“I don’t think it’s going to be a situation about adding a boxing coach, it’s about getting more thoughts from boxing trainers.”
“I will be speaking to them and getting in the best advice. And if I feel it’s necessary we will bring them in. But besides boxing, even the wrestling, the judo, the grappling aspect of it — just approaching the fight in general, there will be a bit of things that we could add.”
“A lot of people might think Ronda didn’t move her head when she was moving forward and she got popped with a shot,” Tarverdyan said. “Ronda does know how to move her head. Ronda moved her head and avoided a lot of short, stocky straight shots, and she got into a beautiful clinch.
“If you watch the Liz Carmouche fight, any of [Rousey’s previous] fights, she out-manoeuvres and she gets inside in the clinch so well. But this fight, she just got caught from the beginning, and everything was not in our favor. So what I’m trying to say is, afterwards it’s easy to criticize. It’s easy to say, ‘Hey you could have done this,’ and as a trainer I know we can do better. So I’m not going to say that we had the best camp. We will learn from it, and she will learn from it.”
