Bantamviktsmästarinnan Ronda Rousey kommer den 1 augusti att ta sig an utmanaren Bethe Correia, då de möts under UFC 190 i Brasilien. I dagsläget är Ronda obesegrad i sin MMA-karriär med elva avslutssegrar i bagaget, men livet har inte alltid sett så bra ut som det gör nu.
När Rousey var liten tog nämligen hennes far livet av sig, något som gör Correias senast uttalande lite extra magstarkt. Detta hade Bethe att säga, via ”Combate”:
I want to knock her out, show to everyone that she is a lie. She wants to stand up with me, let’s see. I want to humiliate her and show the word she has no MMA. She is focused on movies, books. I am much stronger, I come from a developing country, where people are struggling to survive, not to starve. It is very different from her life of reality.
Under pressure, she is proving weak. When her mom put pressure on her, she ran away from home. When she lost, it was because of drugs. That’s not a superhero. She is not mentally healthy, she needs to take care of herself.
She is winning, so everybody is around her cheering her up, but when she realizes she is not everything that she believes she is, I don’t know what might happen. I hope she does not kill herself later on (laughs).
Bethe är även hon obesegrad med nio segrar i bagaget, sju av vinsterna har tillkommit via domslut medan två av dem är TKO/KO-segrar.