While UFC president Dana White reminds us Alistair Overeem and Cris Cyborg are very well cemented on his bad side, women's bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey seems to exist on a whole other plane of existence. <\/p>\n
Speaking with media at UFC headquarters in Las Vegas Thursday, White says Rousey is MMA's biggest star by a mile and that she's about to be paid like it, via Yahoo! Sports' Kevin Iole: <\/p>\n
\"She's the hugest superstar,\" White said of Rousey, who will defend her belt against Sara McMann at UFC 170. \"I'm going to go out and say she's the biggest star we've ever had.\" <\/p>\n
White said depending on how the pay-per-view results do on Feb. 22, Rousey, in just her third UFC fight, could break into the company's top 10 all-time in terms of career earnings. <\/p>\n
If Rousey's managed to achieve that premier status chiefly off a single rivalry bout with Miesha Tate, what sort of business could she manage fighting Cyborg? Still No. 1 in quite a few women's pound-for-pound rankings, Cyborg continues to insist competing at 135 pounds could do irreversible damage to her body. According to White, who, at one point challenged the room to defend Cyborg's claims of being free of performance enhancing drugs, seems to think her and Rousey don't even exist in the same universe. <\/p>\n
\"Ronda's never cheated, ever,\" White said. \"She's an Olympian. She's a world champion who has not only defended her [expletive] title, but I asked her to go back-to-back and she [expletive] did it. Coming straight off filming two [expletive] movies, a training camp. This girl, the other thing with this girl? She gets the [expletive] flu, gets sick, run down, [expletive] like she's going to die, and she still [expletive] trains through camp. <\/p>\n
\"I've got a big 6-foot-8 [expletive] musclehead whose rib hurts and won't [expletive] fight dos Santos. This chick does two movies back-to-back, fights, comes back in [expletive] camp, films 'The Ultimate Fighter,' [expletive] does all these appearances and all this other [expletive]. She's a [expletive] rock star. She's never cheated. She's done all these great things. She's an Olympian and she has to answer questions about Cyborg [expletive] Santos?\" <\/p>\n
If you're holding your breath for Rousey-Cyborg, that's your cue to go ahead and exhale. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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Morning Report: Dana White says Ronda Rousey is the biggest star the UFC has ever had and will soon be paid like it<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While UFC president Dana White reminds us Alistair Overeem and Cris Cyborg are very well cemented on his bad side, women's bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey seems to exist on a whole other plane of existence. Speaking with media at UFC headquarters in Las Vegas Thursday, White says Rousey is MMA's biggest star by a mile and that she's about to be paid like it, via Yahoo! Sports' Kevin Iole: \"She's the hugest superstar,\" White said of Rousey, who will defend her belt against Sara McMann at UFC 170. Continue reading