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It’s been simply over seven years since Ronda Rousey stepped away from fight sports activities.
The Olympic gold medalist in Judo took the MMA world by storm, capturing the Strikeforce after which UFC girls’s Bantamweight titles as an undefeated submission ace. She defended her UFC belt six instances, all by way of stoppage and rose into the general public eye consequently. Rousey was on high of the world previous to being upset by Holly Holm, then all of it fell aside. She returned a yr later, was knocked out as soon as extra by Amanda Nunes, and left the promotion for good.
Not too long ago, Rousey has been doing the media circuit to advertise her new memoir, Our Battle. A giant reveal has been Rousey’s historical past of concussions, which actually plagued her later profession. Within the interview above with Valeria Lipovetsky, Rousey talks about her well being struggles and displays on her skills whereas at her peak.
“I felt like I needed to come again for one more battle, I felt like I owed it to the followers and everybody who believed in me,” Rousey started. “Possibly I wanted to present them an instance of overcoming adversity. It was to the purpose the place the following battle once I bought touched, I used to be out on my ft. It was so exhausting as a result of I’d by no means been sooner, stronger, by no means had a greater grasp on the sport. I’d by no means been so significantly better than everybody else. However, your mind doesn’t callous, it doesn’t assist again stronger after a break. It was an inevitable decline.
“I had taken punishment till I couldn’t take it anymore. When it bought to the purpose that I couldn’t take it anymore, I used to be vilified as ‘She was all hype, she was simply fortunate.’ Folks making all these judgements about me in a battle the place my first loss, my mouth guard was dangerous, I actually got here into that battle concussed from slipping down some stairs already in any case these years of concussions. I had a completely horrible weight lower, which suggests you have got much less fluid in your mind to guard it.”
She continued, “I used to be out on my ft for all the battle. I used to be making an attempt to make it appear to be I wasn’t damage, however I wasn’t there cognitively. I couldn’t suppose as quick or decide distance. Simply from that one battle, everyone felt like, ‘Oh she’s a fraud.’ I do know that like I’m the best fighter that has ever lived, however when it bought to some extent that I had taken a lot neurological injury that I couldn’t take it anymore, instantly all the things I had completed meant nothing.”
She concluded, “Then after the second battle, I noticed how all these individuals I used to be coming again to battle for had instantly turned in opposition to me. All of my appreciation for them turned to resentment.”
Since retiring from MMA, Rousey has carried out as knowledgeable wrestler within the WWE. She was inducted into the UFC Corridor of Fame in 2018.
Insomnia
If you happen to’ve been questioning why sure physiques and sure gasoline tanks are trying higher in 2024 …
As we speak marks the top of the primary quarter of 2024.
Per UFC Anti Doping, there’s been 639 drug exams carried out within the first 3 months of the yr.
USADA carried out 1,096 in the identical timeframe in 2023.
That is a 42% discount in drug testing of fighters underneath the brand new regime.
— Andy Hickey MMA (@AndyHickeyMMA) March 31, 2024
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That is unsettling.
Alexander Volkanovski vs. Dan Ige? That might be must-watch Featherweight motion!
Slips, rips, and KO clips
Feinted the kick, noticed no response, then let it rip!
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Heel to the liver!
Random Land
SWISH!
Midnight Music: Indie folks, 2002
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