Many UFC fans are looking forward to the upcoming bout between Ronda Rousey and Holly Holm for UFC 193. To stir excitement among fans and level up the hype about the upcoming fight, UFC released promotional videos for the title fights.
The almost three-minute commercial shows how Rousey and Holm rose to fame in combat sports. It features Rousey's entry in judo and Holm's admission in a boxing gym in her teenage years. The two fighters' training was highlighted and the video ended with the two fighters in the same octagon for UFC 193, Yahoo! Sports reports.
In the commercial, the girl playing as the younger Rousey bears uncanny resemblance to the most dominant female athlete in sports. Well, the same features should not be a surprise, because the young Rousey was her sister Julia De Mars, 17.
The report suggests that when Julia raises the bronze medal in the commercial, she bears the trademark smirk that Rousey often display. For those who don't know, maybe they will think that it was Ronda Rousey in the video all along.
Ronda was obviously proud with her sister as she turned to Facebook and wrote, "Amazing UFC 193 promo. My little sister even plays the younger me in it!!"
On the other hand, it is noticeable how Rousey addressed Holm as the "most decorated striker in mixed martial arts" but Chael Sonnen doesn't agree with her and even dismisses it, MMA Fighting has learned.
Sonnen, a former UFC middleweight star and current ESPN analyst told Ariel Helwani on the 300th episode of "The MMA Hour" on Monday that he was not impressed with Holm's multiple boxing title. In fact, he seems to be questioning if those title have any value whatsoever.
"She is making a claim that she is a 17-time world champion," Sonnen said. "I will tell you as an analyst, she has zero world championships. There is no validity to any one of those titles."
Holm, 33, is a former three-division boxing champ with titles in WBF, WBO and WBA. She was held as a Ring magazine female boxer of the year twice. However, Sonnen remains unimpressed citing that "world champions" is someone who goes through a tournament process similar to that in the Olympics.
"That never happened in any of those 17 championships," Sonned added. "She showed up for some event, the promoter needed a main event, so he called that main event a world title. It's not a knock on her, but that's what happened. I'm not gonna sit back as an analyst and call her a world champion, let alone 17 times. If she beats Ronda Rousey, she's the world champion."
Rousey and Holm will meet in the octagon on Nov. 14.
