According to a Feb. 22 report from the New York Post, Ronda Rousey isn't exactly impressed by Miesha Tate's punching power.
“She punches like a b***h,” Rousey said of Tate. "I don’t really like her that much."
Rousey is slated to fight Liz Carmouche on Feb. 23 in the main event of UFC 157 in Anaheim, Calif., but that hasn't stopped her from smack-talking Tate every chance she gets.
“I’d just like to take out her whole [expletive] crew,” Rousey said of Tate and company on a “Mohr Stories” podcast last month.
Later on the show, Rousey added another verbal pipe bomb aimed at Tate and her boyfriend, Bryan Caraway.
“I’m not gonna put on a ski mask and go to Oregon or wherever their trailer is,” Rousey said, apparently making an attempt at a "white trash" joke.
The feud between Rousey and Caraway dates back to 2012, when the star judoka consistently trash-talked Tate in the lead-up to their Strikeforce fight on Showtime.
Caraway fired back at Rousey on Twitter by saying “I’ll knock her teeth dwn [sic] her throat the [sic] break her arm."
Caraway later apologized for his comments, and then went on to make a name for himself by winning back-to-back fights in the UFC to move into the top 20 in the world in the bantamweight division.
Tate makes it clear that she thinks people are getting sick of Rousey's trash-talk.
"This is beyond stupid," Tate said of Rousey's comments about Caraway on Jay Mohr's "Mohr Stories" podcast. "Ronda knows it will never happen, yet she keeps making digs and calling him out. [She hides] behind the fact that she's a girl, which somehow makes her actions okay. To me it's a pathetic cry for attention and I'm done feeding into her [expletive]. People are already getting sick of her trashy comments and loud mouth. Let her talk, let her show her true colors."
Tate is set to fight Cat Zingano on Apr. 13 at the TUF 17 finale, and a win there would perhaps earn her a title shot against Rousey.
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