Yeah, Let's Actually Keep Booing Germaine De Randamie | ONE AND DUNN

Hear that sound? That's the sound of the MMA public punishing UFC women's bantamweight champ Germaine De Randamie for being too good at violence.

Aspen Ladd is surely still struggling to regain her balance even now. Barely 10 seconds into her title fight with the Iron Lady Saturday night at UFC Sacramento, she took a flush crush to the mandible and was down on hands and knees as if looking for a lost contact lens. Well, she didn't find it, and at 16 seconds, referee Herb Dean determined (perhaps unfairly) that Ladd was no longer capable of defending herself. No ground and pound. No fuss. Over and done with. And the champ stayed the champ.

This should be cause for a certain type of celebration, right? Sure, Dean lowered the curtain even more abruptly than Kevin McDonald did on TJ Dillashaw in the face of a flyweight curb-stomping from Henry Cejudo at UFC Brooklyn in January, but how the hell is that GDR's fault?

The Dutch muay thai priestess delivered a searing blow and was justly rewarded. That's how this works, people. Ladd was dazed. She had no idea what was going on and could barely pretend that she did, like she was watching an episode of freaking "Twin Peaks."

All told, we can accept that she may have been slightly hard-done without trashing the woman who done her hard.

...Right?

Wait. Hold on. Slow up a minute. De Randamie's smashing victory means she's on a collision course with General Secretary of the Facepunching Commissariat Amanda Nunes whether or not she incinerates Felicia Spencer or strips Cris Cyborg for parts, yeah?

Yeah. Okay, hear me out: we actually need to keep booing Germaine. Like, every chance we get. And for real-life reasons that make sense.

Seriously, there's something to this. She clearly has her head screwed on well enough to take it. She said in the moment that she understood the Golden 1 Center crowd's disappointment with such an abbreviated main event following a night of so many proper thrills-- not to mention the backlash to her refusal to put her featherweight title on the line against Cyborg after taking it from Holly Holm at UFC 208 in a decision victory that didn't sit well with everyone. Yes, folks, we need to keep booing De Randamie. Because it's going to work.

It's going to hype her up like mad and hand us the most outrageous, bang-bang showdown with Nunes that UFC could possibly conjure. It may not be what mankind deserves, but we can demand it from the bloody rooftops until we get it.

So fly, boo birds. Fly until King Dana makes this so.