She is also a two-time U.S. Olympic judoka but prefers her new sport, which she has dominated in for a while now.
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When accepting the award, the MMA star said she wondered how Mayweather felt about getting “beaten by a woman for once” in a veiled reference to his history of domestic violence and arrests over the years.
GLENDALE, Calif. Moments after Mike Tyson stepped into the Glendale Fighting Club, Ronda Rousey grabbed her judo coach and abruptly flung him onto the canvas with an enormous bang.
This is not the first time Mayweather has been mocked for his domestic violence history by a fellow sports colleague. In 2011, the boxer even severed 60 days of a 90-day sentence in a correctional facility after attacking his then-girlfriend in front of their children.
Ronda Rousey capped Serena Williams, skier Lindsey Vonn and Connecticut’s three-time NCAA champion Breanna Stewart for the award to take home the Best Female Athlete ESPY, according to reports on ESPN. Rousey defends her UFC championship against Bethe Correia in Brazil at UFC 190 on August 1st, while Mayweather has started to train for his September 12th fight, which is expected to be his last. From Devon Still’s moving speech about his daughter to, of course, Caitlyn Jenner’s long speech about, well, everything that she has gone through in recent months, it was definitely worth watching the entire show. I saw her there and I was like “No girl!” “I don’t think me and him would ever fight unless we ended up dating”. But in my personal opinion, having more time I would have had a chance to weigh the pros and cons of coming back to school as well. The boxer’s camp reportedly denied press credentials for the Pacquiao fight to Nichols and other journalists who had repeatedly raised questions about his personal life.
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Rousey, 28, thought Mayweather was taking a dig at her by saying he didn’t know who she was. It would be very easy for her to have a big head, (to say), ‘I can beat anybody in this world. “It got a big reaction, and I’ve got a fight to sell”, she said.
