Not the way I remember it. Of course she was popular but her being on TUF and not dealing w personal issues well, the talks of her beating mayweather, any talk about her beating men, inflamed alot of people.
So they would completley overreact to anything she did. It was open season on her when she lost but they were drooling and salivating for that to happen 4 or 5 fights before that, trust me.
She never cheated, broke any rules, never missed weight...but the fact that she was an outspoken women with an insane amount of over-hype about prospects outside of MMA, really made people go crazy on anything she did, when most of it was really harmless.