At the time of this writing, the main attraction of this weekend’s pair of MMA events is a 14-1 favorite over her opponent.
That’s blatant mismatch territory. And yet, you don’t see a whole lot of crowing over the circumstances that led to pairing UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey and Bethe Correia in UFC 190’s headliner. We know how we got here – “Rowdy” ran through everyone else, and Bethe loudly volunteered.
This week, several in the MMA know have approached Saturday with a mixture of dread over what could happen to Correia, sympathy for the physical consequences she’ll face after feeling Rousey’s wrath, and, of course, curiosity over the speed of the impending car crash.