Ronda Rousey will host NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” on January 23rd according to The Wrap. Rousey will be on the show with Selena Gomez as the night’s musical guest.
It goes without saying that Rousey will be the first UFC fighter to host Saturday Night Live.
Rousey’s appearance will be her first scheduled public appearance since her upset loss to Holly Holm at UFC 193.
(h/t: The Wrap)
Payout Perspective:
Despite her loss Ronda Rousey is still a mainstream personality that attracts attention. Certainly the SNL spot was aided by her Hollywood agents. It will be interesting how she does. Her experience in working on movies and commercials should help although comedic timing is something that has to be cultivated. One would suspect she does as good as The Rock (and perhaps we see a guest cameo from Dwayne) but not as bad as Nancy Kerrigan.
This is what you get when you hire good managers. She’s overhyped and it doesn’t seem that a crushing defeat has affected the hype. I give it 12 more months. One more loss to Holly, and perhaps another loss or a tough fight and she’ll hang up her gloves.
I don’t see how she is overhyped, she was destroying everyone she fought and defended her title 8 times (if you include the Strike Force title). Her grappling is on another level than anyone else also. Does everyone think if you lose 1 fight to someone who was likely cheating anyway, you can’t fight anymore?
When you lose a fight like she did and get KTFO then yes you are over hyped.
By that argument Jose Aldo was over-hyped. Zero rational people would agree with that.
d – they were calling her the most dominant athlete on the planet – beating out people like Usain Bolt, Michael Phelps, Lebron and Messi not to mention long-time dominant fighters like Justine Santos and Klitschko (who at the time hadn’t lost in over a decade). I’m sorry, but she was way overhyped.
No one was saying that Aldo was the most dominant athlete on the planet, so no, he wasn’t overhyped.
How is Holly cheating by the way?
I forgot to mention Mayweather, who was still active at the time Ronda was “crowned” most dominant athlete. I don’t like Mayweather, but you have got to be kidding me that Ronda was more dominant than him.
Diego, who is they? Most people and journalists were calling her the best woman’s fighter, which she was and arguably still is. Of course there were mainstream media outlets with little mma knowledge that may have been saying ridiculous things, but the majority were not.
As for Justine Santos, this is absurd to bring this name up. This is a woman(I think) who cheated every fight she had. She should have been banned years ago. She has more testosterone in her body than the average pro wrestler on a daily basis.
Also, Holm was noticeably more defined, had the performance of a lifetime after looking horrible in previous fights, trains at Jackson’s(a ped haven) and was linked to ped companies.
Also, I do not believe Aldo was over-hyped. I was just using that as an analogy for a fighter who was considered p4p the best and then lost.
On a side note, Floyd Mayweather doesn’t deserve much credit when it comes to fighting in my opinion. Yes, he is a great defensive fighter, but from a perspective of competition and performance, he was a disgrace. He avoided every type of dangerous fight, nearly throughout his entire career, never took any risks, and in my opinion was given at least 2 decisions he should have lost. No one that fights that way should be considered some sort of p4p best athlete in anything.
They is the media outlets who overhyped Ronda. The same media outlets that have now booked her on SNL for some unimaginable reason. That’s my point. Of all the people in combat sports to name the “most dominant” they choose the one prettiest with the best PR team. In a word: overhyped.
Not all of the media made those declarations. Using the term “media outlets” is very general. If we are talking sherdog, mmafighting.com, or any of the standard mma media websites, almost no one would say she was the most dominant athlete across sports. But the truth of the matter is when you are destroying people in less than a round nearly every fight and you defend a title 8 times, you make a strong case for top fighter p4p best in combat sports. I’m not saying she was, because after all is said and done, she is still a woman, but let’s not get carried away and imply she was overhyped in terms of what the mma community was claiming about her, because she flat out wasn’t.
When people use the claim over-hyped, it implies fraudulent behavior. This girl wasn’t a fraud. She was and is a killer. It will take a long time for someone to match her dominance at the highest level of the sport. Holm will never accomplish what Rousey did.
There’s no implication of fraud in “overhyped” it’s just when the expectation does not match the results. Manziel was also overhyped.
I respectfully disagree with you. I think the expectations she had initially were much lower than Manziel and accomplished about a thousand times more.