Chael Sonnen har inte mycket positivt att säga om Ronda Rousey.
Den forne UFC-fightern Chael Sonnen fortsätter med sina kontroversiella uttalanden. Han medverkade nyligen i Submission Radio där han diskuterade Ronda Rousey och kvinnlig MMA.
Sonnen anser att Rousey är en vekling som blivit hypad som fighter av media. Sonnen börjar med att berätta vad han tycker om kvinnlig MMA och judo:
”So here’s the deal with Ronda. Ronda goes out, she’s in a division that if you wanna be, you know, if you’re a top 15 fighter at any point in your life, that’s a lifetime achievement.”
”In that division, if you wanna be top 15, all you have to do is make the weight class and raise your hand. There are not 15 girls on planet earth that are fighting. It’s a really rare thing.”
”So the division, you know, when a division sucks and you’re an analyst and you wanna be respected in the sport, you can’t come out and say a division sucks. It doesn’t sound right, particularly when you talk about women. So you have to change your words and say ’well the division is developing’. So gentlemen, I will say to you now… the division is developing.”
”Look, she’s a solid, durable fighter, but the truth on Judo, guys, is Judo has never had a level of effectiveness in MMA. There’s never been a Judo champion in the history of the UFC. There’s never been anybody even close. There’s never been somebody that fought for the title that was a Judo practitioner. There was never anybody in an elimination fight that was a Judo practitioner. It’s a terrible, ineffective form of combat, and if you knew the history of Judo you’d lose all your respect for it. I’ll tell you it real quick if you want it, but Judo is very ineffective. So you have Ronda, that’s a really good competitor, but she comes from a sport that’s just not very effective.”
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