Leave it to an Ali to issue a challenge that a champion can't ignore.
Days after Laila Ali dismissively declared she could beat Ronda Rousey, the UFC champion said she is up for the fight.
“If she wants to take me up on that, I’m around,” Rousey told The Daily Beast.
Ali, daughter of boxing legend Muhammad Ali and a former world champion in her own right, told TMZ: "Of course I can beat Rousey ... she's the size of my 3-year-old."
The fact that she would be giving up several inches and pounds to the mother of three wasn't lost on Rousey.
“She’s retired and has several kids. I understand why she’d think that because she has a size advantage, but if you saw my last fight it had nothing to do with size or strength at all," Rousey said. "That’s not how I beat people. So you can’t count having a size and strength advantage as having a real advantage against me.”
Laila Ali is 5-10, 160 pounds; Rousey is 5-7, 135.
Neither woman has lost a bout. Ali went 24-0 in the boxing ring and Rousey is 11-0 in UFC.