Correia: I will make ‘farce’ Ronda Rousey cry
Bethe Correia: “I’ll give you the biggest beating of your life. I’ll make you suffer pain, I’ll make you cry in pain. I’ll humiliate you, and you’ll leave your belt here.”
Bethe Correia is a perfect 9-0 in her professional career, but faces the stiffest test of it when she fights Ronda Rousey at UFC 190 for the women’s bantamweight title.
For her part, Correia is confident heading into the bout and believes that she can be the first person to defeat the also undefeated Ronda Rousey:
“Ronda, you’re not the superheroine you think you are. You are a farce, and I’ll prove it on August 1,” Correia said through a translator. “I’ll give you the biggest beating of your life. I’ll make you suffer pain, I’ll make you cry in pain. I’ll humiliate you, and you’ll leave your belt here. You’re not a champion. I’m a champion. I invite you to try your MMA game because your judo is not going to work here. I’m gonna beat you up and everyone is going to see it.”
A blue belt in jiu-jitsu, Correia won’t shy away from fighting Rousey on the ground, but hopes to finish the champion with a head kick.
“I don’t have any doubt that I’m going to win,” she said. “I don’t see myself losing. It never crosses my mind. My faith doesn’t allow that. I see me knocking her out. If I end up submitting her, maybe she’ll give me a guillotine or something like that, I’ll take it, but I really want a knockout. I wanna knock her out with a head kick. I think it would be amazing. But if it doesn’t happen, I can do it with my hands. I just want to give her something that she has never tasted before.”