"I will die on that hill" - Ronda Rousey doubles down on GOAT status claims, outlines one problem with women's MMA today

Ronda Rousey is standing firm on her legacy and has once again called herself the greatest of all time. The former UFC women's bantamweight champion also made it clear that she’s uneasy with where women’s MMA is heading.

Rousey’s run from 2013 to 2015 remains one of the most dominant stretches the sport has seen. She defended her title six times, five of them inside the first round. Her loss to Holly Holm and the follow-up defeat to Amanda Nunes marked the end of an era, but what she achieved in those three years changed the sport permanently.

Speaking on a recent episode of Bertcast with Bert Kreischer, she said:

"I said the other day that I'm the greatest ever, and man, everyone flipped the f*ck out over it. I'm like, how do you define the greatest ever? I define the greatest ever as the person who was the most dominant, and the farthest ahead of their time, right? Because you can't judge different eras against each other... No one can say I haven't been the most dominant and the most ahead of my time, and I will die on that hill. But a bunch of people that have never been in a fight in their lives will devote a good portion of their day to arguing otherwise."

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Talking about what she perceives as a problem in women's MMA, she added:

"I think one of the problems that a lot of the women in MMA have now is they're trying to be as inoffensive as possible and to not say anything outrageous. That's how we almost lost women's MMA, you know? People trying to quietly not offend anyone and quietly ask for permission to be there. I was like, 'No man, you have to make your space, not ask for space.'''

Check out Ronda Rousey's comments below (47:30):

Chael Sonnen weighs in on Ronda Rousey’s frustrations with MMA fans and media

Chael Sonnen believes Ronda Rousey’s frustrations with fans come from misunderstanding how the fight world moves. After Rousey accused the MMA community of turning on her, Sonnen said the reaction wasn’t hate but simply how fandom works once a fighter’s prime passes.

He explained that fans attach themselves to whoever is winning. Speaking on his YouTube channel, he said:

"The fan has to do that or their career dies. It’s not personal… they don’t really hate you, and they don’t really cheer against you. The part you had wrong is that you thought they were with you, that they loved you. That's the part you got wrong. They were never with you, and they never loved you. And there's nothing mean about that. It's called being a fan."