The happiest person with the defeat of Ronda Rousey on Saturday was not Holly Holm but probably retired American boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. He not only gets to boast of being an undefeated champion since Ronda just got dethroned, but her loss was his way of winning their word war
The proof that Mayweather was celebrating Ronda's unexpected loss was an admission from 50 Cent that the boxer ordered him to post a meme of the defeated UFC fighter sleeping after her second round loss. The rapper captioned his post of the meme at his Instagram account: "LMAO FLOYD TOLD ME TO POST THIS. He want me to do the dirty work."
His post got more than 70,000 likes and elicited more than 6,000 comments. Epicsports posted the meme on YouTube with a split screen showing Mayweather laughing apparently at Ronda's loss and then saying, "I say, 19 years, no excuses," an apparent reference to his years of professional boxing with zero loss.
Mayweather's response was not surprising when he did the same thing to another opponent, Manny Pacquiao, who was also knocked out by Juan Manuel Marquez in 2013.
Despite her loss, Ronda assured her fans that she will just take some time off, but she will be back, reports ESPN. Holm has agreed to give Ronda a rematch depending on Rousey's timetable.
It was Ronda's seventh title defense on Saturday. Until Nov. 14, she was undefeated in 12 fights and won over her opponents in seconds. However, 34-year-old Holm, a veteran boxer from Albuquerque, New Mexico, made UFC history by stunning the mixed martial arts world with the surprise win.
Mick Dolce, Ronda's trainer, says she will bounce back. He points out, "Ronda has lost before, she lost at the Olympics games ... That was a grave test for her, and look at how she came back, she came back with a multi-time world champion."