An attorney/adviser for Cristiane Justino said there’s probably a reason UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey was so ruthless during a recent interview.

According to George Prajin, who represents “Cyborg,” Rousey has resorted to name-calling, false accusations and verbally attacking his client “because she can’t physically.”

Prajin addressed Rousey’s comments in a statement issued to MMAjunkie.

This past week, in an interview with Yahoo! Sports‘ Kevin Iole, Rousey blasted Justino, a former Strikeforce champion who’s been campaigning for a shot in the UFC, due to her past failed test due to her use of a performance-enhancing drug. The UFC champ then suggested Justino is a longtime PED user with her most damning comments.

“I’ve said before, I don’t care if she’s injecting horse semen into her eyeballs, I’ll fight her, but that’s just my personal decision,” Rousey told Yahoo! Sports. “But I can’t make a decision for the whole division. I can’t say it’s the right thing. This girl has been on steroids for so long and [has been] injecting herself for so long that she’s not even a woman anymore. She’s an ‘it.’ It’s not good for the women’s division. It’s not good at all.”

Prajin’s statement:

First of all Cris Cyborg is a beautiful woman with a huge heart. She has a mother and father and a beautiful niece that she has raised since she was born. Ronda is not only trying to hurt Cris but is hurting them as well. This is fight sport, no reason for hateful attacks. You want to hurt Cris, get in the cage. Dare you.

Cris Cyborg does not need to resort to personal insults. She wants to hurt Ronda physically not verbally. Ronda’s hateful statements show that she fears Cris because she knows she has to verbally attack her to hurt her because she can’t physically. She knows she has no chance against Cris in a fight.

First she ran to 135 to escape her, hoping that she would never have to face her. Then when fans started to demand the fight, she hid behind her weight division. Now that Cris is coming after her she now is setting up the excuse of all excuses – fighting Cris wouldn’t be fair.

She is right about one thing: It would not be fair. And it has nothing to do with performance enhancing drugs. It’s because Cris is just that much better. And to agree with Ronda, it would be criminal. In fact, if it wasn’t a consensual fight, it would end in a crime upon her.

Ronda is making serious allegations that Cris is abusing steroids. Unless she has proof, she is having a reckless disregard for the truth!

Ronda knows Cris has passed four drug tests in a row including a random drug test performed this past March. All Ronda is doing is trying to build an excuse once Cris mops the cage with her. That is by lying and saying that Cris is a cheater.

Affirmatively, Cris is not using any performance enhancing drugs!

UFC officials didn’t respond to a request for comment or address Rousey’s use of the word “it” to describe a fellow female fighter. Representatives from GLAAD, who addressed similar comments that UFC heavyweight Matt Mitrione made about transgender fighter Fallon Fox in 2013, also weren’t available.

For now, Rousey (9-0 MMA, 3-0 UFC) is preparing to fight top contender Alexis Davis (16-5 MMA, 3-0 UFC) in UFC 175’s pay-per-view co-headliner on July 5. The Olympic medalist looks for her 10th straight win and fifth consecutive UFC title defense.

For the latest on UFC 175, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.

(Pictured: Ronda Rousey)

Editor’s note: Story updated at 8:50 p.m. ET with a clarification from Prajin regarding his use of the word “homicide” to describe his opinion on a non-sanctioned fight between Justino and Rousey.