Ronda Rousey’s mother still hates her coach. Dr. AnnMaria De Mars recently spoke to Submission Radio and made it clear that she hopes her daughter will move on from her “egomaniac fraud” coach Edmond Tarverdyan.
“I predicted it in advance,” De Mars said of Rousey’s knockout loss. “Ronda trained with an idiot. She trained with an idiot and a fraud. I would be shocked to find out that guy has any record at all. As far as I know, I saw him fight once and he fought somebody that had a record of like 6-20 and won on a split decision. The guy is a fraud. Ronda has a lot of talent. She came into that gym with a very strong background of training at the Olympic level and it carried her a long way.
“She needs to get away from some egomaniac fraud and be herself. Ronda as herself can beat anybody on the planet. I’m sad about it but you become an adult and make decisions. Sometimes you make mistakes and hopefully you learn from them.”
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De Mars pointed out that she’s not just another fighter’s mom, she’s actually a former world champion in judo. She joins several other critics in not being impressed by Tarverdyan’s coaching of Rousey during her fight against Holly Holm.
“The difference between me and these other fighters’ moms is that I actually was a world champion,” said De Mars. “I didn’t just make it up and put it on my website. I actually really did compete for 14 years. So when someone is talking about coaching I know if it’s bulls**t and this guy is a complete fraud. It didn’t surprise me for a second.
“I don’t claim to know everything but I know what it takes to win a world championship. I know what good coaching is. I told Ronda more than once, ‘I know what training to beat the world looks like and this isn’t it.'”
De Mars says her daughter has all the talent to defeat Holm in a rematch, but that she needs new coaches to pull it off.
“If she changes gyms she could go dramatically further,” said De Mars. “Even if she was with a good coach I think going to a different place would really improve her. When you’re with someone who wants to keep you from going to other places, that’s a bad coach that doesn’t have your best interests at heart.
Rousey is expected to have a rematch with Holm later this year.
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