Rousey: Cyborg should be charged with attempted homicide
Ronda Rousey: “”I’ll do it, I’ll beat [Cris Cyborg], it’s just, I mean, that girl in my eyes should be charged with attempted negligent homicide.”
Women’s UFC champion Ronda Rousey has been very local about potential future opponent Cris Cyborg. Rousey recently appeared on the MMA Hour to discuss a fight with Cyborg and why she feels Cyborg should be charged with attempted homicide:
“If [a fight with Cyborg] happens or not, whatever,” Rousey said. “I’ll do it, I’ll beat her, it’s just, I mean, that girl in my eyes should be charged with attempted negligent homicide. Coming into the cage with performance-enhancing drugs is the equivalent of walking in there with a weapon.”
MMA’s issues with PEDs seem to be getting worse. In other sports, an athlete’s PED use simply enables them to hit a ball farther or run faster, but in the case of MMA, another human being is taking damage as the result of such usage. Rousey fears the results of a worst-case scenario.
“The only reason we’re even allowed to do MMA is, given potential for how it is right now, we can say it is safe,” Rousey said. “But if you keep putting PEDs in people, it’s going to become less and less safe, and the day somebody dies in that Octagon, and the other person tests positive for steroids, you’re going to have your first murder case in MMA and that is going to be the kind of thing that destroys the sport. It could destroy the sport forever.”