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Ronda Rousey Calls Out Steroid-Pumped Cris Cyborg: No One Wants to Watch Her Cheating A B***

Ronda Rousey Calls Out Steroid-Pumped Cris Cyborg Rowdy’ Ronda Rousey was a megastar in the world of MMA huge huge mainstream crossover appeal. The became the…

Rowdy’ Ronda Rousey was a megastar in the world of MMA huge huge mainstream crossover appeal. The became the face of the UFC. Rousey is also the reason the UFC started allowing women’s fights at all. In this interview, she reflects on saving women’s MMA and slams all-time great Cris Cyborg.

Ronda Rousey on Women’s MMA

Ronda Rousey was an Olympic medalist and then began competing in MMA in Strikeforce. There, she was celebrated for her trash talk and feud against Miesha Tate. Zuffa, the owning company of the UFC, bought Strikeforce so Rousey made sure to get women into the UFC. Even Dana White admitted that they would never have started the women’s fighting division if it wasn’t for ‘Rowdy’ Ronda Rousey.

Prior to Rousey’s run, the biggest names in women’s MMA were Cris Cyborg and Gina Carano who fought on network TV under Strikeforce. The Brazilian fighter has picked up titles in Invicta, Strikeforce, Bellator, and the UFC, among others. Despite being a trailblazer and an all-time great, Ronda Rousey has no love for Cris Cyborg.

Speaking in an interview with Chris Van Vliet, Rousey explained:

“People forget how fragile that situation was and how last-minute I was able to get us in. Strikeforce was the only organization that was really showcasing women and that was because of Gina Carano, because her dad was involved with the Nevada Athletic Commission and was able to sanction fights for her and all these things.”

Ronda Rousey hits back at UFC fans over criticizm of KO losses I'm the greatest fighter to ever live — Mandatory Credit: MMA Junkie

Speaking on Cris Cyborg, she said:

“When she was gone, Cris Cyborg’s pumped to the f*cking gills with steroids. No one wants to watch that cheating ass bitch. Everything just tanked. The division was dying. The UFC bought Strikeforce and it was assumed they were just going to absorb all of the male talent that they liked and fold the whole organization, because that’s what they did with PRIDE, that’s what they did with WEC, that was their business model. So there was a matter of time.”

Rousey added:

“It was just a matter of time before they closed the whole thing and there would be nowhere that would showcase women’s MMA, so I had that much time to make sure that Dana [White] couldn’t go a single day without seeing my name somewhere. The rest is history.” [Ht MMAFighting]

Ronda Rousey was able to create a massive amount of attention for women’s MMA with her impressive and quick wins in the UFC. She has since MMA and began competing in WWE professional wrestling.

Ronda Rousey: “I’m F*ing Breaking the next B**es arm” – Recalls When She Started Snapping Limbs

Ronda Rousey showed mercy once. Then never again. Rousey exited the MMA game in 2016 after suffering back-to-back knockout…

Ronda Rousey showed mercy once. Then never again.

Rousey exited the MMA game in 2016 after suffering back-to-back knockout losses against Holly Holm and Amanda Nunes. Before that, she was one of the most exciting attractions the sport had ever seen, scoring 12 straight wins including nine victories by way of her signature maneuver, the armbar.

Looking back at one of her earliest bouts on the Strikeforce Challengers series, Rousey recalled a time when she held back from breaking someone’s arm in a fight and why she vowed to never offer that same courtesy to any of her opponents again.

“The 25-second fight is when I fought Sarah D’Alelio,” Rousey said in a short on her YouTube channel. “So as we were falling down she was screaming, ‘tap, tap, tap,’ because as soon as I hit the ground that girl’s elbow was going to go out. There was no way I could control it so I let go of it. I held the position and I’m like, ‘The girl’s trying to tap.’ I told the ref and then the ref called it because obviously it was a verbal submission and she goes, ‘But I didn’t tap! I didn’t tap!’

“The whole f*cking crowd is booing me and sh*t and I was like, ‘This b*tch. That’s it, I’m never gonna be nice again. I’m f*cking breaking the next b*tches arm.’”

Ronda Rousey stayed true to her word

Four months later, Rousey did exactly that. ‘Rowdy’ dislocated Julia Budd’s arm 39 seconds into their Strikeforce Challengers 20 scrap in November 2011.

Overall, Ronda Rousey went 12-2 in her mixed martial arts career with a 100% finish rate. In addition to the assortment of arms she collected, ‘Rowdy’ also secured knockouts against Sara McMann, Alexis Davis, and Bethe Correia.

Following her exit from the Octagon in 2017, Rousey parlayed her fame and athleticism into a successful career in sports entertainment, signing with the WWE in 2018. She would go on to win the RAW women’s championship and made history as one of the first women to headline WrestleMania.

After taking a few years away from the spotlight, she returned to win the 2022 Royal Rumble and kickstart another WWE run that would ultimately come to an end in October 2023.

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Ex-UFC champion Miesha Tate slams Ronda Rousey for being more focused on ‘Self instead of Self-Growth’

Miesha Tate holds no ill will towards Ronda Rousey. She just wishes ‘Rowdy’ felt the same way. It’s been…

Miesha Tate holds no ill will towards Ronda Rousey. She just wishes ‘Rowdy’ felt the same way.

It’s been nearly eight years since Rousey stepped inside the Octagon. Still, the women’s MMA pioneer has found herself the subject of many a headline in recent months following the release of her latest book, Our Fight: A Memoir. And just as it was when she first left the UFC behind, Rousey has found herself the subject of widespread criticism with fighters and fans slamming the Olympian for constantly playing the blame game.

Recently, former UFC bantamweight queen Miesha Tate shared her thoughts on Rousey’s lack of personal growth in the years since closing the door on her combat sports career.

“I personally don’t have the animosity that I had for Ronda at one point,” Tate said on Sirius XM’s MMA Today show with Ryan McKinnell. “The disdain, the frustration, I’ve been able to work through those things and see my fault in it and try to be a better person.

“I wish that I could say that I saw the same growth from Ronda, but it doesn’t seem that way. It certainly seems that she’s holding onto the resentment, the frustration and the anger, and allowing it to dictate her next moves. I do not think the MMA community, in large part, ever turned their back on Ronda” (h/t MMA Junkie).

Tate doesn’t think Ronda Rousey was able to handle the Downside of fame

Tate was undoubtedly Rousey’s greatest foe, squaring off with ‘Rowdy’ in both Strikeforce and the UFC. The two were also featured as opposing coaches on the 18th season of The Ultimate Fighter.

Rousey was at the peak of her popularity in the sport, but she ended up rubbing a lot of fight fans the wrong way with her aggressive and overdramatic attitude throughout the season. More than a decade later, Tate believes nothing has changed.

“She forgot that there were hundreds of thousands of little girls around the world that were still idolizing her,” Tate said. “They didn’t care if she won or lost. They thought she was amazing either way. She doesn’t seem to have come to the point where I would like to see her be yet.“

“I think she’s still really hurt by it, but I think she’s very focused on self instead of self-growth. I think she’s still focused on, ‘Well, this is what happened to me, all these people turned on me, I had all these concussions happen to me, and nobody was thinking about me.’ It’s like, well, hang on, it’s not quite like that.

“People beat you down a bit. It comes with fame. Nobody gets away unscathed in life, much less if your life is put on a magnitude scale where everybody gets to witness your rise like they witness your fall. But it happens to every champion. This is not a Ronda Rousey vs. the world situation. It’s when you are great, sometimes people just want to see greatness fall.”

Ronda Rousey admits she never evolved during UFC career: ‘I had to be everything to everyone’

Former undisputed bantamweight champion, Ronda Rousey has agreed with recent claims from UFC boss, Dana White regarding her lack…

Former undisputed bantamweight champion, Ronda Rousey has agreed with recent claims from UFC boss, Dana White regarding her lack of ability to evolve as a fighter during her tenure in the promotion, chalking it up to being “everything to everyone”.

Rousey, the inaugural bantamweight champion under the banner of the White-led organization, called time on her combat sports career following back-to-back knockout losses to both Holly Holm and Amanda Nunes in title fights, the last of which came in 2016.

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In the time since, Riverside grappler, Rousey has excelled in professional wrestling under the banner of the WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment), however, departed the organization at the tail end of last year to boot.

Revealing a slew of concussion issues had derailed her career in mixed martial arts, earlier this week Rousey claimed she was suffering from neurological injuries and concussion-like symptoms as early as six years of age.

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Ronda Rousey agrees she never evolved in her fighting career

And detailing how she admittedly failed to “evolve” as a fighter during her time with the organization, Rousey chalked the fact up to her busy promoting schedule, and spreading herself too thin.

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“I had to be everything to everyone,” Ronda Rousey told CBS Sports. “I had to promote as hard as I trained, and because I did that, that’s why we got as far as we are today. I didn’t just make it about me and my performances and picking and choosing my fights, about when it would work best for me. That’s why we were so successful. That’s why the sport had never been hotter. It was because of that work.”

“I promised Dana (White) that’s what I would do if he believed in me and invested in me and brought me into the company,” Ronda Rousey explained. “I felt like if I did anything less, that would have made me a liar.”

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Ronda Rousey reveals what would need to happen for her to attend UFC event again: ‘It’s not really my scene’

Ronda Rousey hasn’t attended a UFC event in years and she says she likely won’t be attending one anytime…

Ronda Rousey hasn’t attended a UFC event in years and she says she likely won’t be attending one anytime soon.

However, Rousey says a big reason why she isn’t attending UFC events is because she doesn’t think the fans would receive her well. Ultimately, Rousey says she doesn’t want to attend UFC events as she thinks the fans wouldn’t be too kind to her.

Ronda Rousey claims she's not welcome to attend UFC events since departure I'm really vilified

“It’s just one of those things, I don’t want to go to a stadium full of people for fun,” Ronda Rousey told CBS Sports. “I’d rather be out on my farm or the beach or something else like that. I think I’d just have to have a reason to go. If my kids end up fighting or something like that or someone that I ended up coaching ends up fighting, I would go. It’s not really my scene anymore.

“When I was younger, I wanted to put on a hot dress and go to the fights and hang out with everybody and now I’m kind of just like an old lady that wants to sit home and sip tea. Plus, I wouldn’t want to go just to be like ‘I wonder how people are going to react to me.’ I would want to have a reason to go or something.”

As Rousey says, the only way she will attend a UFC event is if her kid ends up fighting, or if someone she coaches ends up fighting. It is a bit disappointing as Rousey is an all-time great, but she doesn’t feel the love from MMA fans as she should.

Ronda Rousey not ruling out her kids competing in MMA

Although Ronda Rousey has dealt with the highs and lows of MMA and has gotten concussed countless times, she isn’t ruling out her kids competing in MMA.

Rousey says she won’t force it on her kids, but if they want to compete in MMA, she will make sure they are trained to the best of their ability.

“If they wanted to [fight], I would do everything that I could to make sure they’re as great as possible, but I would never push them towards it,” Ronda Rousey said. “You can’t make somebody fight. It’s something that’s inside of you that you can’t help. I’ll make sure they know how to fight because it’s a survival skill, and I think it builds a lot of discipline. It’s very character developing and all of that. Whether or not they want to compete, it’s up to them.”

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Rousey finished her MMA career with a 12-2 record and last competed in 2016 when she was TKO’d by Amanda Nunes in 48 seconds.