Rousey: I will worry about Cyborg later
Ronda Rousey: “As you’ve seen with Pacquiao and Mayweather, sometimes its a good thing to build up the anticipation…I’lll worry about [Cyborg] later.”
It was recently announced that Cris Cyborg will return to action at the next Invicta, defending her featherweight title against Charmaine Tweet. That fight will take place the night before Rousey defends her bantamweight title against Cat Zingano, but will be of no distraction to Rousey, who won’t worry about Cyborg until she needs to:
“I’m just really focused on Cat and that’s it,” Rousey said in an interview on FS1 Saturday night. “Cyborg has tried to show up at my weigh-ins before, Which I didn’t even notice. She showed up at the [Sarah] Kaufman weigh-ins [A 2012 Strikeforce fight in San Diego] and tried jumping up and getting my attention, but I was so focused on Kaufman I didn’t even see her.”
Rousey compared the long-discussed potential fight against Cyborg with the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao boxing superfight.
“I’ll deal with Cyborg when it’s time to deal with her, when she comes around, and when she’s tired of dragging this whole thing out,” Rouse said. “As you’ve seen with Pacquiao and Mayweather, sometimes its a good thing to build up the anticipation. So I’m going to beat Cat now and I’ll worry about her later.”