{"id":6969,"date":"2015-11-16T13:47:26","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T20:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6969"},"modified":"2015-11-19T13:56:41","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T20:56:41","slug":"floyd-mayweather-defends-read-has-secret-crush-on-ronda-rousey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/11\/16\/floyd-mayweather-defends-read-has-secret-crush-on-ronda-rousey\/","title":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather Defends (read, &#8220;Has secret crush on&#8230;&#8221;) Ronda Rousey Against The Trolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/716521\/floyd-mayweather-defends-ronda-rousey-from-backlash-after-surprising-ufc-loss-everything-happens-for-a-reason?cmpid=emn-111715-enewsletter-button-latest-2\" target=\"_blank\">from E!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Floyd Mayweather Defends Ronda Rousey From Backlash After Surprising UFC Loss: &#8220;Everything Happens for a Reason&#8221;<\/h1>\n<p>by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eonline.com\/authors\/samantha-schnurr\" target=\"_blank\">SAMANTHA SCHNURR<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" title=\"Ronda Rousey, Floyd Mayweather, ESPY Awards\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2015615\/rs_560x415-150715164553-1024-ronda-rousey-floyd-mayweather.jpg\" alt=\"Ronda Rousey, Floyd Mayweather, ESPY Awards\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" \/><em><span class=\"photo_credit\">Rex\/REX USA; Getty Images<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>From one former champion to another,\u00a0<strong>Floyd Mayweather<\/strong>\u00a0has a few supportive words for\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/ronda_rousey\" target=\"_blank\">Ronda Rousey<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After suffering the first loss of her career during an Ultimate Fighting Championship match against\u00a0<strong>Holly Holm<\/strong>\u00a0on Nov. 15, the 28-year-old Olympic medalist faced\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/716123\/lady-gaga-laila-ali-and-other-stars-slam-ronda-rousey-after-losing-fight-to-holly-holm\" target=\"_blank\">immediate backlash<\/a>\u00a0from all angles and became the focus of Internet shame because of the shocking upset.<\/p>\n<p>When rapper\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/50_cent\" target=\"_blank\">50 Cent<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0posted an unflattering photoshopped Instagram picture of Rousey knocked out in the arms of iconic boxing character Rocky Balboa, he generated speculation that Mayweather\u00a0also wanted to poke fun at Rousey&#8217;s loss by claiming the athlete asked him to post it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;LMAO FLOYD TOLD ME TO POST THIS, he want me to do the dirty work,&#8221; the rapper wrote of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/-H4mZqML6H\/?taken-by=50cent\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0the photograph<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mayweather, who also faced off in a similar\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/652638\/floyd-mayweather-jr-vs-manny-pacquiao-fight-of-the-century-by-the-numbers\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;fight of the century&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0this year, put an end to the gossip when he spoke out publicly Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s not true at all. I haven&#8217;t really spoke to anyone about the Ronda Rousey situation, just to set the record straight,&#8221; he told\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fighthype.com\/mayweathernews\/mayweather_defends_rousey_against_trolls.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fight Hype<\/a>. &#8220;I don&#8217;t have anything against MMA fighters. It&#8217;s just like boxing; you win some, you lose some. A true champion can take a loss and bounce back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/716521\/floyd-mayweather-defends-ronda-rousey-from-backlash-after-surprising-ufc-loss-everything-happens-for-a-reason?cmpid=emn-111715-enewsletter-button-latest-2\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at E!<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from E! Floyd Mayweather Defends Ronda Rousey From Backlash After Surprising UFC Loss: &#8220;Everything Happens for a Reason&#8221; by\u00a0SAMANTHA SCHNURR Rex\/REX USA; Getty Images From one former champion to another,\u00a0Floyd Mayweather\u00a0has a few supportive words for\u00a0Ronda Rousey After suffering the first loss of her career during an Ultimate Fighting Championship match against\u00a0Holly Holm\u00a0on Nov. 15, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}