Ronda Rousey had the UFC women’s bantamweight belt bestowed upon her and she defended it twice before hitting an extraordinary groove. Rousey beat Olympic silver medalist Sara McMann in 1:06; that’s incredible. Then she beat Alexis Davis, Cat Zingano, and Bethe Correia in a combined 1:04; that’s once in an ever. In 2015, Business Insider magazine rightly named her the most dominant athlete on the planet.

Then Rousey lost her belt to Holly Holm, and lost her comeback to new champion Amanda Nunes. In fact, in her last fight she kind of got Ronda Rouseyed, losing the title shot in just 48 seconds.

UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier spoke recently to TMZ Sports and said the sport had not passed her by, but it had passed by her greatness.

Can she be the person that she was a couple of years ago? I don’t believe so,” said Cormier, as transcribed by Jed Meshew for MMA Fighting. “This game has evolved to a point that it would be very difficult, especially if your game is limited. Again, I love Ronda, but her boxing doesn’t seem to have improved. She doesn’t kick – I don’t think she’s really kicked – so to have to go out there and really throw somebody down and grapple with them, I don’t know if that works anymore. I think that Amanda Nunes and Julianna Pena and Valentina Shevchenko … they’ve showed how much this level has gone up in female fighting in a very short period of time.

Can she go in there and win some fights? Yes. Can she beat women in 10 seconds, 19 seconds, 38 seconds? I think those days are gone. That’s not happening anymore, everybody’s too well-rounded.

Cormier’s analysis may be irrelevant in any case, as there is little indication Rousey will ever fight again to find where her skill set places her in the division. She lives modestly and made many, many millions, and doesn’t have to.