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UFC Champ Ronda Rousey calls Cris "Cyborg" an "it," says "she could ruin the whole sport"
Apr 19, 2014 - 2:15:45 PM UFC Champ Ronda Rousey calls Cris "Cyborg" an "it," says "she could ruin the whole sport"

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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief

"I've said before, I don't care if she's injecting horse semen into her eyeballs, I'll fight her, but that's just my personal decision. But I can't make a decision for the whole division. I can't say it's the right thing. This girl has been on steroids for so long and [has been] injecting herself for so long that she's not even a woman anymore. She's an 'it.' It's not good for the women's division. It's not good at all.

If she comes in the UFC and I beat the [expletive] out of her and then I retire and become an action movie star, then the UFC is still going to be stuck with her. The division could die. She could ruin the whole sport. Even though it's a fight a lot of people want to see, even if I beat the living crap out of her, it won't be good for the sport because then she'd still be in the UFC.

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I'd be honored to fight a competitor like Gina, who is an example of what real respect and honor is in the cage. I really think with Cyborg taking all of those steroids and hormones and then going into the cage, it's like going in with a weapon. It's certainly very negligent, but it's also criminal. I believe, it really is. Promoting her would be promoting that act and I think it would be wrong in every way.

I think it should be like the Olympics. If you [expletive] up once, you're not going to the [expletive] Olympics. There should be a zero tolerance policy where if you're caught doing anything, you should be done [expletive] forever."

-UFC Women's Champ Ronda Rousey gives a harsh take on Cris "Cyborg" Justino in an interview with Kevin Iole at Yahoo! Sports.

Penick's Analysis: I understand the animosity between Rousey and Cyborg has reached these levels, but it doesn't speak well of the Champ to go the "it" route when discussing Justino. It's a baseless accusation to say she's been doing steroids for that long to begin with when there's one failed drug test against her. Now, you can make the argument that there should be zero tolerance on steroid use in the sport, and maybe there should be, but that one failed drug test doesn't warrant that type of comment. It's not surprising that Rousey would go with that type of comment, as she's not above that type of trash-talking. It's just unfortunate to see it out of a UFC Champ, especially when you know the UFC isn't going to do anything about it.