Dana's prediction? Pain.
LAS VEGAS -- Ronda Rousey isn't even in Sin City this week. She spent most of the week in Cannes, France, promoting the new "Expendables" film after strings were pulled by Hollywood bigwigs to get the UFC women's bantamweight champ there for promotion. She isn't present, yet her presence always seems to be felt.
All along the walls of the MGM Grand press room, giant banners of the UFC champions hang. So Rousey was never very far from attention.
The Californian has her next fight lined up, Alexis Davis on July 5 at UFC 175, but that hasn't stopped all of the hypothetical debate over Rousey against current pound-for-pound boxing king Floyd Mayweather. It's a fight that will never happen, of course. No commission would sanction it, and they're not even in the same sport, but that hasn't stopped the speculation.
UFC president Dana White, for one, isn't backing off his position: Of course, Mayweather would dominate Rousey in his own sport, White said, but put Mayweather in an octagon, and he's a fish out of water. Not only would Rousey win, but she'd win big.
"Listen I get it. It's hard for guys to wrap their brains around that one," White said in his UFC 173 pre-fight media scrum. "Ronda wouldn't beat him. She'd hurt him badly. She'd hurt him badly."
White said the only people who doubt that are men who blindly believe men will always beat women in combat sports. But anyone with any real experience in training MMA knows better, he believes. Mayweather, with no experience in anything other than boxing, would go for a ride and maybe get an arm ripped off.
"She'll kick the living s*** out of me. And you. And everybody else standing here, whether you like it or not," White said.
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