Former UFC bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey’s team is blamed for putting the brakes on the Riverside native’s career in 2015, with veteran trainer Louis Taylor comparing her talent to a “Lamborghini,” which the team ultimately “destroyed. “
Rousey, the promotion’s first bantamweight champion after winning gold in the now-defunct Strikeforce promotion, ended her decorated career in combined martial arts after back-to-back knockout losses to Amanda Nunes and Holly Holm in 2015 and 2016, respectively.
Enjoying a very good unbeaten streak until her name fight with Holm in Australia, Rousey’s dominant reign came to an end with a savage second-round knockout loss, before returning the following year in a shock first-round TKO loss to the aforementioned Brazilian. star, Nunes.
Revealing a grim history of neurological issues and back-to-back concussions sustained her tenure in the UFC, limiting her ability to devote herself to fighters, and ultimately attributed to her decision to end her career, Rousey’s trainers have provided her with no benefit. The long term, according to Taylor, discussed above.
“Her training (Ronda Rousey) is, she would slap all of her training staff, like, my brother, they had a Lamborgini and they just destroyed it,” Taylor said during an appearance on the Money, Loyalty, Legacy podcast. Know again, if you’re a coach, and Belal (Muhammaed) will tell you too, I’m a smart friend, because I’m the one who’s going to tell you that you’re screwing up, you know what I’m saying?I’m saying?
“There’s no fight, win or lose, where I think you did a wonderful job,” Taylor explained. “Not because I’m here to look for mistakes, I’m here to look for what the next coach is for. (H/T MMA News)
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