Former UFC commentator Jimmy Smith didn’t maintain again when discussing former girls’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey.
Smith took difficulty with Rousey’s latest feedback about her UFC departure and the way she believed UFC commentator Joe Rogan and the MMA media had turned on her after he loses to Holly Holm and Amanda Nunes.
“It was actually disappointing to see how fortunately all people turned on me and the way folks like Joe Rogan, who had been crying within the ring in regards to the honor of having the ability to name my fights, folks I thought of associates within the media so rapidly turned on me,” Rousey mentioned throughout an look on The Chris Cuomo Venture. “I additionally am type of grateful for it in a approach as a result of it pressured me to separate different folks’s notion of me from my very own notion of myself.”
Rousey had beforehand sat down for an interview with Valeria Lipovetsky earlier this month. Within the interview, she mentioned her UFC departure, the loss to Holm, and her historical past with concussions.
“My mouth guard was unhealthy. I actually got here into that struggle concussed from slipping down some stairs already in spite of everything these years of concussions,” Rousey mentioned about her loss to Holm. “Then, I had a fully horrible weight lower, which suggests you’ve gotten much less fluid in your mind to guard it.”
The feedback sparked articles within the media from the MMA media to mainstream shops. Loads of them categorized Rousey’s feedback as ‘excuses.’ In her interview with Cuomo, Rousey referred to as the MMA media ‘a**holes.’
“The MMA media hates me. Not a single particular person has referred to as me or something like that. They’ve all simply doubled down and mentioned that I am making excuses or mendacity or blowing issues out of propotion, or not giving credit score the place it is due. … I am not ready for it [the call] and I get that they seem to be a bunch of a**holes.”
After listening to Rousey’s feedback, Smith did not maintain again together with his response.
“I’ve by no means been a spiritual particular person,” Smith mentioned on Unlocking the Cage with Jimmy Smith. “One factor that’s all the time mentioned about God: He will get all of the credit score, not one of the blame. That’s what Ronda Rousey desires: all of the credit score, not one of the blame. ‘I would like credit score for all my wins. My losses, I had CTE and I had this and I had that. I’m the best to ever do it, however when it didn’t work, it was so and so and by no means me.’
“She by no means offers credit score to the individuals who really beat her. The concept that (she) left MMA and went to the WWE as a result of (she) had concussion issues is not sensible.”
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Smith didn’t cease there. He went on to allege that the folks behind the scenes, the cameramen, the sound particular person, the interviewers, and others could not stand Rousey.
“The folks behind the scenes, digicam folks, audio folks, the folks you may push round and the folks you may bully and the folks you may speak all the way down to can’t stand (her) f*cking ass,” Smith mentioned. “All people behind the scenes that needed to put a mic on Ronda Rousey couldn’t stand her. I mentioned why? They mentioned, ‘She was a b*tch to us from the second she sat all the way down to the second she acquired up. Prefer it’s our fault she has to do that interview to hype her subsequent struggle. And she or he’s simply depressing, and he or she’s imply to us, and we will’t stand her.’
“They had been cheering when she acquired knocked out. That is what I used to be instructed. These are the folks you will be imply to and impolite to, and so they can’t struggle again. These folks couldn’t stand Ronda Rousey, so don’t sit right here and inform me that you simply’re the sufferer when the poor man sitting behind the digicam is doing his job will get sh*t on by you, otherwise you’re imply to the particular person asking you questions after we’re hyping your struggle. Don’t give me this sufferer sh*t.”
