Pristine_Condition
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You said Holly Holm has been using punches to set up kicks. I said she's doing the opposite of that in her UFC fights. I don't see how that's a hard translation. What I'm saying is she's been using the kicks to set up her punches and to set up her distance. Which is the opposite of what you say she's doing.
As dream also noticed and mentioned in his post, (and dream has a good eye for this) Holm isn't really using the jab as you'd expect a high-level boxer to. Her jab has become way secondary to her long-range kicks for controlling distance in all her UFC fights so far, which is puzzling.
You said you did some boxing training, so you should be able to understand technically why this is such a problem (as noted in my A,B,C list of reasons. But more technically for you as an ex-boxer, you should recognize she's throwing a huge amount of those follow-up punches when she finally does get in actual striking distance with her hands off the front foot rather than having the weight transfer slotted correctly from back-to front, way too often. And almost everything has to come right off the center line, because all her forward momentum just to get in range has already been established. As an ex-boxer, you should see this in her UFC fights and see how problematic it is. She's basically ceding her advantage by forcing herself to throw punches outside the base of good classic boxing technique.
See, that's the thing with coming in with just a .gif and no context, and talking shit about an athlete's workout.
I've seen the entire video. As I said, all she was doing was just loosening/warming up her muscles. Not seriously shadow boxing. In her workouts, she usually shadow boxes with the UFC gloves on if she's shadow boxing for a considerable amount of time. Which makes sense. You want that weight on your hands. When she switches to sparing, heavy bag/heavy pad work, she usually switches to heavier sparring gloves.
Your question about the wraps can also be answered easily by watching her workout videos as well.
There's a number of MMA media articles and videos that talk about Ronda's hand wrapping regimen. She quite famously has small hands, but very rarely has suffered hand injuries. (The most notable exception being the Alexis Davis fight injury.) Here's one such video about her hand wraps:
https://youtu.be/Avy6hFCibQk
Edmund wraps her hands for every MMA training session with full gauze and tape, which is considered unusual. (1:43 in the video)
It takes about 15 minutes to do these wraps, so of course they have to be done before the training session.
There are numerous training videos of Rousey doing the grappling portion of her MMA training day with wraps.
Here's one: https://youtu.be/GgpJ4TVIg6c
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Really, Rousey's hands aren't that bad at all. Not nearly bad enough for a bunch of keyboard warriors to be criticizing her and using cherry-picked, out-of-context .gifs. at least.
All you guys who want to criticize...PLEASE, go to a boxing gym, stand in front of a double-ended bag, and videotape yourself punching it. If you look better than this:
https://youtu.be/GgpJ4TVIg6c?t=1113
(from 18:33 in the video)
...then by all means, talk about how shitty her hands are.
