08-04-2015, 12:57 PM
(08-04-2015, 11:53 AM)yellowxdiscipline Wrote: Ronda moved to Bantam to face Meisha Tate, and she wasn't the number one at the time when she made the move. There wasn't even a mumble about the Rousey/Cyborg fight until a year after Ronda had won the Bantamweight title from Tate. Not to mention that the freaking Featherweight title was vacated because of Cyborgs positive test and she was suspended............ So how exactly was Ronda supposed to fight her at that time? After Cyborgs ban she chose to stay at 145 and fight with another promotion rather then lose the weight and follow the herd to UFC. UFC made the call to nix the 145 division because there was simply more talent in the 135 class. I never denied they were in the same promotion, the timeline however never dictated a chance for them to meet up. This wasn't because one fighter was ducking the other. A vacated title, then a promotion takeover lead the path to where we are now. Ronda never tested positive and got a year long ban, she chose to stay with the Strikeforce/UFC promotion and stay at Bantanweight. When Strikeforce was bought out by UFC it was already common knowledge that they were only keeping one female weight division initially. Dana made that pretty clear. Your claim that Rousey was dodging Cyborg is just bogus.
Did Dana tell you that?
Facts:
Ronda was in the same promotion as Cyborg.
Ronda was in the same weight class as Cyborg.
Ronda moved down to a lower weight class.
Cyborg has problems cutting weight (complete speculation on your part that it's due to juicing). Ronda knows this about Cyborg, it's widely known that she walks around heavy and has a tough enough time cutting to 145.
Sometime after winning a belt at a lower weight class, she publicly brought up Cyborg and said that the fight MUST take place at 135 and she won't fight her at 145.
Therefore, my logical conclusion is that Ronda ducked Cyborg. I don't see how you can really spin it any other way. Both have proven they can fight at 145, Ronda refuses to fight Cyborg unless it's at a weight that Cyborg either can't make or will have trouble transitioning to.
It would be like a natural middleweight calling out a guy that's a bigger LHW knowing that he'd have an almost impossible time making the cut to 185. If you side with Dana and Ronda on this one, that's on your whacked UFC-hugger logic.
Is Cyborg the one that should come to Ronda now if she wants the fight? Sure. But to claim Ronda never ducked her to begin with is asinine.
