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Rousey’s Jiu-Jitsu Coach Rener Gracie: ‘Ronda Has the Best Armbars I’ve Ever Felt’

Rousey’s Jiu-Jitsu Coach Rener Gracie: ‘Ronda Has the Best Armbars I’ve Ever Felt’

 

 

Ronda Rousey’s Jiu-Jitsu coach Rener Gracie told MMAFighting.com‘s Ariel Helwani on Monday about how is amazed by her work ethic and fighting skills:

 

“There’s no doubt that she can put it on some men, for sure,” Gracie said. “I’ve seen it happen, and really do some damage.

“Here’s the thing, naturally, what everyone is going to say is ‘no’ — that men have the physical strength, the power advantage over someone like Ronda, or any female, you would say. And that’s generally a fair statement, I think. But the thing is this: Ronda has some things that I’ve never felt in even men, if that makes sense. Ronda has a certain flexibility, a dynamic flexibility mixed with strength, and blended with those two, impeccable technique.

“So she can be totally twisting and turning out of a position, as we saw this weekend, and apply a submission like that,” Gracie continued. “We’ve never even seen men do what she did this weekend against Cat Zingano. So in terms of her adaptability, in terms of her dynamic strength, we’ll call it, this ability to be strong in weird positions is unprecedented, in any athlete, in any MMA fighter — and I’ve worked with a lot of them — in any weight class.

“Now, you know, what happens when you’re going against a man, they put a little more power behind their punches, the knockout power is stronger, and who knows, they can muscle out of submissions a little crazier. But I’ll tell you what, once she’s latched onto a limb, I don’t care who’s limb it is, they’re going to tap. That’s for sure. She finds ways to incorporate her entire body, the leverage of her whole body, against the joint that she’s attacking. So I wouldn’t put it past her, but I don’t know if I’d go so far as to claim [she’d beat most male UFC bantamweights]. It’s just, I know what Ronda’s capable of and I know for sure that it’s not fair, it’s not competitive where she’s at right now. Because man, she’s just too good. I just don’t see any woman in the world beating her.”

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Ronda Rousey training with Rener Gracie at the Gracie Academy: