"Everything happened in the first round and in the first two and a half minutes. It was messy, it was bloody and it’s not an easy viewing for everybody. Tamika suffered a concussion and a broken skull and Fallon Fox wasn’t stopping until Tamika Brents was finally TKO’d.
After the fight, Tamika Brents gave an interview and she said that she never felt such power and strength at any woman before she was fighting Fallon Fox."
I honestly won't waste one second of my life watching MMA. Other forms of martial arts are far more interesting, not that I watch much of those either.
But to think a person born a man then getting gender reassignment surgery, fighting a person born a female is an even playing field, is just ridiculous.
That's just the opinion of a fighter who got their ass kicked. The same has been said of male fighters by their opponents that fighter X,Y or Z is freakishly strong, fast etc.
A man and woman of same height and weight.... the woman has longer reach with her legs typically.
MMA has evolved quite a bit and it is very technical. As someone who boxes and does bjj I can attest to that. It's not fair to let this one incident sour the sport.
There was a trans track star.... I'm more against that than a mma fighter because in track there aren't weightclasses.
If there was a big difference then Fallon would be 6-0 with all 1st round KOs but that's not the case. He/She is 5-1 with finishes coming a variety of ways/rounds.
Tameka has a pro record of 2-3 and is 30 years old. I think she'd be in trouble taking on a woman with a 4-1 record. Or put another way a promising up and coming fighter vs an average over the hill fighter is likely to end with an injury.