Ronda Rousey may have won her most recent fight in 14 seconds but she is certainly being kept busy in the weeks following the her last octagon outing. The UFC women’s bantamweight champion is being paraded across New York to promote the legalization of mixed martial arts in the only state left in the USA yet to allow professional MMA.
Most recently, Rousey appeared on Good Morning America, where she immediately delved into the concern regarding New York’s ban on professional MMA and how that negatively impacts potential fighters in the state.
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“MMA isn’t actually banned,” said Rousey. “It is professional MMA that is banned. I think around 1600 New Yorkers competed in MMA in New York just this past year but only in amateur events. There is no athletic commission to do any sort of medical testing for them, no drug testing; the women that competed had no pregnancy tests, and even the referees aren’t educated.
“It is the most dangerous place in the U.S. to do MMA. It anyone gets hurt, it will be on the politicians who didn’t take steps to protect them.”
Rousey went on to discuss the “ridiculous” notion that MMA is “anti-woman,” and suggested that she would not have become the sport’s biggest star had that truly been the case.
“There are so many ridiculous arguments that MMA is somehow anti-woman,” Rousey explained. “Fighting is not a man’s thing, it is a human thing. To say that it is anti-woman is an anti-feminist statement.”
“I’m the biggest draw in the sport and I’m a woman. How is it anti-woman?”
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