Undefeated former boxing world champion and pioneer to the sport, Laila Ali who also just happens to be the daughter of the late great Muhammad Ali has a message for Ronda Rousey’s supporters.

Ronda Rousey lost to Amanda Nunes at UFC 207 in stunning fashion. Nunes destroyed the former champion in just 48 seconds of round one, picking up the TKO win. She previously lost to Holly Holm back in October 2015 via round two knockout. Since the loss many of Rousey’s fans have been claiming she is still a legend, and compare her to boxing great Muhammad Ali who also had losses.

Laila Ali is not happy with fans comparing Rousey to her father, she pleads with them to stop.

“I’ve heard people say, ‘Well, Muhammad Ali lost, he’s still great,‘” she said. “First of all, Muhammad Ali never lost like that. He never got in there and was made to look like a rag doll. And when he did lose, it was pretty much after he had been off for three years. He was in his prime, had to take time off, came back, fought the best, then he came back and had rematches against the best, so please don’t ever compare her to my father.”

Ali blamed the false promotion surrounding the star for her downfall. However, she takes nothing away from her Judo or Olympic accomplishments.

“She’s pretty much been exposed,” Ali said. “She can’t take a punch. It doesn’t take anything away from her, what she did as a Judo champion, what she did in the Olympics. But she was basically built up by her promoter to be the best ever to fight, period, in any form of fighting, and it just never was true.”

There is no doubt about it the way Rousey put women’s MMA on the map will forever be commended. However, in terms of fights she is far behind Muhammad Ali and even Laila herself. Rousey only had 14 fights during her five year pro MMA career, which is a relatively low number and short amount of time in the fight game. In comparison Muhammad Ali had 61 fights over 21 years and was 31-0 before being beaten for the first time. Whilst Laila Ali remained unbeaten with 24 fights in nine years.

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