She said she said Ronda tore into PVZ
Miesha Tate: “Ronda Rousey came up and was like ‘F*** you, you fairweathered b****. How dare you cross me.”
UFC women’s bantamweight champion Miesha Tate appeared recently on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, and said that former champion Ronda Rousey verbally tore into UFC featherweight Paige VanZant over a perceived slight. Tate said the story came directly from PVZ herself.
“So Paige was also at that VIP party, and Paige and I have spoke, we’re friendly,” said Tate, as transcribed by Tim Burke for BE. “Don’t know her that well. Anyway, she felt the need, she came up to me like ‘Miesha Miesha Miesha, I have to tell you this experience I had with Ronda.’ I’m like ‘Oh, what?’ And she’s like ‘Well we were at a Reebok deal just recently, and we were at a shoot, and I was trying to find her so we could get a picture, and the Reebok people were like ‘Don’t ask Ronda for a picture.” She was like ‘Why?’ They were like ‘Don’t, just stay away from Ronda, don’t ask her for a picture.’ She was like ‘Okay…’.
“And I guess Ronda came later that day and seeked her out. And just cussed her out. They’ve never really had a conversation either. She’s like ‘I don’t know Ronda other than hi, bye.’ That’s it. I guess she came up, Ronda came up and was like ‘F*** you, you fairweathered b****. How dare you cross me.’ [Paige] was like ‘Cross you? What are you talking about?’ And [Rousey] is like ‘You congratulated Holly Holm for beating me, so f*** you, you f***ing fairweathered 115-pound…” She just went off on Paige.
“Paige came and told me and I was like ‘Honey, welcome to my world.’ She was like ‘Oh my God. I’m glad that I saw this side of her so that I know.’ Because she didn’t understand. She told Ronda ‘I’m sorry if that offended you, but I’m allowed to congratulate whoever I want. I congratulated Rose Namajunas when she beat me. I was like Rose, congratulations, you whooped my ass. That was a badass performance. I just simply told Holly congratulations, and it wasn’t anything anti-Ronda.’ But Ronda just ripped her a new one.”
PVZ confirmed that something did indeed happen, in an interview with TMZ Sports, calling Rousey’s behavior “shocking.”
Miesha Tate fights Amanda Nunes at UFC 200 on July 11 in Las Vegas, Nevada.