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Ronda Rousey reacts to UFC 229 brawl: ‘There’s too much preferential treatment for high-profile fighters’

Former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey may have missed the fight between lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov and Conor McGregor at UFC 229 but she certainly didn’t miss the fallout

Speaking with TMZ Sports, current WWE Raw Women’s Champion Rousey, alongside her husband Travis Browne, gave her take on the melee that followed Nurmagomedov’s fourth-round submission win.

“I understand promoting fights and having to sell them,” said Rousey. “I really do. I get it. But I don’t think people have to get arrested in order to do that.