Rousey Slams Cyborg, Calls Her An “It”

UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey landed a spot in The New Yorker magazine, in which she was asked about Cris Cyborg and what she thinks of Cyborg. Below is the excerpt from the article, which can be read in its entirety here.

“In a perfect world, she wouldn’t have been taking all those steroids and hormones for so many years that she ceased to be a woman anymore,” Rousey said one afternoon, when Cyborg’s name was mentioned-she was driving back to the gym from a nearby juice bar, and her sunny mood suddenly darkened. “In a perfect world, she would be a girl and not an it.” This sounded more like passionate indignation than like idle pre-fight trash talk. Beneath Rousey’s anti-drug message, you could also hear echoes of the old insistence that women fighters take pains to be scrupulously feminine, lest the spectre of manliness turn the fledgling sport into a freak show.