Kritiken mot Ronda Rouseys huvudtränare Edmond Tarverdyan har inte varit nådig sedan Rouseys förlust mot Holly Holm. Den senaste i raden att kritisera Edmond är mellanviktaren Tim Kennedy som menar att Tarverdyan är en skitstövle.
I en intervju med ”Fight Night on 1300 The Zone” berättar Kennedy att han inte ens vill benämna Tarverdyan som en tränare.
I hate that guy. I think he’s a jerk. I also think he’s a terrorist sympathizer.
There was coaching and then there was whatever happened with Ronda. I don’t want to diminish that word and call it coaching because that’s not what happened in Ronda’s corner. You definitely have to adjust what you’re telling your fighter depending who they are. You have to know who they are. None of us know Ronda well enough to second guess what her coach was doing. Maybe he was doing the right thing? Maybe he was giving her the confidence she needed? Maybe she’s someone who needs to operate in confidence? That’s just ludicrous, to me, though.
Ronda had the brakes beaten off her for four and a half minutes. Her face is bloody, her nose and lip are bleeding and then you have her coach saying, ’Hey, do the same thing?’ Not even like, ’Stick to the game plan. Change levels. Cut an angle and shoot a double leg. Push her up against the fence.’ Anything! ’Keep getting punched more.
Enligt Kennedy har Ronda enorm potential, men för att återta tronen måste hon byta klubb.
I think Ronda is one of those people like Jon Jones, like Holly. People who are just God’s gift to pugilism. You put her with the right coaches, with the right training partners, her potential is limitless. You put her with the guys she’s been training with? You get what you got.