UFC middleweight Tim Kennedy blames poor coaching for Ronda Rousey’s UFC 193 loss to Holly Holm. On 1300 AM The Zone, Kennedy said Rousey needs to ditch her current head trainer Edmond Tarverdyan.
“There’s coaching, and then there’s whatever happened with Ronda. I don’t want to diminish that word and call it coaching because that’s not what happened in Ronda’s corner,” said Kennedy. “You definitely have to adjust what you’re telling your fighter depending who they are. You have to know who they are. None of us know Ronda well enough to second guess what her coach was doing. Maybe he was doing the right thing? Maybe he was giving her the confidence she needed? Maybe she’s someone who needs to operate in confidence? That’s just ludicrous, to me, though.”
“Ronda had the brakes beaten off her for four and a half minutes. Her face is bloody, her nose and lip are bleeding and then you have her coach saying, ‘Hey, do the same thing?’ Not even like, ‘Stick to the game plan. Change levels. Cut an angle and shoot a double leg. Push her up against the fence.’ Anything! ‘Keep getting punched more.’”
Rousey is currently taking time off from MMA, and is rumored to fight Holm again in mid-2016.
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