A day before her UFC women's bantamweight title defense, Ronda Rousey has come out swinging.
The biggest name in MMA defended her comments from her autobiography in which she talked about a physical altercation with an ex-boyfriend over nude photos he took of her.
Domestic Violence Double Standard Question Arises In Ronda Rousey's Admission
Responding to claims that Rousey's actions -- in which she beat up fellow MMA fighter Timothy DiGorrio for taking the photos without her consent -- resembled some of the domestic violence issues in Floyd Mayweather's past, Rousey insulted those making any such inferences.
"I don't have to make every single one of my actions idiot proof," Rousey said, according to ESPN. "If an idiot can't understand it, it's not my problem."
Ronda Rousey Projects Her Own Media Distaste Onto Holly Holm
Rowdy has been outspoken about the boxing champion's issues with domestic violence. Of her own incident, which she volunteered in her new book, "My Fight/Your Fight," she said her actions were borne out of self-defense.
"I was in that situation before when I was in a movie theater and my exit was blocked, people wouldn't let me out," Rousey said at media day for Saturday's UFC 193 at Etihad Stadium in which she will defend her bantamweight title against Holly Holm. "You legally cannot do that. It's considered a self-defense scenario.
"So if someone is blocking you into an apartment and won't let you leave, you're entitled to defend yourself and find a way out. If you're trying to get into your car and leave and they're grabbing your steering wheel and saying you can't leave, technically you're being kidnapped, and you can defend yourself in any way that is necessary."
In her book, however, Rousey said she exited the driver's side of the car, went around the vehicle and dragged DiGorrio out of the vehicle by the neck of his sweatshirt, leaving him "writhing" on the sidewalk as she drove away.
That doesn't sound like DiGorrio was kidnapping her. If he had punched her and authorities were called, he certainly would've been labeled with a domestic violence abuser tag.
Based on Rousey's account, it appears as if she had an opportunity to call the police without fear of DiGorrio becoming physical with her.
During Ray Rice's 2014 domestic violence incident with fiancée Janay Palmer, both he and Palmer originally were arrested for simple assault, NJ.com reported. Janay, now Rice's wife, does not bear any kind of label as domestic abuser.
Had DiGorrio engaged with Rousey, he, not Rousey, would've been deemed the abuser. That's the double-standard the media addressed.
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