Dana White har tidigare hävdat att Ronda Rousey är den kvinnliga MMA-motsvarigheten till Mike Tyson. Nu håller även före detta boxningsmästaren Roy Jones Jr med om liknelsen. Jones Jr, var på toppen samtidigt som Tyson och anses vara en av de bästa boxarna genom tiderna.
Det här hade Jones Jr att säga om Rousey och hennes senaste vinst under UFC 184, via ”MMAFighting”:
I think she is that devastating. Anybody who can do something like that hand-to-hand combat wise, I’m definitely a fan of. I think that’s a proper name, a proper thing to refer her to — a proper reference for her.
Yes, she is just like Mike Tyson and yes I would pay every time to watch her destroy somebody, I don’t care if it’s 10 seconds. But because I know what she’s coming to do, I’m gonna pay to watch her, because I’m gonna be entertained for them 10 seconds that she’s in there. Which is the same reason I’d watch Roy Jones Jr. and the same reason I’d always watch Mike Tyson.
White, som är vän med Tyson hade detta att säga:
She is, without a doubt, that female version of him.
There’s very few situations where a fight goes 14 seconds and the crowd is cheering and going crazy, looking at each other with their mouths open.
Rousey mötte senast Cat Zingano under UFC 184, då hon segrade via submission efter 14 sekunder.
