Ronda Rousey: Cris ‘Cyborg’ Justino's PED Use Should Be Charged With Attempted Negligent Homicide
Current Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) women's bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey keeps finding new ways to rip her fiercest rival, Cris "Cyborg" Justino, to pieces. From classifying Justino to an "it" for her suspension due to performance-enhancing drugs, Rowdy is adding fuel to the fire by suggesting that generally perceived number two pound-for-pound women's mixed martial artist should be charged with attempted negligent homicide every time she steps in the Octagon.
"That girl in my eyes should be charged with attempted negligent homicide," Rousey told Ariel Helwani on The MMA Hour. "By coming into the cage with performance-enhancing drugs, [it] is the equivalent of walking in there with a weapon."
Rowdy was in the mood to bash Cyborg as she even declared that a day will come that someone will die in the Octagon and the other fighter will test positive for steroids marking the day that mixed martial arts will register its first case of murder. The 27-year-old judo expert stressed her hard stance against performance enhancing drugs and said that it is unsafe to be putting in fighters with unfair advantage against persons who developed their bodies through the right way.
Cyborg and Rowdy have long been jabbering back and forth as the media and fans continue to unofficially tag them as the two best women's fighters in MMA. Not enough women have posed a challenge to the undefeated UFC queen with Alexis Davis losing out in just 16 seconds and Sara McMann also faring badly, bowing out by technical knockout in 66 seconds. The only noticeable exception was Miesha Tate who has been out of the first round against Rowdy notwithstanding that the fight also ended with a Rousey win.
Justino has been training hard to move down to 135 and arrange a head-on collision with Rousey sometime in 2015. It appears that plan will not materialize as Invicta FC has announced that it is pulling out Justino from the December fight due to a serious ankle injury. On the other hand, the Expendables 3 movie star and Buffalo David Britton clothing line endorser will be seen next at UFC 184 where she will defend her title against Cat Zingano, a fellow undefeated fighter who is coming back from an ACL injury.
It is uncertain when both Cyborg and Rowdy will be available and healthy to test their mettle in the Octagon but it is clear that the current UFC champion is not backing down from the challenge. Rousey was also quoted in the interview on her potential match with Cyborg, if and when it happens, that she would "be happy to give her the ass-whooping she deserves."