Where were Ronda Rousey's leg kicks?

I was just watching a bunch of sports talking heads explain why Ronda Rousey lost to Holly Holm via KO.

Their explanations all sounded convincing  until they showed some video clips of the fight. And that's when I realized that they missed the essence of Ronda's loss big time.

In all of the video clips shown, I did not see Ronda throw even a single leg kick (Holly actually managed to sneak in a few). Yes, you heard that right. Not a single one.  And she is up against a boxer. Fighters who are not used to being struck below the belt. 

Instead, Ronda was her usual self, trying to swarm her opponent with a flurry of headhunting haymakers, or closing the distance to enable her to deploy her superior submission skills.

While this strategy has worked wonders for her in the past against non-boxer opponents, this time around, she was facing a full-pledged boxer. Yet, amazingly, her Coaching Team appears to have failed miserably to guide and train her to make the adjustment.

So poor Ronda ended up eating counterpunches from Holly all night.  While Holly deftly evaded with superior footwork all her desperate and sometimes clumsy attempts to land a haymaker or close the distance and grapple.

To add insult to injury, it was not even a punch which put an end to Ronda's unbeaten winning streak. It was a good old-fashioned roundhouse kick.

If the best female MMA fighter in the world gets knocked-out by a kick from a boxer, that speaks volumes about the strategic capabilities of her Coaching Team.

So Ronda. Next time you tangle with Holly Holm, make sure that you neutralize that superior footwork first. And the only way to do that is through leg kicks. Lots of them.  

Once those legs get numbed, that's the time you move in for the kill.

And please take a second look at your Coaching Team. If they missed a basic strategy like that in a crucial fight, this will not be the last time they will fail you.

As to your boxing skills, I'm sure you have heard of the boxing coach who calls himself... Freddie Roach...

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