Serena Williams losing to Ronda Rousey for ESPYs Female Athlete of the Year is a complete joke

As everyone knows, the ESPYs are inherently pointless and hopelessly crass. (The ads this year played up the courage and strength of athletes past and present, then ended with “hosted by Joel McHale,” who’s only the most sarcastic man on television by about a factor of 100.) Athletes don’t need awards, they play for them. There are championships, MVP awards and individual titles available all year to give validation to athletes instead of a meaningless branding exercise that can quickly turn into a cynical, blatant ratings ploy, as in giving Caitlyn Jenner the Arthur Ashe Award instead of Lauren Hill.
So getting upset at the ESPYs makes about as much sense as getting mad about the Grammy’s, which are equally as worthless, which is something no one has ever bothered to tell Kanye West. Both have no larger meaning. No one cares who wins more than 12 hours later.

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But, come on: For Ronda Rousey, an athlete in a sport devoid of any real competition who spent a total of 30 seconds playing her sport over the past year (she had two bouts, one lasted 16 seconds, the other 14 seconds), to win Best Female Athlete over Serena Williams, who won every single Grand Slam played in between ESPY shows (a 28-0 record), is like Entourage, which Rousey starred in this year — probably the most difficult thing she had to do — winning Best Picture over, I don’t know, any other movie. It probably didn’t hurt that Rousey was in attendance at the awards while Serena was doing something with which Rousey is mostly unfamiliar of late: competing (at a tournament in Sweden, specifically).
That’s all. Any words written about the ESPYs are too much and I apologize for adding to the white noise. But this one was too absurd to ignore.