Det sedvanliga skitsnacket är igång i full rulle. Bether Correia är pigg på att dissa Ronda Rousey och tänker fortsätta med det tills att en vinnare koras i deras möte.
Bantamviktaren Correia tar sig an Rousey i augusti senare i år. Brassen tillika bantamviktaren berättar för The MMA Hour att hon planerar få Rousey brista ut i gråt i en femrondsbatalj. Detta berättar Correira för mmafighting.
”Ronda, you’re not the superheroine you think you are. You are a farce, and I’ll prove it on August 1,” sa Correia. ”I’ll give you the biggest beating of your life. I’ll make you suffer pain, I’ll make you cry in pain. I’ll humiliate you, and you’ll leave your belt here. You’re not a champion. I’m a champion. I invite you to try your MMA game because your judo is not going to work here. I’m gonna beat you up and everyone is going to see it.”
Correia har blått bälte i jiu jitsu och hon räds inte att ta kampen till marken, men hoppas att avsluta Rousey med en huvudspark.
”I don’t have any doubt that I’m going to win,” sa hon. ”I don’t see myself losing. It never crosses my mind. My faith doesn’t allow that. I see me knocking her out. If I end up submitting her, maybe she’ll give me a guillotine or something like that, I’ll take it, but I really want a knockout. I wanna knock her out with a head kick. I think it would be amazing. But if it doesn’t happen, I can do it with my hands. I just want to give her something that she has never tasted before.”
Inför UFC 179 i Rio de Janeiro, deltog båda kvinnorna i en presskonferens för att tillkännage mötet. Correia förutsätter att hennes fans ger en ett nationalistiskt stöd och stå bakom henne under UFC 190 och påstår att fans vill att Correia ska ta med sig Rouseys födelsemärke med sig hem.
”I think it will be more for me,” sa Correia på presskonferensen. ”It’s normal that she has fans all around the world. When I go to the UFC I’ve seen lots of fans coming at me, a lot of people from the US showing hate towards her and love towards me, so I don’t think there will be any more fans cheering for her than for me. Of course that are people that loves her, but when I walk on the streets there are people that stop me and say they want me to give them her mole as a gift. You can see how big this has become.”
”The Brazilian people want another Brazilian champion, they want a woman Brazilian champion. Even if they were her fan, in their hearts they want to see another Brazilian champion. The nation will be the priority here, and I’m pretty sure everyone will be cheering me when I take the title from her.”
Trots att Rousey har besegrat sina tre senaste motståndare under 96 sekunder kombinerat i alla tre matcher, betraktar Correia Rousey som inkomplett kampsportare. Enligt Correia är Rousey räd för stående kamp och säger att hon är rädd för att få en massa smällar på käften.
”I think she’s very insecure,” sa Correia. ”That’s why she only tries to use her judo. She doesn’t try anything regarding MMA because I think she’s afraid to lose. She’s afraid to get hit and that’s I think she has no confidence, so she only uses her judo. I’m here to show everyone that Ronda is a farce. She’s not a complete fighter and I will show it to everyone. Her game is not going to work with me. She’s going to try to use MMA and that’s my comfort zone. I will show everyone that I’m better than her and she will lose.”
”Every fight Ronda has the same thing, and her opponents are doing exactly the same thing,” she continued. ”They either rush to her, or they let her put them against the cage. Judo uses your own strength against yourself, and if you let her intimidate you on the cage you have nowhere to go. So everyone is doing the same mistake. But I’m studying Ronda, I’m studying her opponents, I’m studying myself, I’m studying everything. I won’t commit the same mistakes they do. I’m working to do everything different and to put on a show, a MMA clinic for everyone to see. I won’t accept her game, and her game is not going to work on me.”
På tal om utseende, tror Correia att det bästa för Ronda Rousey vore att lämna UFC bakom sig och satsa på en karriär som skådespelare i Hollywood.
Speaking of looks, Correia suggests Rousey leaves MMA to focus on her career in Hollywood.
”I don’t get sick to my stomach but I think she should invest more on this,” säger hon. ”She takes a lot of care about her looks, her beauty, but that means she’s in the wrong place. The Octagon is for people that aren’t afraid to get hurt, that doesn’t care if you have a scar or anything like that. If Ronda is afraid of getting a little scar on her face, she can invest in her career as a model, an artist, because there’s a champion here.”
Correia ses som en underdog, men snackar om en segerdans.
”Me beating Ronda, I’ll even dance Zumba, Hula Hula, anything,” skrattar hon. ”I’m already training some steps because I’m pretty sure I’m gonna win, so I’m already training for the celebration.”
