'I hate him': Rousey's mom explains beef with daughter's coach
If fans expected UFC bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey's judo world champion mother, AnnMaria De Mars, to take back recently released video interview comments of her bashing her daughter's head coach, Edmond Tarverdyan, forget it. They got a shock as she appeared to double-down on them and elaborate.
In a preview clip of a full interview Dr. De Mars recently gave, she called Tarverdyan a "terrible coach."
Once the full interview with LatiNation was released (above), it turned out that the bulk of the conversation had to do with much more positive topics, like the educational software start-up that Dr. De Mars is developing, her own judo career, and how much she thinks of all of her daughters, including the UFC champion Ronda.
The full interview also included expanded shots taken at Tarverdyan, including De Mars saying, "I hate him. I would run over him with my car if there wasn't a law against it."
The educator and former judo champ explained a bit more about why she can't stand Rousey's coach, in a follow-up interview with fellow judoka Rhadi Ferguson (below). "Because [Tarverdyan] is extremely disrespectful to women," she claimed.