AnnMaria De Mars is an American Judoka. She was the first American to win at the World Judo Championships, winning the 1984 tournament in the -56 kg class. She is the mother of Ronda Rousey, an Olympic bronze medalist judoka and mixed martial arts Bantamweight world champion.
She was recently on Submission Radio, for an interview on everzthing concerning her daughter. In her opinion, if she ever faces Cris Czborg, Ronda will break her arm:
“Oh, Ronda will break her arm,” said Dr, De Mars. “I can say that right now. I’ll tell you two things – Ronda will break her arm, and Ronda will not go up in weight. And the reason she won’t apparently is because Cris Cyborg has missed weight multiple times. So if you have her fight at 140, she’s going to show up at 145 or 150. So that’s the first thing. If she’s gonna miss 135, she can at least give Ronda 10 percent of the purse.
“And then secondly, she has kind of an inflated record, because if you look back at some of her matches, she’s fought woman who were 125 pounds and she’s 160. You know that’s like Ronda fighting her little sister and her saying ‘oh look at me, I’m so dominant.’ So I’m not impressed with her record, and of course failing the drug test thing.
“I almost feel like that’s sort of like when you get a DUI. That’s probably not the only time you were driving drunk. So I’d say her whole record is under suspicion; certainly the one match she got caught at is under suspicion – not suspicion, it’s proven. And then there have been – you could look them up – several matches where she missed weight and was 20 pounds or more heavier than the other person. So under those conditions and going bragging [about] how dominant you are does not impress me.
“And the other thing is; I love Ronda, she’s a great person, she has many many wonderful qualities, but one thing about her is she holds a grudge, and she will break Cris Cyborg’s arm.”
“I think the first time Ronda got her hands on her she will go down and Ronda would break her arm, and here’s why. Okay, Ronda had a match with this woman – one of her amateur fights. And I didn’t know anything about MMA and I was all nervous about it and I was talking to Jim Pedro Senior who was coaching Ronda through her last couple of Olympics, and I said ‘you know I’m reading what this woman said in the paper. She said, she’s going to try and stop Ronda from taking her to the ground, She’s going to try and fight her standing’ and I said ‘that’s exactly what you should do and you know I’m worried about this.’ Jimmy stopped me and he says ‘ok let me get this straight. This woman’s plan is to stop Ronda from throwing her and armbarring her’. And I said ‘yes’. And he said ‘well listen kid, I took Ronda all over Europe and all over the world and coached her, and every woman in Judo that was their plan too. You saw how well that worked out for them’.
“You know Ronda got a silver in the world’s, she got a bronze in the Olympics, she’s won the junior worlds, she’s won a lot of international Judo tournaments, and this is against women who have decades of experience trying to stop Olympic level Judo players from throwing and armbarring them. So saying that Cris Cyborg is somehow magically going to be able to do that when Ronda’s been training this since she’s 11? I don’t think that’s going to happen. I think the first time Ronda gets her hands on her she’s going to knock her down and break her arm.”
About Rousey making another run a t Olympic Judo gold. Her mother was asked if there was any chance she would return to Judo:
“None,” said Dr. DeMars. “She’s not going to fight for free. She makes a ton of money doing what she’s doing and Ronda’s very smart. One of the things people don’t know about her is how smart she really is. She went to a special school here for kids who were excellent at math and science, and we always thought when she was younger that she would always get her PHD in Oceanography or something like that. So she realizes that she has a very short window remaining as an athlete and her opportunity is to make a few million dollars in those remaining years, rather than go to the Olympics and fight for free. She’s not that dumb.”
See the full interview:
