Pacquiao: Ronda Rousey is 'strong enough to beat Floyd Mayweather in MMA'

After Ronda Rousey's complete decimation of the UFC's women's bantamweight division, talks have turned to the possibility of staging an inter-gender bout between Rousey and a similarly-sized male foe.

Though Rousey doesn't believe in setting limits on her career, she quickly threw cold water on the notion of facing a man inside the Octagon.

But her recent statement hasn't stopped fans, the media and fellow pugilists from cobbling together so-called dream-matchups, including a bizarre super-fight between "Rowdy" and pound-for-pound boxing great Floyd Mayweather.

As Manny Pacquiao prepares to face Mayweather on May 2, he's firmly on team Rousey when it comes to fictional bouts between champions in completely different combat sports.

"I believe so," Manny Pacquiao told ESPN's His & Hers when asked if Rousey could beat Mayweather in an MMA bout. "She's strong, and she's strong enough to beat Floyd Mayweather in MMA."

Unsurprisingly, Pacquiao isn't the first person of significance to handicap this dream fight.

"You take a street fight, Ronda wins that fight and hurts him badly," UFC president Dana White told MMAjunkie.com last year. "You do an MMA fight, same result. Boxing match, Floyd Mayweather chews her up."