The UFC’s female bantamweight champion, Ronda Rousey, has cried on almost every episode of the current season of The Ultimate Fighter reality TV show, where she’s coaching opposite her nemesis, Miesha Tate.
Now, her mom has blogged about her daughter’s experience on the show, telling fans who accuse her of crying too much to shut up.
Ann Maria Rousey DeMars, a former world judo champion and sports psychologist, wrote on her blog that during her visit to the set, she got the impression that the show’s promoters were deliberately trying to provoke her daughter “to create a certain image for television”:
Maybe they’ll show some of that on the episode, maybe not. For those of you who say she cries too much—she’s always cried like that all of her life. Who the hell are you people to enforce a crying quota? If she cries over sad movies, happy endings and losing her car keys, what’s it to you? I’m the opposite of that. I’ve cried three times in the last twenty years, and one of those was when Ronda’s father died. So, she can have my share of the quota and it averages out.
The first time we saw Rousey crying on TUF was following Shayna Baszler’s loss to Tate’s student, Julianna Pena. We saw her crying again in the following episode when her student, Chris Beal, lost to Chris Holdsworth.
There’s been a lot of talk about how Rousey will come across on the show, with Tate saying that the show will reveal the true colours of her “emotionally unstable” opponent.
So far, the show has revealed tension between both fighters, with much of it centered around Tate’s boyfriend, Bryan Caraway, and Rousey’s trainer, Edmond Tarverdyan—neither of whom play football.
The show will run until November 30, when the two winners will face off in the finale. Rousey and Tate are set to fight at the co-main event of UFC 167 in December.
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