Ronda Rousey doesn’t appear to have worked on her striking defense much over the past 13 months.
Returning to the UFC 13 months after her stunning, one-sided knockout loss to Holly Holm, Rousey was absolutely picked apart by Brazil’s Amanda Nunes at UFC 207 on Friday night.
Nunes, a Miami native by way of Brazil, steamrolled Rousey with a blistering and savage striking attack, needing just 48 seconds to retain the UFC women’s bantamweight title at Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena.
Rousey, who shut out all public obligations in the leadup to the bout, never had a chance to put her Olympic-medalist judo on display.