Ronda Rousey News

Chris Taylor - January 9, 2017

Former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey returned to the octagon at last month’s UFC 207 event in Las Vegas for the first time since her shocking UFC 193 knockout loss to Holly Holm. Unfortunately for fans of “Rowdy”, the fight with Nunes did not go her way at all as she suffered a quick 48-second TKO loss at the hands of “The Lioness”.

Russell Ess - January 9, 2017

The future of Ronda Rousey is still up in the air after losing for the second time in her professional mixed martial arts career, being devastated by Amanda Nunes at UFC 207 in December. Many wonder if the once-dominant former UFC women’s bantamweight champion will ever fight in the Octagon again or if she will solely look on to other avenues of entertainment.

Tom Taylor - January 8, 2017

Ben Rothwell is known for telling it like it is. If there’s something on the hulking heavyweight’s mind, he tends to say it. In a recent interview with Sirius XM Fight Club, Rothwell continued his habit of speaking his mind, this time giving his take on Ronda Rousey‘s recent comeback, which was spoiled in just 48 seconds by reigning bantamweight queen Amanda Nunes.

Tom Taylor - January 8, 2017

UFC 207 was big business for the UFC. Early estimates show that the stacked card did approximately 1.1 million pay-per-view buys. The card, which occurred on December 30 of 2016, was headlined by a women’s bantamweight title fight between returning former champion Ronda Rousey, and reigning divisional queen Amanda Nunes. Nunes won this fight in the biggest way possible, stopping her foe with punches in a mere 48 seconds.

bjpenndotcom - January 7, 2017

While many members of the MMA community believe that it is time for former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey to retire following lopsided back to back losses to Holly Holm and Amanda Nunes, former UFC light heavyweight kingpin Jon Jones believes that it would be good to see Rousey return to the Octagon to defend her legacy.

bjpenndotcom - January 6, 2017

Since Ronda Rousey’s UFC 207 loss to Amanda Nunes last week to close out 2016, the MMA community has been torn between supporting Ronda Rousey at a low point, and criticizing the former champ for being ill prepared for her scrap with Amanda Nunes. While there has been a tremendous outpouring of support for Rousey in the time since the fight, which included Floyd Mayweather Sr. and his brother Jeff Mayweather offering to train Rousey, her coach, Edmond Tarverdyan has been the subject of much criticism.

bjpenndotcom - January 6, 2017

Leading up to Ronda Rousey’s highly anticipated return to the Octagon at UFC 207, there was much controversy as to Rousey’s media blackout leading up to the fight. While Rousey, who normally does quite a bit of promo leading up to her fights, was completely silent, the MMA community was left to speculate as to her mindset going into her return after taking a year off following the first defeat of her career over a year prior.

bjpenndotcom - January 6, 2017

In one of the most surprising MMA stories in recent memories, news has now surfaced that during her training camp leading up to UFC 207, former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey actually had training partner and fellow women’s bantamweight Raquel Pennington sign a non-disclosure agreement. Essentially, what this means is that while Rousey and Pennington trained together for Rousey’s highly anticipated UFC 207 return to the Octagon against Amanda Nunes, Pennington can’t legally speak about the nature of the training sessions, or anything that occurred in them.

bjpenndotcom - January 6, 2017

Leading up to the highly anticipated return of Ronda Rousey to close out 2016, many were questioning whether fight fans would see a different Rousey than they did in her UFC 193 loss to Holly Holm. While the expectations were that Rousey would return to the Octagon with improved striking, when she stepped into the Octagon with Amanda Nunes at UFC 207, it didn’t take long for Rousey to show fight fans that her striking game had not developed enough to compete with an elite level striker like Nunes. Just 48 seconds into the fight, referee Herb Dean was forced to stop the bout due to Rousey being out on her feet.

Tom Taylor - January 6, 2017

Ronda Rousey coach Edmond Tarverdyan continues to find himself in the firing line, taking the brunt of the blame for his fighter’s failed comeback. This comeback, which occurred in the main event of UFC 207, saw Rousey return from an absence of more than a year to be knocked out in just 48 seconds by reigning bantamweight queen Amanda Nunes. The reason that Tarverdyan is receiving so much flack for Rousey’s UFC 207 performance is that Rousey showed almost nothing in the way of improvement between her shocking 2015 knockout loss to Holly Holm and her recent loss to Nunes. While this is of course partially her fault, it is the job of a coach to ensure their fighters are always evolving, and Tarverdyan has clearly failed abysmally in this department when it comes to Rousey. This fact, when paired with the recent records of Tarverdyan’s other high-profile fighters, such as UFC heavyweight Travis Browne, has resulted in his being roasted by many members of the MMA community.

Russell Ess - January 5, 2017

Herb Dean was the referee for the UFC 207 main event championship fight between Amanda Nunes and Ronda Rousey.

bjpenndotcom - January 5, 2017

Last month at UFC 207, former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey made her highly anticipated return to the Octagon over a year after suffering the first defeat of her career at UFC 193 to Holly Holm. Leading up to Rousey’s highly anticipated return fight against Holly Holm, Rousey was the focus of the UFC’s promos for the event. While that didn’t sit too well with many members of the MMA community, come fight night Amanda Nunes all eyes were on Amanda Nunes as she destroyed Rousey over the course of 48 seconds before referee Herb Dean finally stopped the fight.

bjpenndotcom - January 5, 2017

When Ronda Rousey lost to Holly Holm at UFC 193 back in November of 2015, a lot of fingers were pointed in regards to who should shoulder the blame for Rousey’s loss. With this, many fingers ended up pointed at Rousey’s head coach, Edmond Tarverdyan, who many believe gave Rousey a false sense of security in her striking leading up to the fight with arguably the best striker in the women’s division, Holly Holm. Following the loss, several members of the combat sports community, including Floyd Mayweather, offered to train Rousey on her boxing. Despite that, when it was announced that Rousey would be returning to the Octagon at UFC 207 to fight Amanda Nunes, Ronda Rousey returned to Glendale Fighting Club to train under Edmond Tarverdyan.

Russell Ess - January 4, 2017

Much of the criticism surrounding former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey and her pair of losses are being aimed at her coach, Edmond Tarverdyan. Rousey’s own mother, Olympic judo gold medalist AnnMaria De Mars has made it loud and clear with her disapproval for Tarverdyan.

Russell Ess - January 4, 2017

https://youtu.be/2Oo_VmBb_Z4 When you are as big of a star as former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey, you will be both praised and criticized by fellow fighters and even celebrities. In this particular case, pop star singer Justin Bieber was involved sending a mean tweet following Rousey’s UFC 207 loss to champion Amanda Nunes.

Tom Taylor - January 4, 2017

Last Friday, in the main event of UFC 207, former women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey stepped into the Octagon for the first time since she was flattened by a Holly Holm head kick more than a year ago. She made her long awaited return against the division’s reigning queen, brick-fisted Brazilian Amanda Nunes.

Russell Ess - January 3, 2017

Michael “Venom” Page isn’t letting his foot off the gas pedal following Ronda Rousey’s devastating UFC 207 loss to Amanda Nunes. The flashy Bellator fighter took to social media the day after UFC 207 where he made a song and dance mocking Rousey getting punched in the face with his “Do the Rousey” video. Page went as far as to ask fans to do their best version of the dance and created a hashtag campaign for it all.

bjpenndotcom - January 3, 2017

This past weekend at UFC 207, former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey made her return to the Octagon for the first time since suffering the first loss of her career at the hands of Holly Holm over a year ago. Unfortunately for Rousey, her return didn’t go as planned. While leading up to the fight, the former champ stated that she needed to return to the Octagon and avenge the first loss of her career and reclaim the women’s bantamweight championship, Amanda Nunes ended those hopes as she picked up a dominant 48 second knockout win.