Earlier this week UFC superstar Ronda Rousey, the women's bantamweight champion, said that she believes she could defeat boxing king Floyd "Money" Mayweather in a mixed martial arts fight.
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"I wouldn't even stand up, I wouldn't even be anywhere near him. I would just do like a little army crawl over there, and he would have to run away," Rousey said.
"I would just be skittering after him like the one dude in Bloodsport that was doing the whole monkey crawl fight system. I would do that. I would just bear crawl over there too low for him to hit me, and I'd tackle him down.... I spent a lot of time [on the ground], and I doubt that he does."
The comments don't seem to indicate any intent on Rousey's part to disparage Mayweather, as some MMA fighters in the past have done, and fellow boxer Bernard Hopkins agreed with "Rowdy."
"Rousey would indeed beat Mayweather in an MMA match because Floyd would be out of his element," Hopkins said. Hopkins' credentials to weigh in are weighty; as a current champion he is the oldest fighter in boxing history (49) to win a strap.
Still, if Rousey encountered boxing's pound-for-pound king she'd probably decide against engaging in combat. As the UFC's biggest star these days, with upcoming movie roles in major films like Fast & Furious 7 and The Expendables 3, she could take a few pointers from "Money" about growing her brand.
"He is someone I aspire to be very much like in a business sense," Rousey said. "I try to take every lesson that I can, and my coach definitely tries to throw some stylistic things my way that he also learned from him."
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