Ronda Rousey shut down all of the talk of her fighting a man this week, as she talked to Doug Gottlieb about the situation on during her victory media tour.
“It’s not a reality,” Rousey said. “They’re not gonna do anything like that. Fights are chaotic. Anything can happen. And there’s no setting in which we should condone a man hitting a woman. I really just don’t think that any athletic commission on Earth would ever condone something like that,” Rousey said. “Fights are going to go both ways. You’re going to see both people hitting each other. I don’t think we should celebrate a man hitting a woman in any kind of setting.”
Gottlieb attempted to goad her into a different answer, but Rousey didn’t bite.
– Ben Henderson is at it again, trying to score a last minute fight at UFC Fight Night 62 against Erick Silva. Silva’s opponent Ben Saunders was pulled due to injury. UFC Fight Night 62 is under two weeks away.
Henderson made his 170 pound debut in the UFC just three weeks ago with a short notice win over Brandon Thatch.
– In addition to the WWE Experience, there is a huge MMA presence at the Arnold Sports Festival. Andrei Arlovski, Jon Jones, Felice Herrig, Randy Couture, Chris Weidman, Dan Henderson, Diego Sanchez, Forrest Griffin, Todd Duffee and Ovince St. Preux are all at the event.
In former years, UFC and Strikeforce would often try to capitalize on the Arnold Classic by also booking an MMA event. With no major MMA presence in town, there have been amateur shows promoted in recent years.
