UFC 193: Holly Holm's KO of Ronda Rousey a Tyson-Douglas shocker

Ronda Rousey and Holly Holm will square off in Australia on Saturday night and we will have you covered right here with live updates.

If you're a boxing fan, you remember where you were when Mike Tyson lost.

And now, if you're a UFC fan, you'll remember the early hours of November 15, 2015.

That's when the freight train that is Ronda Rousey burst from her locker room, charged down the aisle to the strains of Joan Jett's "Bad Reputation," stepped into the cage … and got her aura kicked.

Its kicker -- literally -- was former three-division boxing champion Holly Holm, who translated her precise ring skills into the octagon and left her quarry bloodied and gasping before ending matters with a sharp straight left hand and a sweeping left leg kick that reduced the champion to a 134-pound heap.

Referee Herb Dean intervened at the 59-second mark of the second round to end what UFC announcer Joe Rogan instantly and correctly called "the biggest upset in mixed martial arts history."

And though the site of the fight -- Etihad Stadium in Melbourne, Australia -- is a shade more than 5,000 miles south of Tokyo, both the one-sidedness of the match and the stunned aftermath are similar.

Just as the bully-like Tyson was beaten for all but 15 seconds of his untimely rendezvous with 42-to-1 underdog Buster Douglas, the previously indomitable Rousey had only fleeting moments of positivity on the way to a similarly shocking loss to a foe who was a 20-to-1 'dog as recently as Friday night.

She was hit with straight left hand after straight left hand in the first round as Holm refused to stay stationary for the usual charge, which had seen Rousey's last three opponents vanquished in a combined 64 seconds. Holm was able to escape during the brief moments the fray did go to the floor, and she also spun out successfully the only time she was pinned against the cage wall.

Rousey already looked beaten when she slumped onto her stool following the initial five minutes, and sat stone-faced as her corner team tried to convince her that what she was doing was working.

It wasn't.

The contact got even more one-sided in the second session, and Rousey's downfall looked imminent when she lunged at Holm with a swinging head shot of her own, but was sent spinning red-faced into the cage wall after the challenger nimbly ducked away. A blistering straight left hand sent her reeling soon after, and Holm removed all doubt when her left foot connected with the side of her head.

Rousey was all but dethroned by the time she hit the floor, and Dean mercifully pulled Holm away before she was able to do any more damage.

As it was, Rousey was taken to a local hospital to stitch a split lip.

"It's been a work in progress for many, many years," said Mike Winkejohn, Holm's striking coach. "And she did it."

A stunned UFC President Dana White sounded similar to those in the Tyson camp after Douglas stripped his image, suggesting it might have been the whirlwind surrounding Rousey that led to the downfall.

For Tyson, it was the post-Robin Givens circus. For Rousey, White said, it was a hectic life.

"It's been an interesting camp for her and a rough couple months," he said. "It's impossible to say it doesn't have an impact, even though she's mentally the strongest person I've ever met. She's human."

Before veering too close to completely discrediting the new champion, however, White made sure to give her some credit as well.

"The fight went down the way that I thought the fight would go down," said White, who insisted going in that Holm would indeed be her stiffest challenge. "I thought Ronda would have more answers."

Nevertheless, he still wouldn't say the loss meant Rousey's image is forever dented.

"Every time someone goes on a win streak and do things forever and then they lose, people say they were exposed," White said. "I don't think Ronda was exposed tonight. She just got beat."

Though White said Rousey deserved an immediate rematch if she wants it, he assumed she would go on to handle her outside-the-cage commitments before entertaining the idea of a return.

"This changes a lot, obviously," he said. "But I wouldn't expect to see her back anytime soon."

Ronda Rousey didn't have a chance Saturday against Holly Holm. (Getty Images)

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Take a look back at all the action from Australia, from the pre-fight hype to the undercards to the shock of the main event via our real-time blog that was running throughout Saturday. 

Fight card

Women's bantamweight: (c) Holly Holm (10-0-0) def. Ronda Rousey (12-1-0) KO
Women's strawweight: (c) Joanna Jedrzejczyk (11-0-0) def. Valerie Letourneau (8-4-0) Unanimous decision.
Heavyweight: Mark Hunt (11-10-1) def. Antonio Silva (19-8-0) KO
Middleweight: Robert Whittaker (16-4-0) def. Uriah Hall (13-6-0) Unanimous decision.
Heavyweight: Jared Rosholt (14-2-0) def. Stefan Struve (30-8-0) Unanimous decision.