As the old Mike Tyson quote goes, everyone has a plan until the get punched in the mouth. Ronda Rousey found that out the hard way during her first UFC loss. Back in 2015, Rousey was arguably competing with Conor McGregor as the biggest star in UFC and had already started crossing over into films and television.
She had so much swagger with the way she decimated her competition that UFC CEO Dana White and veteran UFC color commentator Joe Rogan told anyone who would listen that Rousey could dispatch undefeated boxer Floyd Mayweather if he was ever crazy enough to try MMA. But the unbeatable aura around Rousey crashed down in dramatic fashion with her brutal knockout loss to Holly Holm courtesy of a head kick that reverberated around the combat sports world. Rousey went from UFC’s darling to an overrated charlatan thanks to one bad night at the office, and truth be told, she doesn’t remember much of it.
During a recent Q&A promoting her latest autobiography titled Our Fight , Rousey addressed her specific process and what went wrong against Holm. As it turns out, Rousey didn’t really get to test out plan A or plan B after Holm punched her in the mouth to start the fight. “The Holm fight, I didn’t really get to start my process because I literally just got hit right away, and it knocked loose all my bottom teeth and I was out on my feet from the very beginning,” Rousey said.
“So there wasn’t like that same kind of process of what I usually have. “My process wa.