--- description: She told her 'Don't Cry' title: UFC Champion Ronda Rousey Defeats Bethe Correia in 34 Seconds image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte31571ad4c4d5886/69885d7735ba6f03d7c0e776/ronda-rousey.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Sports](/section/sports/) ## Sports Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [UFC](/tag/ufc/) ## UFC Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Ronda Rousey Defeats Challenger in 34 Seconds, Tells Her 'Don't Cry' by [Adam Carlsen / People](/author/people/) ## Adam Carlsen / People Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 2, 2015 3:54 PM CUT  UFC women's bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey of the United States celebrates after defeating Bethe Correia of Brazil by KO during the UFC 190 event on August 1, 2015 in Rio de Janeiro. UFC women's bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey of the United States celebrates after defeating Bethe Correia of Brazil by KO during the UFC 190 event on August 1, 2015 in Rio de Janeiro.Jeff Bottari—Getty Images by [Adam Carlsen / People](/author/people/) ## Adam Carlsen / People Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 2, 2015 3:54 PM CUT [Ronda Rousey](http://www.people.com/article/ronda-rousey-ufc-cat-zingano "undefined") kept her women’s bantamweight championship title Saturday night at UFC 190 – and then some – when she KO’d challenger Bethe Correia in 34 seconds. It was a decisive end to a lot of build-up and bad blood between the fighters: Correia, who made a point to trash talk Rousey at their stare-downs, had [previously made comments about](http://www.unilad.co.uk/video/emotional-ronda-rousey-vows-to-make-bethe-correia-suffer-for-mocking-her-fathers-suicide/ "undefined") Rousey’s mental health. Correia boasted a few months ago, “I want to knock her out, show to everyone that she is a lie. She wants to stand up with me, let’s see. I want to humiliate her and show the world she has no MMA. “When she realizes she is not everything that she believes she is, I don’t know what might happen,” Correia continued, laughing. “I hope she does not kill herself later on.” Rousey, whose father had committed suicide, replied, “Suicide is no joke or selling point. My father will be with me the day I hand you the comeuppance you deserve.” “I said the exact same thing she was saying to me at the weigh-ins when she was screaming in my face at weigh-ins,” Rousey said after the fight, [according to Fox Sports](http://www.foxsports.com/ufc/story/ufc-190-ronda-rousey-to-bethe-correia-after-34-second-ko-don-t-cry-080215?vid=496329283736 "undefined"). “She was saying ‘Don’t cry.’ “So I turned around to her after I knocked her out and I said, ‘Don’t cry.’ ” _This_ [_article_](http://www.people.com/article/ronda-rousey-kos-bethe-correia-ufc-190 "undefined") _originally appeared in_[ _People.com_](www.people.com "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3981426/ronda-rousey-ufc-champion-bethe-correia/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3981426/ronda-rousey-ufc-champion-bethe-correia/"},"headline":"Ronda Rousey Defeats Challenger in 34 Seconds, Tells Her 'Don't Cry'","datePublished":"2015-08-02T15:54:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T09:48:56.571Z","description":"UFC's biggest female star held onto her women's bantamweight championship title","url":"https://time.com/3981426/ronda-rousey-ufc-champion-bethe-correia/","keywords":["UFC"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte31571ad4c4d5886/69885d7735ba6f03d7c0e776/ronda-rousey.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Adam Carlsen / People"}],"articleSection":"Sports","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte31571ad4c4d5886/69885d7735ba6f03d7c0e776/ronda-rousey.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"ronda rousey","caption":"ronda rousey","creditText":"Jeff Bottari—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/sports/","name":"Sports"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/ufc/","name":"UFC"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3981426/ronda-rousey-ufc-champion-bethe-correia/","name":"Ronda Rousey Defeats Challenger in 34 Seconds, Tells Her 'Don't Cry'"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Behind The Scenes with the USWNT at an SI Cover Shoot","description":"Behind The Scenes with the USWNT at an SI Cover Shoot","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/fuCedTxq/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-07-13T16:57:33.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/fuCedTxq.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3981426/ronda-rousey-ufc-champion-bethe-correia/","duration":"PT2M30S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3981426/ronda-rousey-ufc-champion-bethe-correia/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```