5 Biggest mistakes made in UFC title fights

#2 Holly Holm vs. Ronda Rousey

Holly Holm obliterated Ronda Rousey at UFC 193

Then-undefeated UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion Ronda Rousey faced former professional boxing world titlist Holly Holm at UFC 193 in 2015. Most experts predicted Rousey to take Holm down and arm-bar the latter into submission in the very first round.

Needless to say, they were dead wrong! Rousey kept charging at her foe in straight lines and made absolutely no efforts to establish angles and range before trying to engage in a striking battle with Holm. The latter, on her part, fought brilliantly and kept tagging Rousey with a number of beautiful, crisp, counter punches.

Round 2 featured much of the same, as Holm eventually started sitting down on her punches and truly started whipping Rousey's head back with each successive counter punch. A softened up Rousey ended up eating Holm's left leg roundhouse head-kick, and a few follow-up punches, before Holm was declared the winner by way of KO.

Rousey's poor footwork and overzealous pursuit of Holm in straight lines of attack proved to be a huge strategic error in her UFC 193 bout against the latter.