For anyone who doesn’t follow Strikeforce or Olympic judo, Ronda Rousey would have been an unfamiliar name until she recently appeared in the ESPN Body Issue. However, she earned that photoshoot by being 5-0 in her young MMA career and the reigning Strikeforce Bantamweight Champion. And yes, it also helps that she’s rather attractive.
Rousey is very well known for her trash talk as well, being one of the greatest living advertisements in Strikeforce history. So it makes sense that the guys at EsNews would press her for some golden quotes in a recent interview. The reporters asked her which celebrities she’d like to fight, and fed up with the irrelevant question, Rousey finally threw a name out there – Kim Kardashian.
I would beat the crap out of Kim Kardashian, actually. Any girl who is famous and idolized because she made a sex video with some guy and that’s all she’s known for.
Why is everyone slipping it under the cover now? “Oh yeah, she’s selling Skechers to thirteen year olds.” I don’t want some girl whose entire fame is based on a sex video to be selling Skechers to my thirteen year old sister. That’s the horrible kind of role model that I really do not want to be around, why I’m doing things like this: Because girls like Kim Kardashian are being pushed in my sister’s face, and it’s just not healthy. She shouldn’t even have role models like this. And that’s why I’m doing stuff like ESPN Body, because someone needs to do it, for god sakes. (Via Cage Potato)
And therein lies the debate – is Rousey better than Kardashian, the woman she accuses of achieving fame through pornographic means, because she won some fights before she posed somewhat nude for ESPN? The answer is yes. Rousey is much better. She won a bronze medal in Beijing in 2008, and that’s significantly more difficult than leaking a video of Brandy’s brother shooting babies on her chest.
Does that mean that girls should fight other girls because they don’t like them? No. That’s where I disagree with Rousey as a role model. So as long as she keeps the hatred non-violent, Rousey is A-OK with us.
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Ronda wouldn’t beat the crap out of Kim so much as she would dump Kim on her head and remove arms.
Khloe, on the other hand, could probably do damage.
Granted, Khloe is at least three weight classes above Rousey.
Khloe is three weight classes above Brock Lesnar.
“Careful Quick, you’re fuckin’ with a heavyweight!”
Della Reese (in her prime) would kill Khloe.
Kungjitsu
“Khloe is three weight classes above Brock Lesnar.”
Awesome.
be a star butter-face
Debate? There’s a debate? Rousey > KK. I’m not saying that because I’m a sports fan and this is a sports blog. I’m not saying it because Kim has never done anything worthy of note except for taking it from behind on video. I’m saying it because… um… Okay, I’m saying it for exactly those reasons.
Also – Ronda has already defeated a lady known for her ass in Miesha Tate (Well, also her nose, the fact that she’s dating Bryan Caraway, maybe was or wasn’t kicked out of Team Alpha Male and was the previous Strikeforce Women’s Bantamweight champion)
Disputes between women should be settled with kissing, not fighting.
God, I love this woman.
Somewhere, far off in the distance, Khloe’s balls just tingled.
I agree with anything Meisha Tate and Rhonda Rousey have to say about anything.
So a woman that 99% of the population never heard of until she took off her clothes for ESPN is criticizing another woman who 99.9% of the population for taking off her clothes and get nailed? Only in America!
I’m not sure what’s more annoying and old: Carly Rae Jensen parody songs or hating Kim K for something she did years ago and disregarding the tens of millions she’s made selling product.
Twilight made a lot of money too. Still doesn’t make it in any way redeeming.
And this is another reason why female fighting is a joke.
Can you imagine a male fighter being asked that question or taking it seriously? OK, maybe Rampage, but we all know he’s brain damaged.
I can imagine that, yeah. They’d probably be more likely to talk about action heroes or something, but they could also talk about Bieber or the Jonas Brothers or something.
Kinda weird. I definitely have a lot of contempt for Kim because of her vacuity and her “origin,” but Rousey’s comment about not wanting Kim Kardashian selling stuff to her teenage sister reminded me of the people who complained about Sasha Grey reading to schoolkids, which pissed me off (the complaints, that is). So I’m anti-Kim but pro-Sasha, even though the two situations are kind of the same. The only real difference is the fact that Sasha definitely owns her pornographic roots, where Kim never really seems to acknowledge that the sex tape is the progenitor of all her success; but I don’t know if that difference is big enough to really justify my anti-Kim-ness. I guess it’d be easier to just let the sex tape be in the past if I could read an interview with Kim wherein she said something like, “I understand that the sex tape is probably the only reason I’m where I am today, but I feel proud of myself and my family for being able to parley that into the pop cultural phenomenon that we’ve become.”