By Allan Fox:
UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion Ronda Rousey says she planned her verbal attack on superstar Floyd Mayweather Jr. for over a year before she got her chance to slam him this week after she beat him out in a competition to win this year’s ESPY award.
When interviewed after receiving the award, Rousey used the opportunity to make a negative comment about Mayweather saying “I wonder how Floyd feels being beat by a woman for once. I’d like to see him pretend to not know who I am now.”
Rousey’s mark was clearly meant as a poke in the ribs of Mayweather for the alleged domestic violence, but what was behind all of this was Mayweather telling an interviewer last year that he didn’t know who Rousey was when asked her. Mayweather didn’t even seem to know that Rousey was a female because he referred to her as a he instead of a she. Rousey thinks Mayweather knew who she was, and she thinks he did this to take a shot at her.
“I knew for damn sure he [Mayweather] knew who I was,” Rousey said via MMA weekly. “His feigned ignorance and his snarky remark. All the media is trying to create a rivalry out of it. I don’t let these kinds of things slide. I’m a patient girl, and I waited to respond at the most appropriate time where I thought I could make the biggest impression.
I’m not the kind of chick you make snarky remarks about. So I waited a whole year to say something. If I didn’t win the best fighter of the year this year, I would have waited two years or I would have waited three years. I would have waited for the exact time so that I could have said that. Yeah, I thought it would get a big reaction, and I got a fight to sell. Great timing, eh? I’m not dumb. I’d be interested to see what he had to say, but I’m not surprised I didn’t hear anything at all,” Rousey said.
Waiting an entire year to get a jab at Mayweather seems a bit much. Who waits a year to try and get even for a small comment like the one Mayweather made? But then again, Rousey admitted in the above interview that she has a fight to sell and it obviously plays well for her to be getting a lot of attention right now with her pay-per-view match against Bethe Correia (9-0) coming up on August 1st at UFC 190.
Rousey said she was interested in hearing what Mayweather would say in response to her latest jab, but he’s not saying anything. If Mayweather keeps it alive by taking a shot at her in return, it will likely make Rousey’s match against Correia a bigger affair. It won’t hurt Rousey if Mayweather fires back at her. It’ll actually help her in a big way.
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