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Ronda Rousey on Cris Cyborg: "The best that she has isn't good enough, even on drugs"
Sep 17, 2014 - 11:40:36 AM Ronda Rousey on Cris Cyborg: "The best that she has isn't good enough, even on drugs"

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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief

Ronda Rousey is in Brazil this week, and on Tuesday she took further shots at longtime verbal rival Cris Cyborg in an interview with Brazilian media.

Conversations continue to turn to a future fight between the two of them, and because of that, Rousey gave her thoughts on Cyborg's skill set, and why she thinks there's not much more than strength to Cyborg's game.

"She was fighting, it was a while ago, and she just got dropped five times in a match. And really, to be honest, I haven't been really too impressed with her actual skill set," Rousey said (via MMAFighting.com). "It's only her strength that she draws off. If you remember when she fought Gina [Carano], she pulled her into mount two different times. Those are very grievous technical mistakes. The mistakes that she makes technically are absolutely terrible and basic. The only reason why she gets away with it is because of her strength, and people don't realize how strong I actually am. Ask the girls that I've fought. They weren't expecting this. Because I don't look like it, it doesn't mean I don't have it."

"She doesn't have any feeling in her punches, she pushes her punches. She can't knock people out with one punch, she just overwhelms them. My pace, nobody can overwhelm me. And the way that she is on the ground, it's absolute horrendous. And her distance is absolute horrendous. The only thing that she has is pace and power, and I have pace, precision and power."

Beyond her questioning Cyborg's power, Rousey again went after Cyborg with PED accusations, and said that's the reason she's delayed attempting the drop to bantamweight and entering the UFC.

"I think that everybody has something, and I think that she would still be a great competitor at 135 lbs., but I think that she knows that it would be much harder for her to get away with doping and to make weight at 135 lbs. That's why she resisted for so long. But then when she saw she had no other options, she started cutting down."

"But she's still outside the organization, going outside the country. I'm sure she's trying to dope as long as possible and then come into the UFC," she continued. "But it doesn't matter. I grew up fighting in judo and I knew there were people out there doping, but I never used that as an excuse to do it. I just wanted to beat them despite of it. You know what, you can have every advantage in the world over me, you can have better funding, you can have a better program, be on all the drugs in the world, but I'm gonna be good enough to beat you despite of it.

"The reason why people dope is because they lack self-confidence. The reason why she was using steroids is because that girl does not believe that the best that she has is good enough, and that will always be there in her mind. And you know what, she's right. The best that she has isn't good enough, even on drugs."

Penick's Analysis: Cyborg needs to make her way down to 135 lbs., and then she needs to get into the UFC, because it's a fight that should happen. They both want it, they've done tons of talking between the two of them, and with the continued PED accusations levied by Rousey, Cyborg will want a shot at redemption.