Former UFC commentator Jimmy Smith didn’t maintain again when discussing former girls’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey.
Smith took situation with Rousey’s current feedback about her UFC departure and the way she believed UFC commentator Joe Rogan and the MMA media had turned on her after he loses to Holly Holm and Amanda Nunes.
“It was actually disappointing to see how fortunately everyone turned on me and the way individuals like Joe Rogan, who had been crying within the ring concerning the honor of having the ability to name my fights, individuals I thought-about mates within the media so rapidly turned on me,” Rousey stated throughout an look on The Chris Cuomo Project. “I additionally am type of grateful for it in a means as a result of it compelled me to separate different individuals’s notion of me from my very own notion of myself.”
Rousey had beforehand sat down for an interview with Valeria Lipovetsky earlier this month. Within the interview, she mentioned her UFC departure, the loss to Holm, and her historical past with concussions.
“My mouth guard was dangerous. I actually got here into that combat concussed from slipping down some stairs already in spite of everything these years of concussions,” Rousey stated about her loss to Holm. “Then, I had a completely horrible weight minimize, which implies you have got much less fluid in your mind to guard it.”
The feedback sparked articles within the media from the MMA media to mainstream retailers. Quite a lot of them categorized Rousey’s feedback as ‘excuses.’ In her interview with Cuomo, Rousey known as the MMA media ‘a**holes.’
“The MMA media hates me. Not a single particular person has known as me or something like that. They’ve all simply doubled down and stated that I am making excuses or mendacity or blowing issues out of propotion, or not giving credit score the place it is due. … I am not ready for it [the call] and I get that they seem to be a bunch of a**holes.”
After listening to Rousey’s feedback, Smith did not maintain again along with his response.
“I’ve by no means been a spiritual particular person,” Smith stated on Unlocking the Cage with Jimmy Smith. “One factor that’s at all times stated about God: He will get all of the credit score, not one of the blame. That’s what Ronda Rousey needs: all of the credit score, not one of the blame. ‘I need credit score for all my wins. My losses, I had CTE and I had this and I had that. I’m the best to ever do it, however when it didn’t work, it was so and so and by no means me.’
“She by no means provides credit score to the individuals who truly beat her. The concept (she) left MMA and went to the WWE as a result of (she) had concussion issues is mindless.”
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Smith didn’t cease there. He went on to allege that the individuals behind the scenes, the cameramen, the sound particular person, the interviewers, and others could not stand Rousey.
“The individuals behind the scenes, digital camera individuals, audio individuals, the individuals you’ll be able to push round and the individuals you’ll be able to bully and the individuals you’ll be able to speak right down to can’t stand (her) f*cking ass,” Smith stated. “All people behind the scenes that needed to put a mic on Ronda Rousey couldn’t stand her. I stated why? They stated, ‘She was a b*tch to us from the second she sat right down to the second she acquired up. Prefer it’s our fault she has to do that interview to hype her subsequent combat. And he or she’s simply depressing, and he or she’s imply to us, and we are able to’t stand her.’
“They had been cheering when she acquired knocked out. That is what I used to be instructed. These are the individuals you may be imply to and impolite to, and so they can’t combat again. These individuals couldn’t stand Ronda Rousey, so don’t sit right here and inform me that you simply’re the sufferer when the poor man sitting behind the digital camera is doing his job will get sh*t on by you, otherwise you’re imply to the particular person asking you questions after we’re hyping your combat. Don’t give me this sufferer sh*t.”
