Filed under: Featured , Featured Videos , News , UFC , Videos MELBOURNE, Australia – You didn’t see Mike Winkeljohn overcome with emotion when Holly Holm knocked out Ronda Rousey , because to him, it was all part of the plan. MMA fans are used to the sight of coaches streaming into the octagon post-fight, some shedding tears with their fighters. “It’s a good group of guys and ladies at our gym that work together and help each other out, and I think that’s what it’s all about – putting together a good game plan and looking for the strengths and weaknesses that both fighters have,” he told MMAjunkie after Saturday’s UFC 193 pay-per-view headliner at Etihad Stadium in Melbourne, Australia. And for the record, Winkeljohn said only his wife and kids can make him cry. As evidenced by Holm’s (10-0 MMA, 3-0 UFC) shocking second-round knockout win (watch the Holm vs. Rousey video highlights ), the coach and his longtime associates, Greg Jackson and Izzy Martinez, who run a pair of gyms in Albuquerque, N.M., exploited Rousey’s (12-1 MMA, 6-1 UFC) weaknesses like no other, concocting a game plan that made the now ex-champ look completely out of her depth against Holm, an ex-boxing champ who walked into the bout as an 8-1 underdog
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Coach: After beating Ronda Rousey, ‘no one will again’ underestimate Holly Holm – MMA Junkie