Rousey: It’s been ingrained in me to finish fights quickly
Speaking to Mike and Mike in the morning yesterday, Ronda Rousey talked about how she has been able to finish so many of her opponents very quickly.
Speaking to Mike and Mike in the morning yesterday, Ronda Rousey talked about how she has been able to finish so many of her opponents very quickly:
As dominant as Rousey has been since joining the UFC, the way she overwhelms opponents in the opening seconds of a fight isn’t a mistake.
It’s something that’s been ingrained in her head since she learned how to do judo from her mother, who taught her the secret to beating opponents before they know what hit them.
“When I did judo as a kid, my mom told me the most common time to catch somebody is the first second of the match,” Rousey said on “Mike and Mike in the Morning.” “So when I was a little kid from like 11 on, I would always try a throw right after the bell so I had a lot of matches that were in the first 10 or 20 seconds, because that’s when the person is most unprepared.”
Most fighters will take at least the first 30 seconds to settle into a rhythm before looking for an opening to expose against an opponent.
Not Rousey.
She comes hard charging across the Octagon like a bull, and it’s up to her opponents to either avoid her or hope to find a way to stop her. In 12 fights thus far during her MMA career, no one has figured it out.
“It’s just been drilled into my brain since I was a little kid to not have that feeling-out period,” Rousey said. “To be good at what other people are bad at.”