Correia: I don’t regret anything I said
Bethe Correia: “I don’t regret anything. I think I did a great job … It wasn’t the result that I wanted, but I think everything that I said was something that I thought.”
UFC women’s bantamweight Bethe Correia lost to champion Ronda Rousey on Saturday night at UFC 190. The fight was huge, in no small part because Correia took the trash talk to a new level. It was unfortunately a new level of low – Corriea said she hoped Rousey would not kill herself after the loss. Rousey lost her father to suicide, and was not impressed.
Correia then lasted longer than both of Rousey’s past two fights put together – 34 seconds.
At the post-fight press conference, Correia said she regrets nothing she said.
“I don’t regret anything,” said Correia, as transcribed by Damon Martin for FOX Sports. “Everything I said was very sincere. It was my point of view and what I believed in. I think I did a great job. The event was wonderful. It wasn’t the result that I wanted, but I think everything that I said was something that I thought.
“I’m a very sincere person and I don’t take back anything that happened. But of course this fight, I have a lot of lessons I learned. But I’m very satisfied with my job.”
“I think she felt my strikes and she tried to grab me and I defended her takedown. I thought I was doing the right things. In that moment I felt like she connected with the punch and that’s it. That’s the fight.”
Rousey said the matter is closed because the fight ended so definitively, and she does not expect Correia to get another title shot. Lest anyone come down too hard on Correia, the fault is ours, the fans. Fighter trash talk puts our asses in seats, and as long as that is true, and as long as fighters like to get paid, the trash talk will continue, and in all likelihood, get worse.