Yahoo Sports Bethe Correia Takes Cheap Shot at Ronda Rousey, Says She Hopes Rousey Doesn't Kill Herself
Since her second fight in the UFC, Bethe Correia has been gunning for a bout against women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey. After defeating two of Ronda’s training partners and friends, Jessamyn Duke and Shayna Baszler, Correia will finally get what she’s been asking for at UFC 190 on Aug. 1.
Correia has relentlessly trash talked the champion, but has recently taken things to another level. She’s attacked Rousey personally, brining up things revealed in Rousey’s book “My Fight, Your Fight.”
After coming up short of her Olympic Gold Medal dreams in the 2008 Games, Rousey turned to partying as an escape, as a coping mechanism.
Correia recently stated that she hopes Rousey doesn’t turn to drugs after she defeats her. But in a recent interview with the Brazilian outlet Combate, Correia crossed the line of what’s acceptable.
“I want to knock her out, show to everyone that she is a scam. She wants to stand up with me, let's see. I want to humiliate her and show the word she has no MMA,” she said.
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“She is focused on movies, books. I am much stronger, I come from a developing country, where people are struggling to survive, not to starve. It is very different from her life of reality. 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,” said the undefeated 31-year-old.
“When she feels my pressure, I want to see her reaction. She is not mentally healthy. She needs to take care of herself. 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 (laughs).”
Correia appears to be referencing Rousey’s deeply emotional loss of her father, who committed suicide after struggling for years following a debilitating back injury.
The comment was classless. It was a disgusting display of unsportsmanlike conduct that has no place in mixed martial artist, or sports in general.
