Tarverdyan: Cat fights desperately, and dangerously
Edmond Tarverdyan: “Does she think? Does she set it up the way it’s supposed to be? Is she an intelligent fighter? I would say not that. But she is very dangerous.”
Ronda Rousey’s coach Edmond Tarverdyan gets an outsized share of guff on The UnderGround, but consider this.
Rousey’s last two fights, her coach didn’t just predict that she would win, he predicted how she would win. When an overhand right took out Alexis Davis, Edmond Taverdyan called it. And when Rousey stopped Sara McMann with a liver shot, the coach called that too.
In a sport where anything can happen, that is extraordinary.
However, this time, if he knows, he’s not saying.
“I’m not gonna tell anybody what happens,” said Tarverdyan to Marc Raimondi for MMAFighting.com. “Because I want everybody to come and watch what her skills are because she has a surprise for everybody. She has some new tricks.”
Tarverdyan also expressed respect for Zingano.
“Definitely, she’s undefeated,” he said. “Her record shows she’s undefeated and she knows how to win. If your record is 8-0, 9-0, whatever it is, that means she knows how to win.”
Tarverdyan also astutely described Zingano’s fighting style as both dangerous and desperate.
“Desperate fighter, I would say,” said Teverdyan. “One word would be desperate. She’s always looking for that win and she just all of a sudden, she walks in there and throws a flying knee or a kick. Everything she does, she’s desperate for it. When people are losing a little bit and they want to do something to get that win at the end to survive in there and get that victory, I feel like she does that every second. So that makes her a bit dangerous.”
“She just somehow wants to win. Does she think? Does she set it up the way it’s supposed to be? Is she an intelligent fighter? I would say not that. But she is very dangerous.”
“She’s walking in there so emotional and that could be a reason why she’s a little different in the first round. She gets those down and becomes a bit normal, back to what she’s good at. That’s why she performs better in the second and third round. It’s pretty cool that she has that comeback spirit. But why it’s like that, it’s their job to work on that and it doesn’t really matter for us. You can be the best in the first round and Ronda is still gonna get the best of you.”
UFC bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey fights Cat Zingano Saturday night in the main event of UFC 184.