Former UFC Champ: Ronda Rousey Shouldn’t Be So Sensitive
Some buzz erupted last week when UFC women’s bantamweight champion Miesha Tate revealed on “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast that her archrival Ronda Rousey had supposedly blown up on women’s strawweight contender Paige VanZant at a Reebok event after hearing that “12 Gauge” had congratulated Holly Holm for beating her last year.
Watch “Cupcake’s” recollection of what VanZant, who later confirmed Tate’s words, had to say right here:
The alleged cussing out one of MMA’s darlings (VanZant currently sits as the frontrunner of “Dancing With The Stars”) not surprisingly put Rousey at the forefront of a heap of criticism due to her perceivedly harsh lashing out at VanZant.
One former UFC champion believes that Rousey may need to stop being so sensitive about her loss. All-time great MMA legend Randy ‘The Natural’ Couture told TMZ Sports that he had heard the story and Rousey is just touchy:
“I read that story, yeah. Who knows if it’s true? Sounds like it came from Paige through Miesha, and they’re not one to fabricate things like that. You know, sometimes people are sensitive when they lose fights.”
Asked if it wasn’t ordinary to congratulate your opponent after a loss in MMA, Couture said that it was, and that’s why Rousey shouldn’t be making such a huge issue out of hers:
“No, it’s commonplace. You shouldn’t take that sort of thing personal. You get when you lose, and you congratulate the guy that just beat you, so why would it even be an issue? That’s the way we roll in MMA.”
That’s a sentiment that many have echoed about Rousey in the wake of her seeming exile following the loss to Holm, but it was taken to an all-new level when “Rowdy” got just that with VanZant without justification. Is that a reflection of Rousey’s current mental state as her MMA return remains uncertain?
