Matt Brown reacts to ‘insufferable’ Ronda Rousey’s latest comments on Holly Holm: ‘She’s her own worst enemy’

admin-cdn1 hour ago

0 1 4 minutes read

Ronda Rousey retired immediately after her 17-second win over Gina Carano but that didn’t stop her from taking aim at former opponent Holly Holm when asked about a potential rematch.

Leading up to her recent title fight against Stephanie Han in boxing, Holm paid homage to Rousey after scoring a brutal head-kick knockout over her back in 2015 and added that she never shied away from offering her a chance at revenge, although the fight never happened. With Rousey retiring after her recent win, Holm doubted that she’d ever cross paths with the former UFC women’s bantamweight champion again.

But Rousey claimed that she’s a much better fighter now and she was confident that if she met Holm again she would “clean her clock,” although the rematch is never going to happen because she’s retired.

Despite all the enthusiasm Rousey built with her comeback to the sport, UFC legend Matt Brown argues her latest comments taking aim at Holm prove that she learned nothing during her time away because she’s still speaking with the same attitude that made so many people dislike her after she walked away of two straight knockout losses.

“It’s so uninteresting,” Brown said on the latest episode of The Fighter vs. The Writer. “Because it’s Ronda, it’s a lot of people talking about it, you probably get a lot of replies on a tweet or something. But this is so uninteresting. She’s so just in her own world. It’s cool she believes in herself, I guess. The world is in her hands with that kind of belief. She’d get f*cked up by Holly if they fought again.

“We can go through all the cliché quotes. Yeah, you’ve got to believe in yourself even if no one else does and it’s cool that she does. OK, no one’s convinced because you beat Gina Carano. Who do you think you’re fooling here? I don’t even know if she actually believes it, but if she does, cool, that’s really good that you believe that. We don’t.”

Prior to her comeback when she was promoting her recent autobiography, Rousey claimed that she likely wouldn’t attend a UFC event anytime soon because she knew she’d probably get booed rather loudly by the crowd.

Back then, Brown argued that Rousey’s attitude since she left the UFC in 2016 really make her unlikeable to fans, especially since she never really gave credit to Holm or Amanda Nunes for beating her in consecutive fights. Instead, Rousey talked about her issue with repeated concussions and how head trauma led to her downfall rather than anything her opponents did to her during those fights.

Hearing these latest comments has Brown convinced that Rousey just doesn’t know how to read the room and she’s just resorting back to the same person who was so vilified by UFC fans after her first retirement.

“She’s literally the one person who doesn’t get it,” Brown said. “She’s her own worst enemy. She became a gigantic star and that’s great. She’s certainly still a star. Everybody watched her fight with Gina Carano. She’s still a very large name but she’s her own worst enemy.

“I could just imagine what she could be if Holly Holm were in her shoes. Holly Holm’s such a humble sweetheart and a good person all around. If Holly and Ronda had just swapped personalities, Ronda would be the biggest star ever. But she just shoots herself in her own foot all the time.”

Brown believes that sometimes less is more when it comes to these kinds of interviews and Rousey would have been better served by just not addressing Holm at all, especially knowing they are never going to fight again.

“She’s insufferable,” Brown said about Rousey. “I’m going to be her PR person for the next five seconds, and it’s really simple. This is your PR, Ronda: Shut the hell up.

“Just don’t talk. Just don’t. We’ll like you a hell of a lot more. Just forget about it. Whatever is on your mind, just forget about it.”

As much as Brown understands why Rousey wants to show confidence and make claims about how she would surely avenge her past loss to Holm, the fact that the fight isn’t going to happen only exacerbates the frustration around those kinds of comments.

In fact, Brown doubts that Rousey has ever truly accepted her past losses and that’s probably fueling her animosity towards Holm.

“Believe me, I fought many times obviously … I’ve lost some,” Brown said. “I feel like I could go back and beat every, single one of those motherf*ckers. 1000%. If you called me tonight, and [you’re] fighting next week, you get the rematches. I’d be like ‘f*ck yeah, let’s go, I will f*ck that motherf*cker up.’ But I’ve never once come out and said that. I had my 15 minutes or 25 [minutes] in some cases. I had my time. I failed. I had a set time that I got to train for, and I had to show up and do all the formalities, I was there two hours in the locker room before hand just like he was. I had 15 minutes at the exact same time he had 15 minutes, and he walked away better than me at that moment. I can accept that.

“Yes, I believe I could go back and do that 15 minutes again and f*ck him up, but the time that we did have, I didn’t do it. So how I can say shit about it? Ronda cannot accept that.”