5 Reasons Ronda Rousey Could Lose UFC Title This Month

3. Odd Training Partner Choices

MMA fans know very well that Ronda Rousey trains with the controversial Diaz brothers, Nick and Nate. While they have had a large amount of success in their careers, they're not exactly known as the most responsible fighters in the business. Nick is notorious for skipping media duties, missing flights, being pulled from fights, starting brawls, disrespecting opponents, and marijuana suspensions. Nate is just as infamous for disrespectful behaviour, and also sat out almost a year of his career looking for more money despite having an existing contract, only to come back, miss weight, and forfeit 20% of his fight purse. And lose. Diaz is coming off a loss to Anderson Silva which may be overturned due to Silva testing positive for steroids, but Diaz failed a drug test himself for marijuana in the very same fight. And so you would think that Ronda Rousey might consider a new training partner... and she did. She elected to roll with B.J. Penn recently, working on her jiu-jitsu game. A surprising choice, since Penn's ground game was completely ineffective in his third and final bout with Frankie Edgar this past summer. Penn was dominated, and dominated badly.