Ronda Rousey says she comes from a family of quick-witted, accomplished women who don't back down.
For those aggravated by her approach to the MMA business, she has one thing to say: you're welcome.
"I don't think any girl can grasp what I'm trying to do," Rousey told MMAjunkie.com.
Rousey said there are those who get what she's doing by being so outspoken and brash. When she accuses Tate of being sanctimonious about the role of looks in women's MMA, she's not only expressing her opinion, she's playing to the media.
"It's not personal to me at all," she said. "I'm sure it's personal to Miesha. I really think they should be grateful to me because they've gotten more press, more interviews, more exposure than they ever have before in their entire careers. I don't want to pat myself on the back too much, but a lot of it is the result of me purposefully trying to get on everybody's nerves. So they take it personally, but I don't.
"I've had so many girl fighters come up to me and tell me they appreciate me and thank me. The only girls that seem to have a problem with me are either current champions or are former champions. I just think they have this sense of entitlement that everyone should kiss their ass and respect them all the time, and they're not used to dealing with any kind of confrontation."
I don't listen to my wife when she is blabbing, why would I listen to someone who I could give two fucks about... What happened to fighters being respectful and earning title shots not just talking their way into them?
Double standard for women? On the UG? How preposterous!
Ronda is doing nothing really but comporting herself like the average UFC fighter, I don't get why it makes people so uptight.
She can say anything she wants, at the end of the day she's the one who has to face off against the target of her trash talk inside of a steel fucking cage.
That's what's so sad about Cyborg. She didn't need to cheat to win, and she never failed a drug test until now. It makes me give at least some credence to her claim that she used stanozolol just that once to help her cut weight, not that that in any way excuses her. But if she could have fought at her natural weight. . . .
They have to be a lot stricter about testing the females in and out of competition.
I loved the "I don't think any girl can grasp what I'm trying to do..."You're right Ronda - but, welcome to 2012. There are women running nations and it's a women listed as having the highest IQ - But I can't imagine any female understanding the highly evolved notion and unbelievably complicated notion of "trash talking" to another woman.
Ronda strikes me as the kind of woman that feels better putting down other women and has now found a medium where she can actually claim she needs to be rewarded and thanked for her behavior. Unbelievable!
God, I miss Marloes and Gina - two beautiful, feminine women who also happen to be world-class athletes.
< Ronda strikes me as the kind of woman that feels better putting down other women >
I think it's called "competition." Dominate your opponent, stand over his/her unconscious form, end the match on top of him/her pressing his/her shoulders into the mat. . . .
<I miss Marloes and Gina - two beautiful, feminine women who also happen to be world-class athletes.>
What does beauty have to do with athletic competition? All women runners are beautiful (in the eye of the beholder-that's me) but that doesn't matter. It's just who crosses the finish line first.
