Dana White: I love Rousey, she’s as tough and nasty as it comes
UFC president Dana White sees a parallel between women’s MMA and the UFC’s newly adopted flyweight division. “My thing with…
UFC president Dana White sees a parallel between women’s MMA and the UFC’s newly adopted flyweight division.
“My thing with the female fighting is that I love Ronda Rousey, man,” said White. “She’s as tough and as nasty as it comes. I love Ronda, but I think Ronda is one of those girls that’s up here. You have a lot of girls who compete in the sport that aren’t on her level.
“It’s not about having women’s fights. It’s about having enough good women in a division.”
It’s not a gender thing – the UFC adopted 125-pound flyweights to the men’s divisions only this year.
In time, the women’s divisions could follow suit, he said.
“I think after you’ve seen these two (Johnson and McCall) fight, and you know Benavidez, you know who the top three fighters are in the world, and then there’s a whole list of guys under them,” White said. “If you had a whole division, there’s a lot you could do.
“But we don’t have that in the women’s divisions yet.”