Poll: Should Ronda Rousey Dump Edmond Tarverdyan & Return?

Poll: Should Ronda Rousey Dump Edmond Tarverdyan & Return?

By Mike Drahota -
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The MMA world is in disarray following Ronda Rousey’s 48-second TKO loss to Amanda Nunes (highlights here) in the main event of last night’s (Fri., December 30, 2017) UFC 207 from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, her second straight stoppage loss.

Immediately after the fight, many speculated we had seen the last of Rousey inside the Octagon and many more suggested she should outright retire.

Most believe Rousey’s recent failures can be mostly attributed to her longtime coach Edmond Tarverdyan, who took an Olympic medalist judoka and tried to make her into a boxer facing the most dangerous female strikers in the world. Tarverdyan has been raked over the coals by nearly everyone, most notably by Rousey’s own mother and also by Nunes after the fight. ‘Rowdy’ seemed to have fallen in love with her hands when she knocked out Bethe Correia to rousing applause at 2015’s UFC 190, but the tables have clearly turned and it’s tough to decipher if her problems could even be fixed.

However, Rousey’s talent didn’t just disappear, and while she’s got nothing left to prove, the ultra-competitive grappler most likely want to go out like she has after the dust settles. If she does ultimately decide to fighting, there’s little doubt she has to dump Tarverdyan and reinvent herself at a new camp, where she could have a possibility at success. She may just be done fighting, however.

What do you think?

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  • Bulgarian Squat

    I don’t think it was much his problem, ronda lost that fight long before it started

  • aFriendlyAgenda

    No thanks
    They can keep each other and head down hollywood way together

  • bananaboy

    dana white :ronda rousey was never my friend…

  • Cracka Ass Cracka

    The world should dump Edmond

  • WhiteBreadLA

    Who the hell is Edmund? A former boxing or UFC champ? NO! He is a nobody! If Rhonda had gotten a REAL boxer to train her, say Oscar Dela Hoya or Floyd May, she would of been better prepared. She may be smart but she was really stupid to ever listen to that idiot try and make her a boxer. Well, off to huge paydays in the WWE. Rhondas brand is secure. She, like Brock Lesnar, are great wresters and the punches are fake in the WWE.

  • ShawnKarr

    Edmund is a douche, no doubt.
    But I find it funny people are using home as a scape goat for her losses. Freddie Roach could’ve coached her and it wouldn’t have made a difference.
    Rousey was simply exposed, out classed by a superior fighter.

    • Jean Pierre Papin

      A superior puncher. My take was that she tried to punch with Nunes first, whereas she should have gone for a clinch and take down and I didn’t see any initiative to that at all. She ate a few devestating punches in the process and it was game over. That, in my mind, is the fault of her coaching crew. They gave her the wrong plan and tactics. She should have focused on her strength and then used punching as an adjunct once she has control of the body on the ground. This idea that going to ground is cowardly has existed too long in MMA. GSP is the perfect example. He used his ground game to wear other down, though he also had a good punching game. Ronda needed to realize she doesn’t have a punching game and punching should only be used when she has control. Coaching fault there, no one else’s.

    • james

      It depends. I have been saying for years she should train Sambo mixed with heavy power kicks people normally worry about getting take down from.

      Of coarse being dazed by being punched is a danger there which brings me to she don’t spar enough with moderate headstrikes. She obviously has that old Lesnar twinkle when she get hit.

      Defensive foot work and Sambo striking push kicks, side kick heavy. She is never going to be a good boxer. But she should have learned to make them whiff and clinch or grab a leg.

  • Bill Wolf

    The damage is done.

    Ronda Rousey would be smart to retire and have children while she can. Taking years to unlearn the bad skills Edmond Tarverdyan taught her and learn good striking skills instead would be a poor use of the time remaining on her biological clock.

  • Kris-tyahn

    She can’t become a world class striker in a few years and since Rousey already stated before this fight vs. Nunes that this would be one of her last fights, she didn’t have plans to stick around for long anyway. Time to retire, bc if she fights anyone with decent striking with decent power, Rousey LOSES!

  • NEC9540

    The way she was hit by Holms and Nunes in those two very short fights is the equivalent to the damage Ali (metaphor here) took in all his fights. She could literally die next time she steps into the octagon. Retire…..and have the commission strip that Tarverdyan’s license. He is a shady dude with a shady past.

  • Gerald

    It’s hard to tell in a fight this short what the game plan was and whether she actually even tried to execute it or did she just freeze the first time she got hit. The shock of that first punch could have been such a jarring reminder of the Holm fight that she might have cracked and let all prep fly out the window. It’s hard to believe that any coach would have told her to stand in the pocket with Nunes and trade blows. Ronda looked like she panicked after the first punch and then just started swinging. The fact is that the moment you get clipped your first thought has to be staying awake and you go hardcore defensive trying to slip the punches and circle away from the power of your opponent. None of that happened. If Tarverdyan genuinely tried to have Ronda stand toe to toe with Holm and Nunes he should never be able to coach again…if Ronda was a victim of her own hubris and believed the hype she was invincible then no coach in the world could have saved her from these beatdowns…and she should consider herself lucky she never faced Cyborg. We would have been talking about one more death in 2016.