Former UFC and Strikeforce girls’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey opened up in an interview with Valeria Lipovetsky about her last days within the UFC.
After her UFC 193 knockout loss to Holly Holm, Rousey felt obligated to return for one more struggle. In that struggle, she was mercilessly crushed by Amanda Nunes at UFC 207 and completed in simply 48 seconds. It was the final time “Rowdy” graced the within of the octagon.
“I felt like I needed to come again for one more struggle as a result of I felt like I owed it to the followers and everybody that believed in me. Perhaps I wanted to present them an instance of overcoming adversity,” Rousey stated.
“I used to be so performed preventing after that loss [to Holly Holm],” Rousey continued. “I might had so many concussions, I actually could not take a jab with out getting a concussion at that time.”
Rousey blamed the loss to Holm on a ‘dangerous mouth guard,’ a pre-fight concussion, and a ‘horrible weight minimize.’
Through the interview, Rousey stated one thing that caught the eye of former UFC, Bellator MMA, Strikeforce, and Invicta FC girls’s featherweight champion Cris Cyborg.
“I do know that I am the best fighter that has ever lived,” Rousey claimed. “However when it bought to a degree the place I would just taken a lot neurological injury that I could not take it anymore, instantly every little thing that I completed meant nothing.”
Cyborg responded to Rousey’s feedback by way of social media. “Poor lady nonetheless affected by CTE,” Cyborg wrote. “I hope she lastly bought an excellent mouth guard.”
Poor lady nonetheless affected by CTE. I hope she lastly bought an excellent mouth guard. https://t.co/JwHQxUSxJA
— CrisCyborg.Com (@criscyborg) April 3, 2024
Cyborg returns to boxing to face Widnelly Figueroa in the principle occasion of Inexperienced Bay Struggle Night time at The Watering Gap in Inexperienced Bay, Wis on April 27.
Who do you think about the best feminine fighter to ever dwell? Holm held a number of boxing titles and the UFC bantamweight crown. Amanda Nunes defeated two divisions of fighters together with Cyborg. Cyborg held the 145-pound girls’s title for basically 9 years. Valentina Shevchenko held the flyweight championship for 5 years efficiently defending it seven instances.
