Even Greg Hardy didn't have the audacity to publicly describe the events that unfolded in the situation that led to his domestic violence conviction.
UFC women's bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey, who will defend her title Saturday night in Australia against Holly Holm in UFC 193, has stirred a controversy over comments she made that were published in her autobiography, "My Fight, Your Fight," according to The Washington Post.
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She described a scene in which she discovered that her then-boyfriend Timothy DiGorrio, a fellow MMA fighter, had taken nude photos of her.
Referring to DiGorrio as "Snappers McCreepy," Rousey said she slapped him so hard that her hand hurt and then launched into more graphic detail about her revenge.
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"I punched him in the face with a straight right, then a left hook," she writes. "He staggered back and fell against the door. [Expletive] my hands, I thought. I can't hurt them before a fight.
"I slapped him with my right hand. He still wouldn't move. Then I grabbed him by the neck of his hoodie, kneed him in the face and tossed him aside on the kitchen floor."
She wrote that she ended when she tried to leave in her car and he jumped in the passenger seat, trying to explain himself.
"I walked around the car, pulled him by the neck of the hoodie again, dragged him onto the sidewalk and left him writhing there as I sped away."
According to the Post, the Justice Department defines domestic violence "a pattern of abusive behavior that is used by one partner to gain or maintain power and control over another intimate partner."
If that's the case, is what Ray Rice did to his then-fiancée considered domestic violence? There is no evidence of a "pattern."
The slippery slope is the gender issue. Rousey, like U.S. Women's National Soccer Team goalkeeper Hope Solo, are both elite athletes, but both are female. Solo was accused of attacking her sister and her 17-year-old nephew.
Rousey says she attacked an MMA fighter. Where the line is drawn is the issue.
"I'm not comfortable with her behavior," Kim Pentico of the National Network to End Domestic Violence told Yahoo. "What I am absolutely not willing to say is she's committed domestic violence without speaking with him and learning more about that relationship."
Again, how is that different than Rice's incident with Janay Palmer, other than gender. Does gender need to be written into the definition?
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