Ronda Rousey and Cris ‘Cyborg’ Justino have been sniping back and forth for years now. For most of that time they’ve been separated by a weight class, now there’s a lot of recovery time in the way of any potential meeting with Cyborg on suffering a significant injury on the verge of dropping to 135.
But that isn’t stopping Rousey from taking shots at the Brazilian star, saying that she should be arrested and charged with attempted murder. Via MMA Fighting:
“If [a fight with Cyborg] happens or not, whatever,” Rousey said. “I’ll do it, I’ll beat her, it’s just, I mean, that girl in my eyes should be charged with attempted negligent homicide. Coming into the cage with performance-enhancing drugs is the equivalent of walking in there with a weapon.”
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“The only reason we’re even allowed to do MMA is, given potential for how it is right now, we can say it is safe,” Rousey said. “But if you keep putting PEDs in people, it’s going to become less and less safe, and the day somebody dies in that Octagon, and the other person tests positive for steroids, you’re going to have your first murder case in MMA and that is going to be the kind of thing that destroys the sport. It could destroy the sport forever.”
Of course, you can’t just stop with a rival. The UFC would have several fighters (including some current title challengers) awaiting trial if failing drug tests were enough to be charged with a crime.
And, who knows how good it would be for the sport if we had a monthly attempted murder charge to report on.
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