Ronda Rousey’s Coach Says “She Just Got Caught” By Holly Holm

Here are the key quotes:

• On a Rousey comeback: “I don’t see it in July at this point. Ronda did three fights last year. I think she deserves time off.”
• On what the loss did to him: “It was the biggest loss of my career. You know you won’t ever want that to happen again. So what that means is, I’ve got to work harder. Every little thing I’ve got to be honest with and make sure that we’re ready to go.”
• On criticism of Rousey’s striking: “Yeah there was a lot of criticism afterwards about adding a boxing coach. MMA is not a boxing game, but Ronda got caught, and we will be taking advice from boxing trainers.”
• On changes to Rousey’s training: “We’re not going to sit here and change everything that we’ve done, we’ve done stuff that I think is working, it’s been great. We’re not going to have something so much different for Ronda…It’s a fight, Ronda got caught with a shot, and it was a little bit of a roller coaster from there.”
• On the Holm fight itself: “But this fight, she just got caught from the beginning, and everything was not in our favor. So what I’m trying to say is, afterwards it’s easy to criticize. It’s easy to say, ‘Hey you could have done this,’ and as a trainer I know we can do better. So I’m not going to say that we had the best camp. We will learn from it, and she will learn from it.”

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