Ronda Rousey’s interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal has a lot of interesting moments — the sob story about how she’s too popular to go surfing, Ronda referring to her mom as both an “amazon matriarch” and the “biggest badass of all time, dude,” and a thing where she assigns X-Men characters to her family — but the best is the continuation of the weird Rousey/Georges St-Pierre feud she’s been trying to get off the ground for years.
Just before she starts on him again for being a ‘points fighter,’ she drops a soundbite that would make a legion of Tumblr girls ready their side-eye GIFs, assuming anybody on Tumblr pays attention to MMA: we only know who GSP is because he’s a sexy Canadian. You know, like Shania Twain.
She has, however, heard people compare her sex-appeal status to GSP’s.
“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.” (via Las Vegas Review-Journal)
If I’m GSP, my response to this is, “So what you’re saying is that I’m hot?”
Seriously though, in what part of Ronda Rousey’s brain does she think a ripped blonde from California who gets asked to take ass-first shots for ESPN The Magazine has to struggle for opportunity while a guy who looks like a Joe Rogan fantasy self-portrait and is from CANADA is celebrated for his beauty and lucky birthright?
If this was pro wrestling, it’d be building to an inter-gender match to unify the Welterweight and Women’s Bantamweight straps. It isn’t, though, so … Ronda Rousey’s kind of a jerk? Is that what we’re supposed to take away from this?
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I’ve never considered GSP attractive and I’m ‘merican (f-yeh!) yet for about 4 years he was my favorite fighter, so I’m not sure what she’s talking about.
However, if she would like to beat some sense into me while wearing the outfit she wears in that photo shoot, I’m willing to listen.
Ronda Rousey is not very bright.
I’m okay with that.
Ideally, MMA fighters should be as dumb as humanly possible so it will be less of a tragedy when their brains become scrambled
I mean, most MMA fighters should be dumb because it is a dumb sport to pick as a career.
ARMBAR!
She’s probably just kayfabe’in’ ya.
Apples and Oranges. GSP’s success because of his looks is completely different than Ronda Rousey’s success because of her looks. I don’t want to eat GSP’s pussy. (209 Bitch)
I still want Miesha Tate’s
Georges St Pierre – Welterweight Champion of the World, 7 consecutive title defenses, 10 straight victories
Ronda Rousey – not even 7 professional fights yet
Yeah GSP is probably skating by on looks
I don’t remember Armani throwing sponsorships at Wandy, Fedor, Liddell, Ortiz, Couture, Rutten or any other sub-human cage dweller. There are advantages to looking like Jon Jones, GSP, and Ronda Rousey.
Why isn’t Cain Velasquez on the cover of Men’s Health? It probably has something to do with him looking like he was found in a block of ice above the North Pole.
I wasn’t trying to imply that GSP hasn’t gotten opportunities because of his looks, just that he is also very good at MMA, much like Ronda Rousey. So to classify him as a pretty boy who is only relevant because he’s attractive is dismissive of his fighting record.
We also have to remember that a lot of the uggo champs were champs when MMA was still way off the global cultural radar. Yeah, Wand might have been huge in Japan (And has the weird commercials to prove it), but when Chuck was wrecking fools (And that’s another thing, a lot of those guys are considered finishers, while Georges is thought of as a boring grindy wrestler, which is dumb because Condit didn’t lose half his blood through snuggles), not many people knew what an MMA was.
Exhibit A: Matt Hughes.
Like Chael Sonnen after him, Matt was lucky.
Playing devil’s advocate for a second, without knowing the tone in which she said this couldn’t she try to be making the point “Quit trying to diminish my talent by talking about my looks, you wouldn’t do this for a fella”?
That’s what I got out of it but I could be giving her too much credit.
I thought Rousey taking shots at GSP’s fighting style was kinda neat.
“I lost a lot of judo matches because of points fighters. It was extremely frustrating for me. And when I see that same style being played out in a different sport, it brings out the same reaction in me.”
I don’t necessarily agree with Rousey’s stance, but I’m always happy when an athlete expresses an opinion. (I blame growing up in Canada and having to endure so many boring interviews with hockey players.)
Agreed on both counts. Georges has good, fun fights if you aren’t just “RARGH, STAND AND BANG, RARGH!” all the time.
I hope this ends in GSP and Rousey opening an MMA themed bed & breakfast where their styles clash but they learn from one another.
That would be great!
Two things to remember – 1. Ronda has been training at Cesar Gracie a lot recently (209, WHAT?!), so of course she’s going to back Nick/say GSP is “boring” and whatnot.
2. Georges said he’s too old fashioned and doesn’t like watching women fight, which pissed off Ronda, rightfully so. She’s probably still holding that grudge.
Keep it in your pants, Rousey! I haven’t seen someone blatantly go out of their way to tell a male athlete to do them like a truck since Giselle Bundchen called Tom Brady a twink for dating Bridgette Moynahan.
Yet another reminder that we should generally ignore the opinions of people with more concussions than birthdays, no matter how sexy AKA – above-average looking for their particular industry.