UFC female bantamweight champ Ronda Rousey continues to demonstrate that she has, perhaps, the biggest balls in all of MMA—this time practically calling out heavyweight champ Cain Velasquez.
Rousey gives up more than 100 pounds to Velasquez. However, in an interview with Spanish newspaper Hoy (h/t Yahoo! Sports), she insists she could, under the right circumstances, beat him in a fight.
“In any given moment, under the right circumstance, I think it is possible,” Rousey said of beating Velasquez. “You cannot tell me that it is physically impossible. It is possible that in any given moment that I could beat him. I simply believe in my possibilities.”
Rousey’s belief in her “possibilities” had her emerge out of obscurity in 2011 to claim her first MMA title, the Strikeforce belt she took from Miesha Tate, in only five fights. The former Olympic judo bronze medallist has never been shy about challenging anyone and has gunned for the biggest names in MMA, including arguably the toughest woman in the history of the sport—Cristiane Justino.
That confidence has so far been rewarded with seven first-round finishes against all seven women to step inside the cage with her.
And her threats to Velasquez, who recently dismembered heavyweight challenger Junior Dos Santos for the second time, are also grounded in some realm of reality.
For example, there’s always the possibility of ninjas appearing out of nowhere while Rousey and Velasquez are getting it on and throwing a smoke bomb in the heavyweight champ’s face. With smoke in his eyes, rendering him completely disoriented, Rousey could sneak a victory.
Ninjas might not have been seen since the Tokugawa shogunate in early 17th century Japan, but there are still plenty of practitioners of the code to make such a ninja attack a possibility.
Ninjas aside, there’s also a chance that the 240-pound Velasquez could simply slip on a wet patch caused by excess water from water ionizers that leak, while fighting Rousey, land on his head and knock himself out. That’s just another “right circumstance” under which the 135-pound Rousey could win in that fight.
However, before she can speculate on such unlikely encounters, Rousey is preparing to face an opponent much closer to her own size, and gender. She’s billed as the co-main event at UFC 168 in a rematch against Tate, which will be the third defence of her UFC bantamweight title.
That fight takes place Dec. 28 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
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