Is Ronda Rousey the most dominant athlete of the Twitter era?

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Ronda Rousey Knocks Out Bethe Correia in 34 Seconds
Ronda Rousey Knocks Out Bethe Correia in 34 Seconds



By JOHN DORN

Over the past half-decade, Twitter has changed the complexion of sports, and how fans consume all of a game's analysis and opinion. The network has provided fans a platform to sound off more than ever, and the sports landscape has flipped on its axis because of it.

Especially with pay-per-view events such as mixed martial arts matches, Twitter gives the opportunity to follow action in real-time by simply reading the reactions of the network's users. The combination of credentialed reporters on the scene, more nuanced fans elsewhere, and the causal fan providing more elementary insight, there's more context available than ever before. The ability to interact and connect immediately has transformed the typical water-cooler-type banter onto a seemingly infinite platform, making for a limitless conversation.

We often wonder how the Twitterverse would react to Babe Ruth's mammoth home runs or Michael Jordan's dominance -- or even fairly recent events like Derek Jeter's crowd-diving catch and the New York Giants spoiling the New England Patriots attempt at a perfect season.

But Saturday night, we may have learned one interesting tidbit: In the brief span that the Twitter conversation has reigned supreme over the sports world, Ronda Rousey may have emerged as the most dominant athlete ever tweeted about.

In a one-sided, 34-second pounding of counterpart Bethe Correia, Rousey took over Twitter for the second time in 2015 -- on Feb. 28, she defeated Cat Zingaro in a career-shortest 14 seconds.



Tweeted more than 318,000 times over the 24 hours prior to this publication, Rousey's amazing showing drew reactions that Jordan and Ruth never had the chance to. Pondering the type of tweets those legends would've drew has become even easier now thanks to Rousey and her mind-blowingly one-sided knockouts.

Of her 12 career matches, five have ended in 34 seconds or less. Nine have expired in under a minute, and just one has extended past Round 1.

The LeBron James' and Mike Trouts of the world mean more to their respective sports than anybody. But in terms of worldwide reaction, Ronda Rousey's domination has provided the current generation with something special.



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