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Ronda Rousey opponent Correia threatens to rip her mole off, invokes suicide reference

Bethe Correia’s August 1st UFC 190 battle against Ronda Rousey will probably run shorter than the time it takes you to read the shit talk the former gave to Brazilian media outlet Combate.

I PROMISE YOU. I WILL BEAT RONDA AND I WILL ONLY NEED TWO PUNCHES TO DO KNOCK HER OUT. ONE TO RIP OFF HER MOLE AND THE OTHER TO ACTUALLY KNOCK HER OUT. YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT.

Ha-ha.

She went on:

UNDER PRESSURE, SHE IS PROVING WEAK. WHEN HER MOM PUT PRESSURE ON HER, SHE RAN AWAY FROM HOME. WHEN SHE LOST, IT WAS BECAUSE OF DRUGS. THAT’S NOT A SUPERHERO. SHE IS NOT MENTALLY HEALTHY, SHE NEEDS TO TAKE CARE OF HERSELF.

OK, fair is fair.

And then:

SHE IS WINNING, SO EVERYBODY IS AROUND HER CHEERING HER UP, BUT WHEN SHE REALIZES SHE IS NOT EVERYTHING THAT SHE BELIEVES SHE IS, I DON’T KNOW WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN… I HOPE SHE DOES NOT KILL HERSELF LATER ON.

That's rough. Ronda Rousey's book My Fight / Your Fight includes the following:

Rousey was born in Riverside County, Calif., with her umbilical cord wrapped around her neck. She was blue. Doctors revived her, but those crucial moments without oxygen led to developmental delays. She didn’t begin talking until she was 4 years old.

“At about 6, I began speaking coherently in sentences,” Rousey says. “They told me I had brain damage from the hypoxia. But when you’re a kid, your brain figures out a way to reorganize.”

Her beloved dad and namesake, Ron, encouraged her. “You’re a smart kid,” he’d say. “It’s not like you’re some f- -kin’ moron.”

Ron took her shopping for her first doll — a Hulk Hogan Wrestling Buddy, which she slept with every night. He took her hiking in the woods. At the end of each day, they’d sit together and watch the animal documentary series “Wild Discovery.”

When Rousey was 8, her father killed himself, committing suicide by asphyxia. He had suffered chronic, acute back pain since a freak accident a few years before, but no one saw it coming.

“None of us were the same after that,” Rousey says. Her father’s death was the most formative event of her life, and she almost never talks about it.

But she did after Correia's comment.


To which:


Interesting that she knew about mom and drugs...but not pops.

[David Young]

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