Mike Tyson on Ronda Rousey: S--t, She Might Kick My Ass

There has been a lot of talk lately about whether Ronda Rousey could mix it with male fighters but one man who is certainly not putting himself forward for the test is Mike Tyson.

The former heavyweight boxing champion was clearly impressed with how Rousey defended her UFC women's bantamweight title with a 14-second demolition job of Cat Zingano earlier this month at UFC 184.

Tyson was asked during an interview with HuffPost Live what he thought about recent comments made by Manny Pacquiao, where the Filipino suggested that Rousey was "strong enough to beat Floyd Mayweather in MMA."

While Pacquiao's comments were perhaps somewhat tongue in cheek, given he is in the mind-games heavy build-up to his fight with Mayweather, Tyson suggested fighting Rousey would be no joke. 

He said in his own inimitable style: 

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S--t, Ronda Rousey might kick my ass. That 14 seconds the last fight -- s--t, man, you got to take that seriously. She's marketed herself, and not necessarily from a publicist's perspective. She put in the work, too. She's putting these people to bed, she's tapping them out, she's doing the 14-second thing.

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Rousey vs. Tyson might be the only thing that could ever rival Mayweather vs. Pacquiao for pay-per-view buys, but it looks like it would be a fight Tyson would want no part of. 

[HuffPost Live]