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GrahamB wrote:That looks like zumba

cloudz wrote:

fubo wrote: I don't think she was out classed

For her sake, I'd hate to see the fight where you think she is outclassed.

Fubo wrote:

cloudz wrote:

fubo wrote: I don't think she was out classed

For her sake, I'd hate to see the fight where you think she is outclassed.

I didn't say she was a great boxer. Her main strength is her throwing and grappling experience with enough striking to make those things work. She just didn't set up the fight in the way the played to her opponents strengths. That doesn't mean she was out classed… It's means that she let her opponent implement her game through arrogance and lack of training. When I think of the "class" of an MMA fighter, I don't use any single attribute as the defining characteristic, but the whole.

She got hit with a punch 30 seconds into the fight that left her totally woozy.
Wasn't thinking clearly.

She kept telling herself everything will be okay if she kept fighting.

Training by fighting men before the Marines helped me to be a better fighter against women of my own weight and rank. But women are at a disadvantage fighting men, especially those that actually want to capture or kill them.

RhondaRouseyEven the toughest female fighter in the world, UFC Bantamweight champion Rhonda Rousey said as much when the issue came up of fighting Fallon Fox,

formerly a man, citing “the bone structure, the muscular structure of a man [after puberty]. There’s no ‘undo’ button for that.”

Tamikka Brents, a female who actually did fight Fox, said, “I’ve never felt so overpowered ever in my life and I am an abnormally strong female in my own right.” To put females at the front where they are much more likely to have to engage in hand to hand combat with men is barbaric, not empowering to women.

When I joined, I wanted to go to the front. Being outside the wire the reality of having to fight in close contact looms large, and the enemy we were facing then seems somewhat docile compared to ISIS today. There was a chance I would face them.

In the combat roles, it’s not a chance, it’s probable, and today’s enemy uses meth. Fighting ISIS on meth hand-to-hand. It’s every girl’s dream, right?

“I don’t think that somebody who used to be a man and became a woman should be able to fight another woman.” Rousey has said of Fox,

“She can try hormones, chop her pecker off, but it’s still the same bone structure a man has. It’s an advantage. I don’t think it’s fair.” Despite this hostility, Fox has persisted in her efforts to fight in the UFC, citing Olympic committee rules and the compelling medical evidence that shows transgender athletes have no significant competitive advantage.