{"id":2122,"date":"2015-11-02T07:58:26","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T07:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2122"},"modified":"2016-01-29T11:53:16","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T11:53:16","slug":"ufc-conference-call-kicks-off-gossip-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.co.uk\/blog\/ufc-conference-call-kicks-off-gossip-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC conference call kicks off gossip girls"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s all kicked off following a conference call<\/a> on the upcoming Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)\u00a0title fight between Ronda Rousey and Holly Holm –\u00a0but not, as you might expect, inside the octagon.<\/p>\n

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Mother’s talk<\/h2>\n

Ronda Rousey, the current UFC women’s bantamweight champion, is due to defend her title against Holly Holm and was fielding some tough questions on a recent media scrum, some of which were more about confrontations\u00a0outside the octagon than fights inside it.<\/p>\n

The first was about the recent outburst by Rousey’s mother,\u00a0AnnMaria De Mars ,\u00a0when she launched attack on her\u00a0coach,\u00a0Edmond Tarverdyan.<\/p>\n

De Mars said of\u00a0Tarverdyan: ” “I think he hit the lottery when Ronda walked in there. She was winning before she even met him. She probably won 99 percent of the judo matches she ever fought in. She had won the Junior Worlds when she was 17. She got a bronze medal in the Olympics. She got a silver medal in world championships. She was one of the top athletes in the world when she walked in there, and he wouldn’t even give her the time of day for months. Somebody like that is a terrible coach.”<\/p>\n