It’s true, Kayla Harrison’s first-round armbar finish of Brittney Elkin at PFL 2 on Thursday night called to mind a certain judoka who discovered a lucrative second life in the cage. The big difference is that when Ronda Rousey tapped poor Ediane Gomes out there in Tarzana, half her audience didn’t even know what the hell a judoka even was — is it like being a taekwondokü? — and plenty gawked at women’s MMA as a kind of experimental abomination.
In other words, comparing anybody to Rousey, the game-changer, is like comparing the difference between a light bulb and electricity.