What Ronda snarled at Correia post KO
Ronda Rousey: “She was screaming in my face at weigh-ins, she was saying, ‘Don’t cry. So, I turned around after I knocked her out and said, ‘Don’t cry.'”
Muhammad Ali used to call the round he would win in.
He will be mine, in round nine, and I ain’t lyin’.
He must fall in eight, to prove that I am great.
He wanted to go to heaven, so I took him in seven.
If he’d be in a word of fix, I cut it to six.
If he keeps talkin’ jive, he will fall in five.
If he makes me sore, I’ll get him in round four, like before, with Archie Moore, on the floor.
If that don’t do, we’ll get him in two.
If he runs, we can get him in one.
If he don’t wanna fight, he should keep his ugly self at home that night.
Archie Moore did in fact fall in four.
Conor McGregor has borrowed a page from the Book of Ali, and raised the bet, literally, offering UFC co-owners Lorenzo Fertitta and Dana White a $3,000,000 bet that Mendes would lose by KO in Round 2. Mendes did of course lose by KO in Round 2.
UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey has gotten into the prediction business as well. After Correia said she hoped ‘Rowdy’ did not commit suicide after a loss, the champ, who lost her father to suicide, made a prediction.
“I just want to beat her in the most devastatingly embarrassing way possible,” said Rousey on the Jimmy Kimmel show. “I’m not afraid to let go of the hometown advantage. She’s much more than a hometown advantage away from beating me.”
That is how it went down, with the Brazilian crowd cheering rapturously for the American champion, as the challenger face planted, on an ad for Straight Outta Compton.
Then Rousey could be seen saying something to the prone Correia. At the UFC 190 post-fight press conference, Rousey was asked what she said.
I said the exact same thing she was saying to me at weigh-ins – she was screaming in my face at weigh-ins, she was saying, ‘Don’t cry,'” explained Rousey. “So, I turned around after I knocked her out and said, ‘Don’t cry.'”
If there is any consolation for Correia, it is a small one. The Internet rumor that she had pooped her shorts was just an ignorant photoshop.
Next target of Rousey’s predictions will be Miesha Tate, in a trilogy fight.