Ronda Rousey Trash-Talks Arianny Celeste
Fans are used to seeing fighters trash-talking each other prior to fights, but things got a little weird when UFC superstar Ronda Rousey targeted 117lb Octagon girl Arianny Celeste.
“It would have been really funny if I’d beaten Arianny Celeste, because that would be like a triathlete coming along and beating the runners in a marathon,” Rousey said in 2012 after both were listed in Maxim’s Hot 100 list. “Like, ‘Haha, it’s your job to show your t*ts – I do that better than you!’ Maybe next year. She’s only getting older, and I’m reaching my prime.”
Celeste eventually responded by stating that Rousey wasn’t a good role model for women and accused her of being a bully.
“I’m not going to talk about her because I’m not a fighter,” Celeste told MMAJunkie Radio. “I’m not going to waste my time. I actually don’t talk about anyone. It blows my mind that someone who doesn’t even know me continuously picks on me. And that’s all I see her as: a big bully.”
Rousey however was unrepentant.
“What did I say that was a bully?” Rousey said. “That the fighters should get paid more than the ring girls? How does that make me a bully? That makes me f*cking right. I’m sorry, but she wouldn’t have a job if it wasn’t for the fighters. She wouldn’t. You think her walking in circles around the two guys or two girls out there fighting for their lives is worth more? Think she works harder than they do?”
Celeste then responded on social media.
“Last I checked, I’m not a fighter and never will be,” Celeste stated on Twitter. “Please have some class like the one of the best fighters in the world should have. Focus on your fight, not me. “
