Ronda Rousey UFC latest news 2015: 'Rowdy' justifies beating up ex-boyfriend, says it was not domestic violence
Undefeated UFC bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey recently shared her take on domestic violence, based on a personal experience.
Currently in Melbourne, Australia where she, along with former world boxing champion Holly Holm would be headlining this weekend's UFC 193 event, "Rowdy" disclosed a previous incident with a former boyfriend where physical violence ensued.
In a report by ESPN, the 28-year old Olympic judoka claimed she was merely acting on self-defense.
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"I was in that situation before when I was in a movie theater and my exit was blocked, people wouldn't let me out," Rousey explained during a media scrum. "You legally cannot do that. It's considered a self-defense scenario."
Rousey adds that the same situation could be applicable anywhere, may it be in a public place such as a movie theater, or in her own home.
"So if someone is blocking you into an apartment and won't let you leave, you're entitled to defend yourself and find a way out," she continued. "If you're trying to get into your car and leave and they're grabbing your steering wheel and saying you can't leave, technically you're being kidnapped, and you can defend yourself in any way that is necessary."
Rousey is not usually publicly open about her romantic affairs. She did, however, speak in detail about this particular ex-boyfriend, and how things got ugly in her recently released book entitled "My Fight/Your Fight".
"I punched him in the face with a straight right, then a left hook. He staggered back and fell against the door. I walked around the car, pulled him by the neck of the hoodie again, dragged him onto the sidewalk and left him writhing there as I sped away," she wrote.
While women as aggressors on domestic violence cases happen rarely, some people believe that in this particular case, Rousey should not be let off the hook. According to Nancy Armour of USA Today, the same treatment should be given to both men and women.
"If the NFL's domestic abuse crisis has done anything, it's shown how woefully outdated society's views are," Armour wrote. "It's not a "family matter" best to be dealt with behind closed doors, or an argument that simply got out of hand."
"It's a crime, and it's not only committed by men."
