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Ronda Rousey calls people on the Internet 'mostly evil'

Jayne Kamin-Oncea / USA TODAY

Ronda Rousey will not give her haters the time of day.

After her loss to Holly Holm at UFC 193, the former UFC women's bantamweight champion says that she is trying to stay out of the public eye, and that includes not paying attention to Internet commenters.

"I don't look at tags. I don't look at comments. People on the Internet are mostly evil, and I don't want to accept any of that negativity," Rousey told MMAJunkie.com at a media event. "I just use social media to put information out there, but I really don't use it to receive it because people are really cruel with that access.

"I don't want to allow them to have that kind of access to me anymore because they really take it for granted, and they don't look at you like a person. You're an event to them. I don't want to read people saying all the worst things they can imagine about me every single day. I just put what I have to put out there out there, and I don't look at anything else."

Although "Rowdy" says she is trying to disappear, she has had a number of appearances in the public eye. She landed on a Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition cover, hosted Saturday Night Live, and spoke with Ellen DeGeneres on her daytime talk show.

Rousey insists that she is laying low, though.

"I'm being purposely mysterious right now because I think people have taken my availability for granted," she explained. "I'm kind of just wanting to disappear. Everyone is constantly keeping me under a microscope, and I just kind of want to be left alone right now."

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