Ronda Rousey has revealed how she planned to beat Holly Holm.
The UFC bantamweight appeared clueless when she clashed with Holm in November 2015, but that was because she was suffering from concussion symptoms.
Ultimately, she got knocked out by a head kick in the second round.
After 13 months on the sidelines, Rousey returned to the Octagon but was knocked out by Amanda Nunes in 48 seconds before announcing her retirement.
‘Rowdy’ had planned to press Holm against the fence and use her Olympic-level judo skills to get the fight to the floor where she could lock up a submission.
As Mike Tyson once said, ‘Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face’, and Rousey found that out the hard way at UFC 193.
During a recent Q&A promoting her autobiography ‘Our Fight’, the 37-year-old talked about being out on her feet and unable to function properly after just one punch from Holm.
“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 was usually, I would plan out the first exchange, and everything from then on out would be an improvisation, within the range of what I trained for specifically for that person.”
“For Holm, what we trained a lot [was] doing lateral, side-to-side movement to herd her towards the cage. When I was basically out on my feet, I couldn’t see distance.
“There’s no depth perception when you have a bad concussion. I was completely unable to carry that out and even think coherently. I wasn’t able to operate the way that I usually do.”
Rousey recently revealed she has a long history of concussion issues.
An accident at home meant she wasn’t fit to fight ‘The Preacher’s Daughter’, but Rousey decided to press ahead to help set a UFC attendance record.
“Before that fight [against Holm], I literally slipped down the stairs and knocked myself out,” she told talkSPORT MMA.
“And that was definitely a much more severe concussion, much closer to the fight than I’d ever dealt with before.
“But Robbie Lawler had already pulled out of that card [UFC 193] and I had heard that they were trying to break an attendance record.
“I couldn’t pull out and leave Dana [White] hanging like that.
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