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For Joanna Jedrzejczyk, psyching opponents out is part of what psyches people up

Related Topics: Ronda Rousey, psyche

A day before UFC 193, when the ceremonial weigh-ins still doubled as the official weigh-ins, Ronda Rousey came a little unhinged when she faced off with Holly Holm. She made an aggressive approach from the scale, latched onto Holm’s right arm (which was just arriving at duke pose), and forced it toward her own chin, giving the effect of scuffle. At least from Rousey’s side of things. From Holm’s, it was different. She stood there with a stone-face, stoical, burning through Rousey as if she weren’t a global sensation at all, but a thing to be destroyed.