Why is WMMA striking so terrible?

Everyone thought Holly Holm had the best striking ever of all time because of how badly she embarrassed Ronda, but it's all relative.

A purple belt (in striking) could make a white belt look amateurish, but that doesn't mean that the purple belt is a black belt. Furthermore, a female purple belt (in striking) is probably equivalent to a men's blue belt (in striking) just because of the difference in talent pools.

And when I refer to striking, it encompasses more than just one's hands. Offensive striking with all limbs, defensive striking with head movement, footwork, slips, rolls, and feints, they're all under the umbrella term of "striking".
 
Don't most of these women train in the same camps as the men?
Why are very few WMMA fighters proficient in boxing/MMA striking?

Do the training camps overemphasize the ground game for women?

Honestly, I think JJ and Holly Holm have excellent striking because of their training and experience before they got into MMA.

So is MMA striking training for WMMA mostly ineffective? Is the only hope to take boxers and kickboxers and convert them into WMMA fighters?

WMMA is about 20 years behind men's. It has started evolving. 1-trick pony ronda was finally exposed. Legit female athletes that are strikers with submission and takedown defense are now dominating. More women will be able to train full-time in the future, as more are getting to now.
 
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