While Ronda Rousey was heavily criticized for her off-putting interview at The Ultimate Fighter 18 Finale last month, the UFC women’s bantamweight champion had a lot more going on that day then people seem to realize. When cameras on the Nov. 30 broadcast cut to a cageside interview with Rousey (7-0 MMA, 1-0 UFC) and her UFC 168 opponent, Miesha Tate (13-4 MMA, 0-1 UFC), conducted by UFC commentator Jon Anik, it was immediately clear the champion would have preferred to be elsewhere. Throughout the three-minute interview, Rousey gave short, blunt answers and simply dazed off into the audience while Tate was speaking. Some viewers lashed out at Rousey and called the typically charismatic 26-year-old unprofessional for her approach to the interview. And while it was believed the personal friction between Rousey and Tate was the genesis of it, the former Olympian that wasn’t it at all.
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