Kedzie's affiliated with the Mario Roberto Jiu-Jitsu Association (MRJJA), which is headquartered here in Rochester--where I train.
Kedzie didn't win, but she showed a ton of heart, took some serious shots, and kept right on fighting. This was a great Showtime debut for women's mixed martial arts (MMA).
Posted by Ryan at February 23, 2007 04:34 PM | TrackBackfuck me, that was some shit. And then they're all huggy afterwards. I don't believe that I could beat on someone that hard and not hate them, either before or after, or both.
That was some rough shit. Scary.
Even scarier you pick up one of those girls in a bar and piss her off.
I saw the whole Showtime broadcast, Donna. In my opinion, these girls put on the best fight, and were far more professional, than the male fighters.
That Carrano girl can throw some mean-assed punches.
Posted by: Ryan at February 23, 2007 10:16 PMI dunno. I mean yeah, that was an exciting fight. But Kedzie was clearly outclassed from word go. Her trainer was exactly right: she wasn't committing to the fight. She took some serious punches and kept fighting, but she was also fighting like she was afraid to get hit. Instead of blocking she was constantly trying to slip the punches, so her hits never had enough power to overwhelm her opponent because her stance was always destabilized by her either recovering from or starting into a dodge. And it was a consistent problem, over and over again through the whole fight.
That spinning back kick was ballsy as hell though.
Posted by: Joshua at February 24, 2007 12:02 PMKedzie's strength is in her ground game, which is what she kept trying to work into, and had some success in the third round. Otherwise, yeah, she was outclassed, although I still give her credit for taking some of the best Carrano could deal out. Shit, I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of her right hand.
Posted by: Ryan at February 24, 2007 01:13 PMI wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of her right hand.
Now I think we all know that's a big lie.
Posted by: Joshua at February 24, 2007 07:42 PMAnd you give me shit for innuendo?
Posted by: Ryan at February 24, 2007 09:43 PMDitto on the S-B-K. She was short by a mile, and looked like she was trying to see it connect before it actually did, which is kinda the problem with those things.
But man, good show.
Posted by: seed at February 25, 2007 01:22 AMAll innuendo aside, I wouldn't want my damn car to be on the recieving end of her right.
That was quite the shiner Kedzie had already too. I showed the vid to my 12 year old buddy, he said the same thing, she was afraid of her, but dayum, she had balls just to take one of those hits, much less all of them. Very cool.
I’m sure all guys who write comments are teens or even younger. If you are older, than shame on you!
Posted by: Beau at April 9, 2008 04:24 AM