Ronda Rousey, the current UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion, responded early Thursday after upcoming opponent Bethe Correia made a comment about suicide ahead of their meeting at UFC 190.
Jesse Holland of MMA Mania passed along the translated remarks from Correia, which were made to Brazilian outlet Combate: “She is not mentally healthy, she needs to take care of herself. She is winning, so everybody is around her cheering her up, but when she realizes she is not everything that she believes she is, I don’t know what might happen. I hope she does not kill herself later on (laughs).”
Rousey responded via social media:
Suicide is not an issue to joke about under any circumstances. That said, the comments hit particularly close to home for the undefeated UFC champion because her father committed suicide during her youth.
Rousey is one of the most dominant athletes in sports right now. She holds an 11-0 career MMA record, including a 5-0 mark since joining the UFC. All but one of those victories came within the first round, and her last two triumphs took a combined 30 seconds to complete.
In other words, she doesn’t need any added motivation heading into a fight. Correia (9-0) provided some anyway in an example of trash talk gone horribly wrong.
UFC 190 is scheduled for August 1 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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