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Picture this – a title fight where both competitors are undefeated in a combined 19 fights.
The challenger Cat Zigano is the biggest threat the champion will face as her skillet, power and determination to will at all costs attitude will be hard to beat.
The champion Ronda Rousey has won every single bout in her MMA/UFC career and is the female-face of the MMA globally. The two combatants stand across from each other waiting for the bell to ring and the fight to begin. Ding!
Then, 14 seconds later it is all over. Ronda Rousey wins her 11th-straight fight with a arm-bar submission to remain the UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion.
You did read that right: 14 seconds! It was the fastest end to a Championship fight in the UFC ever, including all male championship bouts.
How is this for another stat: Rousey has won every single professional MMA bout in the first round except for one! That is plain scary.
What makes things worse for any woman thinking of taking Rousey on in the Octagon is that Rousey is only 28 and has years of performances at the top-level left in her. Good luck to anyone who wants to take her on.
When you look at the way Rousey finishes her opponents in quick time with flawless technique it is difficult not to think that you have seen performances like these before from a person who was a destroyer of all those who stood in front of them at a similar age. His name was ‘Iron’ Mike Tyson.
Tyson had the nickname of the ‘Baddest Man On The Planet’ and at the age of 28 had a record of 42-1, 21 of those fights ending in the first round. I shudder at the thought of standing in the same ring as Tyson knowing in less than three minutes I would be on my back staring at the lights, recovering consciousness from a knockout blow.
Both these fighters in their prime give their opponents no chance whatsoever to set the tone of the fight and get on the front foot.
Tyson was an animal and tore apart anyone who was dumb enough to stand in front of him (except Buster Douglas of course). Rousey is a fighter that has no hesitation to go toe-to-to with her opponent but due to her extensive judo background (she was an Olympic medallist in the discipline) uses grappling and throws to suppress their attacks.
And once she is on your back your chances of winning are finished as she slaps her ligament snapping submission holds on and the only option you have is to tap out.
Rousey is a machine and she makes me want to watch female MMA fights, something I would never have dreamed doing a couple of years ago. What she is doing for MMA and the UFC right now is what Tyson did for boxing during the 1980s and 1990s.
So as Cat Zigano watches the 14 second video of her fight with Rousey and thinks about ‘what could have been’ she needs to be a realist: there is no-one that will beat Rousey this year and she could go undefeated throughout 2016 as well.
Rousey is just that good – and unlike Tyson she is good to look at as well.
If you saw the fight and have a comment on Ronda Rousey or the comparison between Tyson and herself, what did you think? How long will we continue to see this Tyson-like dominance from Rousey?
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