Fedor Dismisses Women In MMA, Dana Talks Rousey Beating Up Men, Would Urijah Faber Fight Dillashaw?
- Former heavyweight champion Fedor Emelianenko is not a fan of female's competing in the sport he once dominated. Emelianenko, who retired following a 2012 knockout victory over Pedro Rizzo, expressed his thoughts on the matter during a recent interview, which you can hear in the video above.
"I respect the girls who defend the country's honor at the Olympics. In wrestling, boxing," he said, "but I do not support female MMA. A woman must raise her children and be feminine. There are a lot of different sports which help her in that. But MMA is not one of them."
Emelianenko (34-4) was unbeaten for nine years before suffering a submission loss to Fabricio Werdum in 2010. He was also finished by both Antonio Silva and Dan Henderson – all inside the Strikeforce cage – before finishing out his career with three consecutive victories.
- UFC president Dana White continues to discuss Ronda Rousey in great detail. During a recent interview with EsNewsReporting.com, White confirmed the stories of the UFC female bantamweight champion taking on two men outside of a movie theater.
"This is a true story," White said. "(Rousey) got into a street fight with two huge guys in a movie theater. She hurt them both so bad they went to the police department and filed charges against her. That was before she started fighting. That was when she was doing Judo alone."
Rousey will defend her title in July against Alexis Davis at UFC 175. She is unbeaten in her MMA career and a former bronze medalist at the Summer Olympics in Judo.
Rousey herself has explained the "incident" in detail before, stating that a girl was placing her feet on her chair at the movie and pushing her head. She stated that, after being cornered by the men, she punched one in the face several times.
- Team Alpha Male now holds the UFC bantamweight title, but it's not around the waist of Urijah Faber. Instead, T.J. Dillashaw is the man, and Faber doesn't sound too interested in locking horns with his teammate.
"I don't want to," said Faber, during a recent interview on UFC Tonight, when asked about fighting Dillashaw. "Would you want to fight him? It's a fight I wouldn't want to do. It'd have to be a special circumstance."
Faber lost twice to Renan Barao for the title, while Dillashaw earned a fifth round TKO victory over him last month.