Is Ronda Rousey rewriting history? ‘When I was competing before, there were no coaches with MMA experience’
She was also “a head shorter than all those chicks” she was fighting.
LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 28: Ronda Rousey and Edmond Taverdyan pose for a post fight portrait during the UFC 184 event at Staples Center on February 28, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Mike Roach/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images) | Zuffa LLC via Getty Images When it comes to blaming her old coach, Ronda Rousey is several years late to the party . Despite warnings from her own mom , the Olympian stuck with head coach Edmond Tarverdyan for the majority of her professional MMA career, which seemed like the right call when the former UFC bantamweight champion was steamrolling the competition at 135 pounds .
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. But then came back-to-back losses to Holly Holm and Amanda Nunes , fights that saw Rousey get completely dominated on the feet. Suddenly, all that talk about gold medals and magazine covers sounded as crazy to fans as it did to the last fighter to knock her out .
Expect a new and improved “Rowdy” when Rousey returns to competition on May 16 . “I’m definitely better than I’ve ever been and it just really helps so much that the landscape of the sport has changed,” Rousey said on MVP Uncut . “People forgot that when I was competing before, there were no coaches with MMA experience.
There was no one with MMA experience with coaching experience and so usually, the person with the most MMA experience on the team was the fighter, and everybody else had their own separate discipline, and it was up to the fighters themselves, trying to piece things together. Now, finally with this camp, I have help with that. ” Concussions walked so that coaches could run.