UFC superstar Ronda Rousey has put two of combat sports other biggest names, Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather Jr on blast for their obsession with the financial side of the fight game.
In an interview with ESPN, Rousey took aim at her male counterparts while explaining how money doesn’t neccessarily equate to happiness.
“I was just trying to make too many people happy,” Rousey said. “But when I try and do favors and make everybody else happy, at the end of the day, they walk away happy and I’m the one who has to deal with the depression. All the pay-per-views in the world, all the money in the world, it means f*cking nothing to me because I lost.”
“If money is the motivation, then f*ck you. All these Money people. … Money [Floyd] Mayweather, Money [Conor] McGregor. I see they’re trying to do an angle or whatever. People buy it. … The worship of money in our society is so deep. But just because that’s the easiest way to keep people’s attention or entertain them doesn’t mean that’s the right way.”
When Rousey last fought she was essentially neck and neck with McGregor in terms of her drawing and earning power, but ‘The Notorious’ has skyrocked in popularity in her absence over the past year and is now far and away the UFC’s biggest star, having smashed their PPV record on two separate occasions in 2016.
That being said, there hadn’t been any animosity between Rousey and McGregor up to this point, with McGregor actually having been publicly supportive of ‘Rowdy’s’ impending return to the Octagon at UFC 207 on December 30th.
“I wish Ronda nothing but the best, it’s good to see her back,” McGregor said after news of Rousey’s fight with Nunes first broke. “Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses. I’m happy she is ready to go again and I wish her well.”
“Go and shut these people up now. Go and get what you began back. I’m excited to see how it unfolds.”
