basically a forced labor camp from which the workers, perfectly innocent, are led forth by lottery, a few each day, to be executed.
I don't think that's just the way I see it. I think that's the way it is. Are there alternative views? Yes. Will any of them stand close scrutiny? No.
by memitim on Feb 1, 2012 7:10 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
I dunno
I’m neutral, I want to see a fight, a good one.
Kaufman has delivered more snoozers, but she has way more fights.
Rousey is exciting, but she wouldn’t be the first hot prospect (pun intended) who didn’t rise to the occasion when it mattered most.
Karo and Sukodju are too such examples and also judokas to boot.
5 minutes of total fighting time isn’t a big enough body of work to render an accurate judgment either way.
I recently quit drinking carbonated beverages.
Ok so let me change my baseball analogy to someone saying on a Yankee board “Who cares about this Pineda guy.” What she will become is yet to be seen but what we have seen so far is damn exciting and if you are a fan of WMMA the last thing you are going to say about Ronda is “Who cares?”
It's that the world is basically a forced labor camp from which the workers, perfectly innocent, are led forth by lottery, a few each day, to be executed.
I don't think that's just the way I see it. I think that's the way it is. Are there alternative views? Yes. Will any of them stand close scrutiny? No.
by memitim on Feb 1, 2012 7:27 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Come on dude, you seriously believe whoever said that doesn’t care to some degree?
Was that comment not made deep into a thread discussing a Ronda interview.
You got baited, there is no such thing as bad press.
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I think, based on his recent comment below, he is just that snarky guy who comes in and says “Who cares?” I’m just saying, why bother.
It's that the world is basically a forced labor camp from which the workers, perfectly innocent, are led forth by lottery, a few each day, to be executed.
I don't think that's just the way I see it. I think that's the way it is. Are there alternative views? Yes. Will any of them stand close scrutiny? No.
by memitim on Feb 1, 2012 10:08 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Ogawa was an 8 - 0 Judoka and nobody gave a shit about what he had to say.
People like her cos she’s not absolutely hideous – that’s all.
And she talks so much bullshit about so many different topics that she's bound to strike a chord with one target audience.
I say feed her to Cyborg, Derail the hype train and off she goes to show that nipple and asshole with Gina on “Haywire 41”
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She sure has a lot to say....
I’d be down to watch Cyborg punch her in the face…..but that’s just me.
They know I’m an Olympic medalist. They know I’m an Olympian. They will not let me in there without paying. I have to pay to go into 24 hour fitness. I have to buy every single Gatorade bottle. That money does not go to the athletes.
No, it goes to the people making minimum wage that have to clean your leavings on the equipment, you colossal dipshit. Arrogance isn’t even the right word to describe her anymore. Arrogance was six months ago. We’re way beyond that at this point.
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Difference being they're the OFFICIAL GYM OF THE OLYMPICS and not just A Gym Where An Olympian Wants To Train
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Extreme example: It'd be like if Jordan had to go down to Footlocker to buy his own shoes.
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She's not an Olympian anymore.
She’s a professional athlete.
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by BVandDietPepsi on Feb 1, 2012 3:21 PM EST up reply actions
She is talking about when she was an Olympian. Not now. That’s pretty obvious.
It's that the world is basically a forced labor camp from which the workers, perfectly innocent, are led forth by lottery, a few each day, to be executed.
I don't think that's just the way I see it. I think that's the way it is. Are there alternative views? Yes. Will any of them stand close scrutiny? No.
by memitim on Feb 1, 2012 3:48 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Holy shit, guys.
I walked into 24 hour fitness the other day.
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by BVandDietPepsi on Feb 1, 2012 3:53 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Holy Shit Guys!!!
I’m talking about her overall rant on the subject. You are getting bent way out of shape on this. Yes, the Olympics were a way for her to get known but it doesn’t mean she has to enjoy the shit she went thru to get there and it also doesn’t mean she can use her position now to discuss the corruption that surrounds the games and takes away from the athletes that aren’t named Phelps or Misty May. She went thru it, she earned the right to talk about it. Plain and simple. Stop whining.
It's that the world is basically a forced labor camp from which the workers, perfectly innocent, are led forth by lottery, a few each day, to be executed.
I don't think that's just the way I see it. I think that's the way it is. Are there alternative views? Yes. Will any of them stand close scrutiny? No.
by memitim on Feb 1, 2012 4:03 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
All that because you misread an article?
Yeesh, doesn’t appear I’m the one that’s getting bent here…
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by BVandDietPepsi on Feb 1, 2012 4:04 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah, that’s why you are ranting and raving all over the board against her. You missed my point, oh well.
It's that the world is basically a forced labor camp from which the workers, perfectly innocent, are led forth by lottery, a few each day, to be executed.
I don't think that's just the way I see it. I think that's the way it is. Are there alternative views? Yes. Will any of them stand close scrutiny? No.
by memitim on Feb 1, 2012 4:10 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Nope. Read that disjointed mess you called a post.
Her points are valid, as I’ve said multiple times, but they’re redundant. She knew the pros and cons and made a decision. Who’s the one whining?
I’m not ranting or raving, I’m having a conversation. You should try it.
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by BVandDietPepsi on Feb 1, 2012 4:11 PM EST up reply actions
She’s sitting through an extensive interview chronicling her career on a major MMA site. It’s not redundant, people are just getting to know her. Anyway it’s pointless to have a conversation with someone who is ranting and raving. Have fun howling at the moon.
It's that the world is basically a forced labor camp from which the workers, perfectly innocent, are led forth by lottery, a few each day, to be executed.
I don't think that's just the way I see it. I think that's the way it is. Are there alternative views? Yes. Will any of them stand close scrutiny? No.
by memitim on Feb 1, 2012 4:17 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
In the IOC (International Olympic Committee) reference manual on core terminology produced in 2004,
Olympians are presented as "Persons who have participated as athletes at the Olympic Games."
so yeah, she’s an olympian. and a damn good one at that
and on really romantic evenings of self, I go salsa dancing with my confusion.
by Johnathan Willis on Feb 1, 2012 3:52 PM EST up reply actions 8 recs
So every athlete that has ever been an Olympian can get free shit from any sponsor that has ever been an Olympic sponsor for life?
C’mon.
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by BVandDietPepsi on Feb 1, 2012 3:54 PM EST up reply actions
I never said that
I simply corrected and informed you of the error in the following statement
She’s not an Olympian anymore.
She’s a professional athlete.
and on really romantic evenings of self, I go salsa dancing with my confusion.
by Johnathan Willis on Feb 1, 2012 3:56 PM EST up reply actions 6 recs
You were aware of the context, I'm sure.
I’m pretty sure you knew I meant “current” Olympian.
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by BVandDietPepsi on Feb 1, 2012 3:58 PM EST up reply actions
She's a Silver Medalist
They should be paying her to work out there and be a face for their gym.
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by KJ Gould on Feb 1, 2012 5:33 PM EST up reply actions 4 recs
bronze medalist I think
but she’s still the only american female in AT LEAST 20 years to ever accomplish that. Also she’s listed as the number 3 ranked female judoka in the entire world still today.
The return on having someone of her caliber in their gym would more than pay for any monthly fee they would want her to pay.
and on really romantic evenings of self, I go salsa dancing with my confusion.
by Johnathan Willis on Feb 1, 2012 6:31 PM EST up reply actions
Right, Bronze
I think I must have been thinking of another Judoka who was a Silver Medalist who does MMA. Which off the top of my head could only be Min Soo Kim. Hmm. Not the best example of fighting prowess there …
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Correction: HALF a bronze medal
They award two for whatever reason so she came 3.5rd lol
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She did at least win her match for the Bronze
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Why do they award 2 bronze medals? I makes no sense to me.
Just wondering.
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that why i always see usain bolt at planet fitness??
Whimmy wham wham wozzle
by gxc on Feb 1, 2012 3:22 PM EST up reply actions
Difference in treatment between judoka in the olympics and runners, swimmers, gymnasts
Bolt got his monies.
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Bolt is also the best in the world at what he does and a world-record holder.
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by BVandDietPepsi on Feb 1, 2012 3:29 PM EST up reply actions
Name the best Olympic judoka in the world without wiki/google
I can’t. Running part of T&F gets you paid, judo doesn’t.
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That would be mr Teddy Riner from France
by basvanderwolk on Feb 1, 2012 3:48 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Pretty incredible resume
Name the best Olympic match pistol shooter without google/wiki!!!
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...what?
Masahiko Kimura never participated in any Olympic games.
by WheelieMonkey on Feb 2, 2012 12:07 AM EST up reply actions
exactly. nobody fucking knows who is the best judoka without google.
I recently quit drinking carbonated beverages.
That wasn't the question
“Name the best Olympic judoka”
by WheelieMonkey on Feb 3, 2012 3:34 AM EST up reply actions
I know.
That’s why I said Kimura. I could not think of who the best Olympic Judoka is off the top of my head.
The people I seriously considered were not even close.
I recently quit drinking carbonated beverages.
Isn't it weird that sprinters get paid to sprint at IOC events
but nobody else can make money in their Olympic sport?
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Not talking about bonus money or endorsements, I mean getting paid to run
Olympic boxers can’t box for money, or they lose their status. Other sports like tennis, hockey, basketball, and baseball can have pro athletes compete but not the combat sports…it seems like bullshit to me and backs up what Rousey is saying.
Who's the only one here who knows illegal ninja moves from the government?
No holds barred, no time for move fakin,
Gots to get the loot so I can bring home the bacon - Charlie Brown
Ah . Yeah, there’s a little bit of a double-standard across the sports, though AIBA is starting to dip its toes in “pro” boxing. Elsewhere, I think it’s because there’s no money to be made. We’re worried about UFC fighter pay, and the UFC generates gazillions in revenue. Probably not enough revenue in judo to have “pros.”
That said, some of the things Rousey mentions here could easily be done.
But she's talking about present day.
She’s not an Olympian any more. She’s bitching because she, a professional athlete who WAS an Olympian, has to pay to work out and doesn’t get free beverages.
She wants to have her cake and eat it too.
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by BVandDietPepsi on Feb 1, 2012 3:24 PM EST up reply actions
She was never given any eggs or flour to begin with
I can understand her being bitter.
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It was her choice.
Her own mother was an Olympian, she saw how it worked first-hand. She wasn’t drafted.
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by BVandDietPepsi on Feb 1, 2012 3:27 PM EST up reply actions
Yes that it's, nobody strive to achieve anything or hope to try to change anything if you don't like the way it works
You’re losing it my man… deep breaths.
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by menckenstein on Feb 1, 2012 3:31 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
the free market will solve it all, man
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by menckenstein on Feb 1, 2012 3:32 PM EST up reply actions 12 recs
Menck -
You’re consistently one of my favorites here with some of the stuff you drop. Much bro love.
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Who's losing what?
Huh?
Listen, it’s really simple. If your dad was in the Navy, and the Navy treated him like shit, and he got a raw deal, and swore he wanted nothing to do with the Navy anymore, and you saw this all first-hand, why would you want to join the Navy?
She knew full well what she was getting into. The Olympics ARE corrupt, everyone knows this. If you want the pride and the glory and the fame of being an Olympian, well, sometimes to gotta eat the shit. She wasn’t blindsided by any of this.
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by BVandDietPepsi on Feb 1, 2012 3:34 PM EST up reply actions
She may have conflicted and complex feelings about it. She clearly has a love for competition or she wouldn’t be doing mma, and her judo skills must be formidable or she never would have medaled.
She may have been compelled to compete with those factors in mind despite her distaste for the community and regulating bodies.
And that's great. It was probably tough for her.
But pointing all this out now, after using the Olympics to build her profile seems hypocritical and short-sighted.
I feel the same way about NFL players that bitch when they can’t walk when they’re 50. You signed on the dotted line, my man.
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by BVandDietPepsi on Feb 1, 2012 3:39 PM EST up reply actions
Build her profile or overcome and achieve?
Not like judo gets any coverage outside of niche publications. They show it on ESPN 8 at 4 in the morning between Oxyclean infomercials.
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Build her profile.
It gave her credibility and marketability.
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by BVandDietPepsi on Feb 1, 2012 3:42 PM EST up reply actions
So you're claiming she planned on coming into MMA before she started her Olympic run?
That’s ten types of wrong my man. She happened to be an Olympian who found another sport where her skills were applicable and where she could potentially earn a living.
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by menckenstein on Feb 1, 2012 3:47 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
And she used her Olympic achievements as a springboard. She doesn’t shy away from throwing that she was an Olympian in everyone’s face.
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by BVandDietPepsi on Feb 1, 2012 3:51 PM EST up reply actions
Because she earned it
Leave the straws alone.
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Yeah, so the Olympics benefitted her too.
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by BVandDietPepsi on Feb 1, 2012 3:55 PM EST up reply actions
Based on her own achievement
It’s not like she just walked in there and got handed a medal.
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That’s like an Eagle Scout boating that he’s an Eagle Scout but bashing the Boy Scouts all over the place.
Seems petty and hypocritical.
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by BVandDietPepsi on Feb 1, 2012 3:57 PM EST up reply actions
Despite their best efforts I achieved greatness
How is that hypocritical?
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Then it’s just a weird victim complex.
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by BVandDietPepsi on Feb 1, 2012 3:59 PM EST up reply actions
So anyone who overcomes adversity while taking it head on has a victim complex?
Da fuuuuck?
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She wasn’t “overcoming” anything that every single Olympic Judoka doesn’t deal with all the time.
You’re kinda building her into something really huge now.
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by BVandDietPepsi on Feb 1, 2012 4:02 PM EST up reply actions
Maybe someone with a strong competitive nature would want to overcome that and "avenge" their parent
Stuff like that happens all the time. Despite their lack of support and possible interference she won a medal at the Olympics. Mission completed.
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I don't feel like dealing in hypotheticals.
Support or not (and she has a very close relationship with her mother), she knew the cost, did it anyway, succeeded, and used it to vault her into professional sports.
Good for her. She’s very talented, I’m not doubting that, but it seems petty.
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by BVandDietPepsi on Feb 1, 2012 3:40 PM EST up reply actions
We don't know all the ins and outs of her experience but
It’s clear she feels that she herself and her sport are disrespected by the Olympics and despite doing something amazing like medaling at the games she still had nothing to show for it where other sports are better represented with more money.
Nobody wants lesser treatment in a field of supposed equals.
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That's life, man.
The best basketball player is gonna make more than the best high-jumper in the world.
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by BVandDietPepsi on Feb 1, 2012 3:48 PM EST up reply actions
Because the Olympics is dominated by money, not by athletic competition and achievement
That’s what she’s mad about.
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No.
She was bummed that once she was done as an Olympian, they didn’t give her anything.
Again, nothing new to anyone.
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by BVandDietPepsi on Feb 1, 2012 3:52 PM EST up reply actions
She got no support from the USA Judo org (puppet of Olympics) during her training and the lead up to the games
C’mon man.
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That’s a whole other issue. Any gripe she had while she was currently training for the Olympics is perfectly valid.
I’m talking about her “I’m a medalist, they know who I am, I should get in free” absurdness.
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by BVandDietPepsi on Feb 1, 2012 4:09 PM EST up reply actions
you don't understand "context"
she isn’t trying to “expose” the Olympics here, she’s explaining why she’s hustling like she is, and part of explaining that involves explaining the ways the Olympics fucks athletes over.
A thousand years ago five minutes were
Equal to forty ounces of fine sand -- Nabokov
She’s a professional now, she doesn’t have to explain hustling to anyone. She’s allowed, encouraged even, to seek sponsors.
I really don’t know why this is being treated as so revolutionary. That was pretty much a standard anti-Olympic tirade that people have been saying for decades.
Minus the boo-hooing about not getting free Gatorade at 24 Hour Fitness, granted.
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by BVandDietPepsi on Feb 1, 2012 3:44 PM EST up reply actions
luckily she gets plenty of free Haterade
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Please.
Re-read the thread. She gets an insane amount of love.
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by BVandDietPepsi on Feb 1, 2012 3:46 PM EST up reply actions
que?
not only is your reading comprehension at an elementary level, but you also suck at math. most of the comments on any thread involving her are mean-spirited, misogynist, or just straight up hater jive talk.
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Insults are childish.
As evidenced by the half-dozen or so people that I’m currently arguing with, I’d say a fair amount of people come to her aid.
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by BVandDietPepsi on Feb 1, 2012 3:56 PM EST up reply actions
menckenstein and I are legion
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Equal to forty ounces of fine sand -- Nabokov
For the record, I agree with everything you've said.
We all make our choices in life. She didn’t go into this blindfolded. We all make our choices in life. I won’t be losing sleep over the fact that she now has to pay for her drinks and her gym membership.
"You've got Floyd Mayweather making $25 million. He can't stop a double-leg..." Nick Diaz.
Agreed.
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by BVandDietPepsi on Feb 1, 2012 4:08 PM EST up reply actions
You lost me on this one BV
I like your stuff, but you’re acting like she her decision to become an Olympian is on par with the choice to become a stripper. She’s good at combat sports & has the genetics for judo so yeah, why not train as an Olympian level judoka. There is no other avenue for a ‘professional’ judoka other than MMA outside of Japan, especially for a woman. What’s a girl going to do? Her opinion is that the system sucks, and from all accounts it looks like it’s true coming from far more athletes than Rousey.
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by tigerlee on Feb 1, 2012 5:02 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
Cutting out the pre- and pro- ceding sentence is a bit disengenuous.
They’re a multi-million dollar sponsor of the Olympic games.
….
That money goes into a lot of really corrupt national governing bodies that bounce that money around, they give it to all their friends, and almost none of that money makes it to the athletes.
She’s not being arrogant in the way you make her out to be. She’s trying to show how corrupt and wasteful the olympic business is and that she thinks they should put more money towards the athletes. I highly doubt she has any issues with the min wage workers getting paid by the money she has to pay for the gym.
by Cocytus on Feb 1, 2012 3:47 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
How would her getting in free benefit the current Olympic athletes?
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by BVandDietPepsi on Feb 1, 2012 3:52 PM EST up reply actions
Youre a colossal dipshit. The GYM pays the the OLYMPICS money. All the money that would go to paying someone minimum wage to clean her leavings is in the coffers at the Olympics. Could the Olympics have demanded a little less money in exchange for free memberships for athletes? Yeah, probably and that wouldve left more money with the business to pay its employees.
Its bad business.
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by troy145 on Feb 1, 2012 4:04 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
If she was in the Olympics, of course she gets in free. She’s not. She’s done with the Olympics.
Once you start giving away stuff to anyone that’s ever participated in something, the slope gets awfully slippery.
I didn’t insult you, don’t insult me.
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by BVandDietPepsi on Feb 1, 2012 4:08 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
“If I gotta pose for some magazines…I’m not gonna show my nipples or asshole or anything like that but if I gotta walk around at the beach in a bikini, why not let someone take a picture of me and put it in a magazine?”
Damn it!
Nah, never going to happen. Honestly, I’d be disappointed if it did. It’s a hell of a comment though and it made me lol to hear it.
by Empty Thoughts on Feb 1, 2012 10:35 PM EST up reply actions
And I gotta do what I gotta do to make a living. If I gotta pose for some magazines…I’m not gonna show my nipples or asshole or anything like that but if I gotta walk around at the beach in a bikini, why not let someone take a picture of me and put it in a magazine?
So what you are saying……is we still have a chance to see her pooner. She left it out, so I am reading in between the lines.
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by HeadKickOfDoom on Feb 1, 2012 3:29 PM EST reply actions 5 recs
guess i better prepare myself
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by Earl Montclair on Feb 1, 2012 4:04 PM EST up reply actions
Yo dawg, I heard you like Dumb and Dumber
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by merryprankster on Feb 1, 2012 4:30 PM EST up reply actions 6 recs
It'll be great when she gets exposed for not being very good at fighting...
Let’s be real here: arm-barring your way to a title would not play in men’s mma and probably won’t play in wmma either. Miesha Tate, Marloes Coenen and any respectable wmma-ist would kick her ass.
Most of these WMMA fighters have awful awful AWFUL striking, suck ass in the clinch and are barely passable grapplers
It wouldn’t fly in men’s MMA but that’s because men’s MMA has higher developed athletes
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Let's be real here
She is really damn good at armbars, so it seems to be working.
Palhares is really damn good at heel hooks, and he still catches other BJJ black belts.
I agree with you to an extent. I’m just saying there’s more about her game that we don’t know considering her body of work. I think it would be hilarious if she gets crushed by Tate, then crushed in her next fight and we look back and think, why were we even listening to this chick? Oh, right… because she’s hot(ish)..
Ya know
Marloes did, in fact, armbar her way to a title.
And has a huge hole in her bottom game
Pass Coenen’s guard and you’ve basically already won.
by discoandherpes on Feb 2, 2012 10:43 AM EST up reply actions
Ronda your awesome!
But don’t you ever call Palmer talentless, you big thick face
by Bigbub on Feb 1, 2012 3:33 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
I don't know why she's complaining about the Olympics. Valid points or not,
she knew what she was getting in to, did she not? Didn’t someone – a coach, a parent, a friend – at some during all those years of training tell her, “Oh, by the way, the medal doesn’t come with a pension plan.” I think at this point anyone with half a brain would know the Olympics aren’t what they’re made out to be. She just likes to talk. And talk. And talk. But whatever; I have nothing against people doing what they do to get a legal buck. If this is what she has to do to get sites like BE to post her stuff and keep herself in the spotlight while waiting for a fight, good for her.
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Did anyone see her on the Joe Rogan podcast
She seemed pretty likable on it. But, now i understand why people are calling her arrogant. However, i feel like she is getting extra hate because she is a woman.
by MarcGua on Feb 1, 2012 3:38 PM EST reply actions 4 recs
Other way around.
She gets more love because she’s an attractive woman. If a man (Bones, for instance), would spout this shit, BE would be burned to the ground.
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by BVandDietPepsi on Feb 1, 2012 4:00 PM EST up reply actions
dude, Nick Diaz was echoing the same kind of sentiment that Ronda did here in the UFC 137 post fight presser
and people were laughing it up in here.
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To be fair
He has never taken a class on how to give post fight interviews.
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he should teach one
I would love for a whole generation of athletes to give interviews exactly like Nick Diaz.
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Yes
with a foreword from Sylvester Stallone in Rocky IV
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The more she talks and fights
The more I root for her.
Also: Women belong in the cage fighting, not outside the cage prancing around like idiots in a bikini.
by Django Z on Feb 1, 2012 10:59 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
I like Ronda, but come on. Her mom was in the Olympics, she knew what she was getting in to.
Fuck you, double fingers
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Yeah anyone who receives poor treatment should shoo their children away from ever trying to achieve anything in that arena
DUMB.
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It seems
that what really grinds her gears is the disparate treatment between what the athletes get for actually being the draw of the Olympics, versus the string-pullers in their Hickey Freeman suits and John Hardy necklaces are getting for basically singing endorsement deals and flying first class gratis…
by Dootch on Feb 1, 2012 4:13 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
all these dealmakers making deals
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I’ve had to travel for work…..it’s not fun. The part that is left out in the interview is that some people don’t get a choice; your boss comes to you and says “you’re traveling to do this thing for me”…..you go or you don’t have a job. Typically the businesses make it a little easier on travelers (while they are away from home and family) is by providing first class travel and decent accomodations. My point being, Ronda chose to be at the Olympics while some of the people she describes may have been there because their boss told them they were going.
That said, the treatment of athletes by those in charge of the Olympics is deplorable.
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It’s easier though to read everything but her point. Damn you.
by Empty Thoughts on Feb 1, 2012 10:40 PM EST up reply actions
I can't find any evidence of her mom every being in the olympics
Only the Pan American games, which (correct me if I’m wrong) isn’t actually the Olympics.
by discoandherpes on Feb 2, 2012 10:46 AM EST up reply actions
I still love her.
I’m starting to think it’s pretty much unconditional at this point.
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by KatGirl on Feb 1, 2012 3:50 PM EST reply actions 8 recs
me had caption 2 go 4 dis, but brain just stopp
by Diz D on Feb 1, 2012 3:57 PM EST up reply actions 5 recs
see? she's no female Chael Sonnen
he’d never rock a shirt that said BRASIL on it
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by mollcutpurse on Feb 1, 2012 4:00 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
Damn.
Ronda Rousey gives nay fuck.
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She not afrain to talk… i just wish strikeforce would be for women and ufc for men.. that would make more sense.. if they want more women fighters then they need to start supporting the ones they have so others can do it full time
u talk too clever
make brain hurt
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by rohedron on Feb 1, 2012 3:59 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I don’t think there’s any financial incentive to make Strikeforce a purely Womens MMA league. I feel that the way it is right now, Womens MMA is something of a novelty, and having a purely Womens MMA org would lose that novelty factor very quickly.
As far as Rousey goes, she should in my opinion keep talking. There really aren’t any polarizing fighters in Womens MMA right now especially with Carano and Cyborg gone.
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by T.C. Engel on Feb 1, 2012 4:12 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Yeah
seems there are a lot of people who adore a Diaz complaining about not being able to buy anything but a shitbox Honda who seem to hate a woman bitching about not getting paid….
You have it reversed.
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by BVandDietPepsi on Feb 1, 2012 4:16 PM EST up reply actions
You, no.
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by BVandDietPepsi on Feb 1, 2012 4:23 PM EST up reply actions
I shall forever root for her because of this.......
I’m gonna talk a bunch of shit. I’m gonna pose in a couple of pictures. And I’m gonna break a couple of girl’s arms, and I’m not gonna feel the least bit sorry about it because you know what? At least I can feed my dog.
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not quite
should be: couple of girls’
/pedant
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You go girl!
Tell ’em like it is.
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“The Olympics is the epitome of sport and that’s where it’s all just about the sport. But with professional sports it’s about entertainment. It’s about making money”
if she thinks the Olympics is this pure representation of sports and that it has nothing to do with money she is beyond delusional.
hell yeah
part of the pressure Michael Phelps had (aside from breaking Spitz’s record) was that he was projected to make well over 8 figures through future endorsements for his gold medals.
I’d still totally bone her.
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by phantom5691 on Feb 1, 2012 4:59 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I love the Olympics. I love soccer. I’d be happy if my kids participated in either.
But I don’t think for a minute that all is well in either world.
Of course, I’m a journalist. Think I don’t know how much crap there is in my chosen field? Maybe I could quit and go to law school, because the legal system is absolutely perfect. Or be a teacher, because there’s nothing to complain about there. Or I’ll become a financial consultant and sell sheer crap to other people. Or go back to my first love, music, where I’ll never be screwed by a record company or promoter.
Seriously — I’d love to know what it is everyone in here does or attempts that is populated by perfect people. This is the real world, folks.
by Beau Dure on Feb 1, 2012 6:14 PM EST reply actions 5 recs
Same feeling
but lacked the words to express it. A rec for you.
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It just occurred to me
Do any women read Bloody Elbow?
Probably not, but if so I apologize on behalf of myself and all these other assbags.
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yep, we do
but I think most of us have a reasonable expectation that a large percentage of any sports site is going to be full of neanderthals.
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by mollcutpurse on Feb 1, 2012 6:31 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Hey!
I shall not be insulted. Epecially on the internet. Especially by a woman!
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Compared to other MMA sites
Even fellow ones on SBNation, the chauvinism here is generally pretty tame.
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by Patrick Wyman on Feb 1, 2012 9:09 PM EST up reply actions
Hello female life-form on BE
don’t forget virgins. Neanderthals and virgins.
I recently quit drinking carbonated beverages.
no, the virgins are on reddit
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This is hilarious
People will complain on and on and try to rip Dana apart for giving a nobody 6k+ 6k. But an olympic medalist representing our country on the international stage is petty for far worse treatment?
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by Genki Sudo's Choreographer on Feb 1, 2012 9:44 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
But… She is a woman. But… She competes in WMMA. But… She sounds like Chael Sonnen or Nick Diaz. But… She knew what she was getting into regardless of how stupid it still is. But… Insert whatever idiotic defense in here.
People are dumb.
by Empty Thoughts on Feb 1, 2012 10:44 PM EST up reply actions
I recently quit drinking carbonated beverages.
by mannfretti on Feb 1, 2012 11:35 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
if you compete in the olympics at anything other than womens gymnastics or track and field sprints, and you think you are going to get paid, then you are a fool.
Unless you happen to be organizing those sports of course.
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by GreyedOut on Feb 2, 2012 2:24 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
harsh but true it sounds like.
anyone who knows anything about usa judo knows that m’f*cker is corrupt as hell.
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