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Floyd Mayweather on Ronda Rousey: ‘I don’t know who he is’

In March, UFC star Ronda Rousey joked with an LA-based radio station that she could beat boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. by staying low to the ground and doing some “monkey crawl” moves from “Bloodsport.”

A few months later, UFC president Dana White took that challenge a bit more seriously, declaring Rousey “wouldn’t beat him. She’d hurt him badly” if Mayweather ever set foot inside an octagon.

Too bad the multi-division boxing champion wouldn’t be able to distinguish Rousey from Adam.

“I don’t know who he is,” Mayweather said (at about the 36-second mark) during the following interview:

When informed that Rousey is a female UFC star, the boxer threw up his hands in bewilderment: “I ain’t know who that is.”

Are these fighting words?