Venezuela’s Veronica Macedo, Cautionary Princess Tale, What Could Have Been
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June 24, 2022,
Though it never made it to print, sometimes we come across an incredibly gorgeous girl and we have to write about her.
Even if we don’t publish it. This was written in July of 2019.
This is the case of Veronica Macedo.
LET’S WALK DOWN MEMORY LANE
A raven haired princess so beautiful that her fairytale story has to be a cautionary tale.
It just has to be.
She is so beautiful. Truly.
That is one of the first things that struck us about Veronica Macedo of Caracas.
She is incredibly gorgeous. She really is and you hope beyond hope that her wonderfully good feminine looks does not get ruined and her face puffed up by too many blows upstairs and way too many UFC fights.
At the rate that Veronica is losing, we probably won’t have to worry about the latter.
As of this July 20, 2019 writing, Veronica is 5-3-1.
That is a credible (not incredible) record but less impressive when you realize that she was once 5-0.
As always, the usual suspects are there as to why.
The most prominent one is that she is simply fighting better competition and whatever menu of weapons and strategy that she possesses is simply not good enough for the upper echelon fighters, which in all fairness she hasn’t even reached yet.
There has been a lot of early expectations.
We saw why. Understood too.
At the beginning of her career, when people were heaping praise upon her, including watching the kick heard around the world, when she flattened Chrissy Audin in what looked like an almost lethal blow to the head that sent Chrissy straight back and out cold.
It was scary.
Afterwards Veronica slowly pranced around the cage like a lioness on the rise.
And she was.
Then the weaknesses of her game began to surface.
Veronica is incredible when she is fighting from a standing position but not so much when she is down on the ground and grappling.
That is a major weakness.
Why haven’t they shored up that weakness?
Comparisons in other sports abound, including one in our female submission wrestling industry.
DWW ruled the competitive women’s submission wrestling world with a feminine but iron fist as long it was pure grappling with pins and body scissors. Their own Black Sea Amazon bouts were a forerunner of the MMA future to come.
Back in the day, we snail mail customers saw them as appallingly violent.
Compared to the brutal beat downs in the cage today, which we’ve gotten used to, the BSA Warriors were simple by comparison.
Talk about warming up the frog in the skillet.
Once the other women, around the world, began to become more proficient in MMA, as one prominent person in the industry told us, the DWW girls couldn’t compete from the neck up and their once powerful grip was loosened.
In college and NFL football, there have been some prolific offenses over the decades. The one that most comes to mind was the one orchestrated by the legendary quarterback turned exceptional announcer Dan Fouts.
He was the master of the Air Coryell stealth offenses.
In American football, Air Coryell is the offensive scheme and philosophy developed by former San Diego Chargers coach Don Coryell. The offensive philosophy has been also called the “Coryell offense” or the “vertical offense”.
With Dan Fouts at quarterback, the San Diego Chargers’ offense was among the greatest passing machines in National Football League history. The Chargers led the league in passing yards an NFL record six consecutive years from 1978 to 1983 and again in 1985.
They also led the league in total yards in offense 1978–83 and 1985. Dan Fouts, Charlie Joiner, and Kellen Winslow would all be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame from those Charger teams.
Is there more? Yes. Much more.
Coach Coryell set the league on its ear with his passing offenses after moving up from the college ranks. He won two consecutive division titles (1974–1975) with the St. Louis Cardinals. The Cardinals offense emphasized the pass while running the standard pro set.
Coryell moved to the Chargers and reached the playoffs in four consecutive seasons including three straight division titles (1979–1982). The Chargers in 1979 were the first AFC Western Division champion to run more passing plays (541) than rushing (481).
Coryell’s Chargers teams led the league in passing in seven of eight years.
Those are incredible statistics and accomplishments but what is missing from that stellar resume?
No Super Bowls.
We didn’t say Super Bowl win. We said no Super Bowl appearances, period.
The last time the Chargers were in the Super Bowl was 1994 with Coach Bobby Ross when they lost to the San Francisco 49ers 49-26.
Therein is a clue.
49 points scored against them.
You can have the greatest offenses in the world but if you have no credible defense, once you face the elite teams, you will most often lose.
We could talk football all day, but won’t.
Kliff Kingsbury is another perfect example of that.
Now the new hire as the NFL Arizona Cardinals Head Coach, at Texas Tech, his offenses were amazing, mostly run by the future super star Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes.
His record at Tech was revealing.
In 2013 they started 7-0 but finished 7-5. In 2014, 4-8. In 2015, 7-6. In 2016, 5-7. In 2017, 6-7. In 2018, started 5-2, ended 5-7.
Athletic director Kirby Hocutt announced on November 25, 2018 that Coach Kingsbury would not be retained for the 2019 season.
Kliff left with an overall record of 35–40 (including 13 victories over lower tier Group of Five and FCS competition) and 19–35 in Big 12 play.
Now in the NFL, if Kliff Kingsbury doesn’t find a stellar defensive coordinator who can help assemble a formidable defense, like Don Coryell at San Diego, his team will be incredibly fun to watch (we absolutely loved watching Mahomes at Texas Tech, often playing from behind) with all of those offensive fireworks but they will never be able to consistently beat the elite.
This is already Veronica’s problem.
In the brutally competitive UFC world, our Caracas beauty has not even reached the UFC upper echelon and is not just struggling, she is sliding down a rain drenched mountain void of brush and trees.
Watching three of her fights against Ashlee Evans Smith, Andrea Lee and Gillian Robertson were very revealing.
First of all, having been in the elite high school sports world ourselves, the first question we asked is why is her camp having a 5-0, then 20 year old fighter going up against older, more experienced and seemingly larger fighters?
That doesn’t make any sense.
Angelo Dundee once said that Sugar Ray Leonard was one of the best boxers he ever trained. It was also noted that Mr. Dundee brought Leonard along very slowly, compiling a formidable undefeated record against beatable foes, before he remotely squared off against the upper echelon of his time period.
What is the rush in Veronica’s situation?
Please tell us they are not making these decisions for a payday, like fighting the American Ashlee Evans Smith as a replacement for someone who, for whatever reason, was cancelled out.
Really?
Other camps cancelling out is not Veronica’s problem. She is a star. Not someone’s backup.
If we were her leadership, we would never take that fight. She’s only 20 and 5-0 and you’re going to take that fight against a far more experienced fighter at 29 who is 4-1?
With our high school female tennis player who had won loss records of 4-10 and 3-11 her previous two seasons, we brought her along slowly as she rose to 13-0 in her senior year. Not only were we protecting her record and major weaknesses, but her confidence as well.
She made it to the “Final Four” and led her high school to the playoffs for the first time in school history.
Watching Veronica fight Ashlee was like watching a girl fight a woman and she got beat up pretty bad. Then we hear from the announcers that she hasn’t been working with this camp very long and boy did it show.
In her fights against Andrea Lee and Gillian Robertson, those two knew not to fight Veronica standing up but get her down to the ground, no matter what.
Veronica was actually controlling the fight against Gillian until she was taken down and shocked with a rear naked choke demonstrating a lack of experience and skillful training.
Against the cowgirl Andrea Lee, Monica was never really in control of this fight except when she got a potential knee lock but couldn’t hold it.
Most of the time it was Andrea as the aggressor with Monica in such a position of weakness that at least three times, complete with the audience raining boos down upon her, Monica played possum and stayed on the mat in a leg strike position without being aggressive at all while Andrea kicked at her at will until the referee separated the fighters and allowed Monica to get up.
It was not surprising that Andrea easily won the fight.
You can’t help but get the sense that Monica may be in the wrong weight class and she absolutely was brought along too fast.
She is a great talent.
Make no mistake about it, this girl is a matinee idol. A celluloid princess. An electronic Social Media dream girl.
One of the memories that really saddens us from our elite sports days is when you see a great new very young talent that appears to not be managed to their full potential.
Compete against superior opponents too soon and the young person loses their confidence and eventually becomes the next great thing that never was. In boxing, a punching bag for well-managed fighters on their way up.
In the back of your mind, you know what could been if only the young person were in the right hands.
Macedo is scheduled to face Rachael Ostovich on August 10, 2019 at UFC on ESPN+ 14
It’s Veronica at 5-3-1 vs Rachael at 4-5.
Not exactly top billing records.
No insult.
No offense.
Veronica has plenty of that. Standing up.
She just doesn’t have any defense from the ground. She doesn’t seem to have a very effective plan or career strategy either.
So we are not overly worried about her absolutely gorgeous face getting roughed up too much.
If this slide keeps up, in this cautionary tale that appears to be coming to a swift UFC end, due to early retirement, her Princess face will remain virtually untouched.
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NOTE – As of this June 11, 2022, sadly Veronica is retired. She finished in the brutal UFC with a 1-4 record.
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