Ronda Rousey Envisions a 'Rocky IV' Match With Bethe Correia In Brazil

Bethe Correia’s incessant trash talking has seemed to come through for her. Reigning Ultimate Fighting Championship, or UFC, women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey is entertaining Correia’s proposition of a match in Brazil saying that her constant roping for a big fight has placed her within “Rowdy’s” radar.

The self-proclaimed slayer of “The Four Horsewomen” stressed her deep patriotism as one of her motivating factors to triumph over her American adversary. She added that she loves to represent Brazil and what better way than to bring home a championship in her native land. Rousey appears to be warming to the idea and in her latest interview with Jay Mohr Sports, she gave Correia her due respect and added that messing with “mama bear” has its repercussions and even compared the potential match to Sylvester Stallone’s “Rocky Balboa” going to Russia to vanquish Apollo Creed’s killer.

"That's what I want to do," Rousey told Mohr. "I want to go and fight her in Brazil and beat her in her hometown. That would be the best way I could really feel like I've vindicated my friends, to go to her hometown and beat her in her hometown and be total Rocky IV on it."

The 31-year-old native of Paraiba, Brazil has constantly mocked the “Four Horsewomen” even gesturing four fingers up only to hold one finger down whenever she vanquished one of Rousey’s cliques. She has already defeated Shayna Baszler and Jessamyn Duke and now she her sights set on the queen bee.

Putting a dent on Rousey’s undefeated record proves to be a very difficult task as a slew of challengers never made it past the first round after facing Rousey’s vaunted arm bar submissions. Her last three fights totalled just a little over 90 seconds and her latest win over Cat Zingano during UFC 184 in just 14 seconds proves her dominance in the Octagon.

Correia has vowed to change all that and has even began the mud-slinging by stating Rousey is a selfish champion who is only concerned with her image and her blossoming movie career. The star of the “Expendables 3” and the latest “Fast and the Furious” film is looking for some time off to shoot her latest starrer with director Peter Berg. To be fair, Rousey has not been one to back down from any challengers even going through back to back title defences in less than 3 months in between in 2013 and 2014.

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