May 5, 2012; East Rutherford, NJ, USA; UFC president Dana White (right) poses with Strikeforce MMA female champion Ronda Rousey during a bout between Johny Hendricks and Josh Koscheck during UFC on Fox 3 at the Izod Center. Mandatory Credit: Joe Camporeale-US PRESSWIRE
Women's MMA has seen a pattern emerge where there is one "top star" and several others chasing. It was Gina Carano for a long time, then Cristiane Santos was wrecking the competition before taking Gina's crown. Unfortunately, "Cyborg" was caught doping after her last fight and is sitting out serving a suspension.
Ronda Rousey has emerged as the sport's top female star, drawing attention from multiple media outlets following a series of arm-wrecking performances.
Rousey will be taking on Sarah Kaufman this Saturday night in the Strikeforce main event, but much attention has been focused on a potential Rousey vs. Cyborg fight down the road. Cyborg recently said that she can't make 135 pounds and now, on TSN Radio, Ronda explained that simply doesn't care (Transcription via MMA Fighting):
"If she wants to fight me than she is going to have to find a way to come down to 135," she said. "We'll see how she does in a fair fight for once in her life. She has a history of coming in overweight to fights and I wouldn't doubt that if we agreed to some sort of catchweight at 140, she'd show up at 145 anyway and be like 'ah whatever, fight or not.' She's done this many times before. I don't owe her anything. She's completely defamed, and anything she's ever done is nothing because she is a big old cheater and she's been doping her whole life. And I think part of the reason why people like Dana [White] think there is a lack of depth in all these divisions is because this girl is doping and making everybody look like they aren't in her league. And I think the reason why people look at women's MMA like that was because of her. She is nothing but a detriment to the sport and the only positive she could play is an Ivan Drago bad guy that gets beat to hell by a Rocky. So no, she can come down and fight me at 135 because I have a whole line of other people that want to fight me already and I don't owe her anything.
"I don't need to come up and it's just like, why would I even want to come up to her weight?" she continued. "Stop doping, lose the weight. She can either do the drugs and fight me at 135 and have the drugs be just as much a detriment as a help to her during the weight cut, or she can cut out all the doping and make the weight easily. It's just whatever. As long as she makes 135, I don't care if she's injecting horse semen into her eyeballs but that's the only way I feel it would be a fair fight. She's never had a fair fight in her life and I see how the prospect of that would scare the hell out of her and why she would insist at fighting heavier."
SBN coverage of Strikeforce: Rousey vs. Kaufman


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