The undisputed queen of the UFC always speaks her mind, but sometimes restraint is the better part of valor.
Bloodyelbow.com reported on an incident that Ronda Rousey, the women's bantamweight champion, had as she was walking out from her locker room to the octagon for Saturday's title bout against hometown hero Bethe Correia in Brazil.
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Rousey said that as she was approaching the octagon, Correia's brother threw a Brazilian flag at the American champion to try to throw her off her game, Bloodyelbow.com continued.
"It was a little annoying when Bethe's brother, the guy with the blue hair, threw a Brazilian flag at my face," Rousey told Megan Olivi of UFC, Bloodyelbow.com wrote. "I wasn't even mad he threw something at me, but like, why would you throw your own flag on the ground? I thought that was really weird."
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Her comments made for dynamic journalistic fodder, except for one thing.
Correia doesn't have a brother, Bloodyelbow.com reported.
It is unknown who might've interfered with the UFC champion.
Rousey, meanwhile, left her title belt in Brazil, according to MMA Junkie, saying that she wanted to leave it in the country.
" 'I've decided that after I win (at UFC 190), I'm going to make sure that when I have the belt, and I won't take it home with me,' " she said this past week to MMA Junkie. " 'I'm going to give it and make sure that it stays someplace in Brazil as my gift.' "
"On Tuesday, she posted (an Instagram photo) as she delivered her belt to the Reaction Institute, a judo school in Rio de Janeiro. She donated $30,000 to the school, run by fellow Olympic judoka medalist Flavio Canto, in March, as seen below (via Instagram). She first visited the institute in 2014."
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