{"id":251317,"date":"2025-10-30T17:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/251317\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T17:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:04:07","slug":"bitter-ronda-rousey-mocks-sad-ufc-fans-for-still-worshipping-khabib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/251317\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitter Ronda Rousey mocks \u2018sad\u2019 UFC fans for (still) worshipping Khabib"},"content":{"rendered":"

It also didn\u2019t help that Rousey was routinely bashing the very machine that made her famous, and comments like this<\/a> didn\u2019t sit well with combat sports fans. You can\u2019t claim to be the baddest fighter on the block, then run through the airport with a pillow over your face<\/a> the second you stumble on the big stage. As far as the fair-weather fandom; well, all I can say is welcome to the wide world of sports.<\/p>\n

\u201cMMA fans and media are the most \u2018what have you done lately for us\u2019 crowd of any sport,\u201d Rousey told Bert Kreischer on his podcast<\/a> (transcribed by MMA Fighting<\/a>). \u201cYou look at WWE and they have such a reverence for their legends. In MMA, it\u2019s like the second that you\u2019re not on top, you\u2019re not sh*t and you never were sh*t. Chuck Liddell, when he\u2019s on top, \u2018He\u2019s the best, he\u2019s the best.\u2019 The second that he loses, \u2018Oh Chuck Liddell ain\u2019t sh*t, he never was sh*t. Anderson Silva, oh my God he was almost like a mythical creature for a while. He was like this ninja, and he would hypnotize everyone in front of him. The second he loses, \u2018Anderson ain\u2019t sh*t, he never was sh*t.\u2019 Fedor Emelianenko, one of the greatest ever. The second he loses, \u2018Fedor ain\u2019t sh*t, he never was sh*t.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the only reason why MMA fans have their lips so firmly planted at the base of Khabib\u2019s c*ck is because he retired before he reached his limit,\u201d Rousey (12-2) said. \u201cIf he kept fighting until he reached his limit, everybody would be \u2018Khabib ain\u2019t sh*t, he never was sh*t\u2019. They\u2019re like that with everybody. Name one person. \u2018Brock [Lesnar] ain\u2019t sh*t, he never was sh*t.\u2019 Name one past champion that has the kind of respect that the current champions do. It\u2019s really sad because I think it encourages people to get out while they\u2019re peaking and leaving and taking all of that equity with them instead of passing it on to whoever\u2019s next to take up the mantle.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It also didn\u2019t help that Rousey was routinely bashing the very machine that made her famous, and comments…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-251317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}