UFC champion Ronda Rousey has never been one to bite her tongue when approached about a topic she has strong personal feelings about. One such subject is the importance of outside factors on a fighter’s popularity, crediting much of her own success to the fact she is not only a skilled competitor but an attractive female.
In a similar vein, Rousey recently offered up her thoughts on welterweight king Georges St-Pierre to the Las Vegas Review Journal, stating the longtime title-holder’s star-power would be vastly different without a few factors in place unrelated to his accomplishments in the cage.
“I respect Georges St. Pierre as a businessman and an athlete. I don’t have anything against him personally. But he’s not the kind of fighter I like watching.”
“Everybody keeps coming up to me and saying, ‘Oh, do you think if you didn’t look such a way, people would like you so much?’ I’m like, ‘Dude, if GSP was butt ugly, you wouldn’t want to know who he is so much.’”
“I think he lucked out a lot that he’s Canadian. I love Canadians. They are the coolest, nicest, most patriotic people, and they will support their countrymen no matter what, and I think that’s commendable.”
“But if GSP wasn’t really good-looking, and really Canadian, he would be really unknown.”
SOURCE: Las Vegas Review Journal
PHOTO CREDIT: STRIKEFORCE
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strong statement for a biggot r.r maybe she should stop being a butch and find some girls to pick on and the bully attitude instead of profesional instead of humble has me peukeing in my mouth more often than not when i here or seeing her articles im not trying to be a ass but with my experiance with women girls like her fart alot she prob wishes she was a man and probably has complex with wishing she was her older brother people are weird. lol
RR needs to back off GSP
hmmm she should be careful….she does not want to piss of canadians..lol
is it me or was that a back handed compliment