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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As we were watching UFC 154 on Saturday night, making hilarious quips and cyber high-fiving because we’re all awesome bros and babes, there was some excitement and chatter about something that wasn’t happening in the ring and in no way related to Brittney Palmer’s body. UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva and former light heavyweight champion Lyoto Machida were on hand to watch the highly-anticipated and much-celebrated return of welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre. Silva’s presence of course begged the question: “Yo, is he gonna challenge GSP?”

And the answer, as we all learned, was “Nah”. It turns out that Silva and Machida were in Canada to film a movie with Steven Seagal, which sounds horribly awesome and I can’t wait to see it when it goes straight to Laser Disc, which Seagal invented, by the way. But don’t let that discourage you from thinking that Silva vs. St-Pierre will happen, because Silva is at least saying all the right things.

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I don’t know about you fight fans, but I have seriously missed Georges St-Pierre, and I can’t think of many better ways for him to make his return at tomorrow night’s UFC 154 PPV event than by facing the man who took his place at UFC 143 and ultimately his Welterweight Championship. Hell, for the sake of brewing some excitement, let’s go ahead and say that Carlos “The Natural Born Killer” Condit also took St-Pierre’s wife, children and dog. How you gonna let another man just come in your house and take all your stuff, Georges?

Back in reality, though, I think it would be the understatement of the year to say that St-Pierre is fired up for this fight, and I predict with confidence that the pride of Quebec is going to get his gold back and remind everyone why he’s the baddest fighter this side of Mount Royal. That’s not to say that Condit doesn’t stand a chance, though. He’s a badass in his own right, but short of dipping his hands in glue and rolling them around in gummy bears broken glass, I don’t think he stands a chance.

UFC 154 also marks the equally important return of Arianny Celeste and Brittney Palmer, as they were stripped of their ring girl duties for UFC on Fuel 6 in Macau as a punishment for not pillow fighting enough. I really hope they learned their lessons, but if not, I’d be fine with another appearance by Jessica C. and Kang Ye-bin.

What’s that? The fights? Geez, you’re picky. Check out the full card after the jump, as well as Lobster Mobster’s handy dandy UFC 154 primer.

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The 2011-2012 Indianapolis Colts Survival Guide In Three Steps - Step 4: Completely stop playing until Peyton Manning comes back. Step 5: Black uniforms. [Smoking Section]

GSP Sucks At Track - This is like a Powerade commercial done in reverse, and reminds me a little of that episode of “Full House” where the guys have a footrace and Danny takes Joey into the octagon and beats the dogsh*t out of him. [Cage Potato]

Wild Card, Kitten Mittens, Green Man, Milk Steak, And F*ck Yeah Tumblrs: An Interview With Charlie Day - Whoever got us a Charlie Day interview, please, get me an interview with the guy who plays Cricket so I can ask him at least 50 questions about being The Hutch on “The Joe Schmo Show”. [UPROXX]

Texts From Pawnee, Where ‘Parks And Recreation’ Hilariously Meets Texts From Last Night - This show cannot return soon enough, although we’re entering the “when The Office started getting bad” season, so I’m remaining cautious. [UPROXX]

The Best And Worst Of WWE Raw 9/13 - Wrestling happened, and I’m going on vacation starting tomorrow afternoon, so read this ASAP. [With Leather]

Dwarf Who Played Gordon Ramsay in Porn Eaten By Badgers - Maybe the best headline of all time. Now if only someone could fill a failing restaurant with beavers and have them kill Robert Irvine. [Film Drunk]

Baby Cthulhu Is Adorable, Evil Incarnate - Man, Cthulhu is in everything now. When I was little, the only way I could get Cthulhu is by reading weird older people comic books. [Gamma Squad]

Here Is a Horse Pooping on Children’s TV - This wouldn’t be a big deal if the young people of today’s world weren’t all Rod and Todd Flanders. [Warming Glow]

Playboy October 2011 Issue Will Sell For 60 Cents! - If they want to be like Playboy from the 60s, maybe they can turn down the airbrushing a little. I can draw boobs on a napkin and have them look more realistic than what usually shows up in Playboy. [Buzzfeed]

Danny Glover one-ups the people who wear Crocs in public - He’s getting too old for this shirt. [FARK]

17 Things You Might Not Have Known About ‘The Lion King’ - I hate the Lion King so much. It was the first time in my life when I noticed something was a hacky rip-off, but nobody cared and told me things like “you think too much”! They should re-release The Lion King in 1D. [Moviefone]

Predicting How Many Episodes the Network TV’s New Fall Shows Will Last - USA shows passing off glancing white people as characters, 4-10 seasons. Everything else is already canceled. Stay tuned for season 14 of “In Plain Sight!” [Pajiba]

UFC 124 happened over the weekend, and Geogres St-Pierre made another convincing argument for him to be considered the strongest pound-for-pound fighter in mixed martial arts. GSP spent 25 minutes demolishing Josh Kostcheck (pictured) on his way to a unanimous decision in the main event of MMA’s biggest promotion.

Georges St. Pierre kept most of the fight up top and put on a striking clinic. GSP peppered Koscheck with jabs, strikes, knees, and kicks for about four of the five rounds. Koscheck got a brief takedown in Round 1, but the two didn’t go back to the ground until Round 4. GSP’s training with famed boxing trainer Freddie Roach obviously paid dividends because he was more fast, elusive, and accurate than in any of his past fights.

–Camel Clutch Blog.

And now we can listen to everyone refer to GSP as the San Antonio Spurs of the MMA. That is to say, the guy wins, but he’s boring. Most people are hoping that St-Pierre will put on weight and fight UFC middleweight champ Anderson Silva, and really, if dude has a chance to get fat for work, he should jump on it. Look how well it worked out for Russell Crowe.

This was on TSN, so it’s either really happening or all of Canada has lost their minds. I honestly am not sure which outcome is more probable. UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre and NHL tough guy Georges Laraque, who played in 25 games for the Montreal Canadiens before being cut last month.

“On the ice I would never go against him, he’s going to beat me and I agree with that 100 percent, but on the floor I have no problem,” GSP added.

St-Pierre currently weighs 190 pounds, while Laraque tips the scales at 270 pounds, something the former NHL tough guy thinks will work in his favour.

“I think because of the weight difference he’s going to have a hard time,” said Laraque. “I want to pick him up and body slam him.” –TSN [Canada]

Good luck with that, Georgie. I’d rather wrestle an alligator. At least that way, if things get out of hand, you can always get somebody to shoot the gator. The “match” is happening at St-Pierre’s Tristar gym in Montreal, and then after that, they should go to the Bell Centre and fight on ice skates, just to be fair. They’re all about fairness and sharing in Canada. I was in Windsor last month and I saw two homeless guys with half a beard each. What a country.