The UFC bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey recently visited Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and she has been a crowd darling. She spoke to Brazilian media and one of the topics that Rousey answered was regarding challenge brought about by Invicta FC's featherweight champion Cris Cyborg.

According to Rousey, Cyborg may lose some of her strength after dropping down her weight to 135 pounds, she is still not an easy match. But she also thinks that the reason why Cyborg is taking a long time lowering her weight is due to her doping.

She said "I think that everybody has something, and I think that she would still be a great competitor at 135, but I think that she knows that it would be much harder for her to get away with doping and to make weight at 135. That's why she resisted for so long. But then when she saw she had no other options, she started cutting down."

She added "But she's still outside the organization, going outside the country. I'm sure she's trying to dope as long as possible and then come into the UFC. But it doesn't matter. I grew up fighting in judo and I knew there were people out there doping, but I never used that as an excuse to do it. I just wanted to beat them despite of it. 'You know what, you can have every advantage in the world over me, you can have better funding, you can have a better program, be on all the drugs in the world, but I'm gonna be good enough to beat you despite of it.'"

Rousey even believes that Cyborg requested to be released from her contract with the UFC in order to prevent herself from submitting to random drug tests.

She said "The reason why people dope is because they lack self-confidence. The reason why she was using steroids is because that girl does not believe that the best that she has is good enough, and that will always be there in her mind. And you know what, she's right. The best that she has isn't good enough, even on drugs."