Womens MMA is like the lighter mens categories, made for grapplers, they cant hit hard enough to get a one punch knockout making grappling easier than say in the middle weight or heavyweight categories
And the big Problem is whilst with the mens combat sports wrestling, judo, boxing, Thai and BJJ are largely all at the same level in terms of talent pool and depth of said competition, or at least close enough to as make no diffeerence women’s combat sports simply isn’t at the same place. I mean An all American Div 1 wrestler on the national squad facing an international level judoka would be at largely the same level experience wiseand faced a similar amount of hard opponents
Womens judo entered the OL games back in 1988, so has close to 30 years of solid international funded competition, wrestling only joined in 2004 I think, the talent pool simply isn’t there to compete with judo, neither is it in womens boxing or kick boxing
So you have a situation where a world calss athlete comes from a very competitive sport, into a sport where there is nowhere near the level of competition she is used to, and is cleaning house
For the title fight she fought a 4-time All-American and National Champion in free style and a mundails BJJ champion, and owned her, a similar level judoka in mens MMA fighting a Similar level wrestler and BJJ fighter would expect a much closer fight its just that the level of competition in womens BJJ and women’s wrestling isn’t as challenging as what Ronda had to face growing up in Judo