We will never really know if Ronda Rousey will ever defeat a man in MMA.

Ronda Rousey said on ESPN’s SportsCenter on Thursday that she could defeat “100 percent” of UFC men’s bantamweights under the right circumstances:

“I never say that I’m incapable of beating anybody, because I don’t believe in putting limits on myself,” Rousey said. “So I mean, I would have to say if you’re just talking about what’s in the realm of possibility of what’s possible of who I could beat, well I could beat 100 percent of them. You can’t tell me that there’s a zero percent chance that I can beat anyone on the planet, so I’m never gonna say that.”

In the past Rousey has also said that she could probably beat UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez and world boxing champion Floyd Mayweather if she took him to the ground.

After her statement, Doug Gottlieb from MMA Fighting asked the UFC women’s bantamweight champion how realistic her fighting a man would be and Rousey after her initial statement of being able to beat 100% of male bantamweight answered:

“It’s not a reality,” Rousey said. “They’re not gonna do anything like that. Fights are chaotic. Anything can happen. And there’s no setting in which we should condone a man hitting a woman.”

“I really just don’t think that any athletic commission on Earth would ever condone something like that,” Rousey said. “Fights are going to go both ways. You’re going to see both people hitting each other. I don’t think we should celebrate a man hitting a woman in any kind of setting.”

 

This kind of statement and retraction, seems to be a recurrent thing for Rousey. She had said in a past interview that she could beat any female grappler in gi or no-gi BJJ.
That statement sparked some controversy, and many of the top BJJ women competitors including Bia Mesquita and Gabi Garcia challenged Rousey to a Metamoris type grappling match

Rousey addressed the challenge during the UFC’s media event in Brazil, this time she said that she was open to compete in Metamoris but only under certain conditions:

“I’d be happy to do Metamoris if they paid me as much as they paid me for a UFC fight. I don’t really have that much time. Right now, it’s so much to keep up with the acting career, and the MMA career going. And everyone keeps going.  I would happy to do Metamoris.

Check out this video of Rousey sparring with UFC lightweight Gilbert Melendez: