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It's been more than seven years since Ronda Rousey stepped away from martial arts.
The Olympic gold medalist in judo took the MMA world by storm, winning the Strikeforce and UFC women's bantamweight titles as an undefeated submission ace. She defended her UFC belt six times, all by stoppage, and gained public attention as a result. Rousey was on top of the world before being upset by Holly Holm, but then everything fell apart. Although she returned a year later, she was knocked out again by Amanda Nunes and left the promotion for good.
These days, Rousey has been making the media rounds to promote her new memoir. our struggle. The big reveal was Rousey's history of concussions, which really plagued her subsequent career. In her above interview with Valeria Lipovetsky, Rousey talks about her own health struggles and reflects on her own abilities at her peak.
“I felt like I had to come back to fight one more time. I felt like I owed it to the fans and everyone who believed in me,” Rousey began. “Maybe I needed to give them an example of overcoming adversity. The next game I got touched, I was on my feet. I'm faster, stronger, and better at playing the game than I've ever been before.” It was very difficult because I had never understood it better. I had never been better than anyone else. But the brain is not cold and it does not get stronger again after a break. Avoid it. It was an irresistible decline.
“I was punished until I couldn't take it anymore. When I couldn't take it anymore, I was slandered, saying, 'She's a hype, she just got lucky.' My first loss, a fight where my mouthguard was bad, people made all these judgments about me, I literally fell down the stairs already after years of concussions and got a concussion. I participated in that match. It was an absolutely terrible weight loss. In other words, there is less water in the brain to protect it. ”
she continued. “I was on my feet the entire match. I was trying to look like I wasn't injured, but cognitively I wasn't. I can't think fast or judge distance. After that one fight, everyone was like, “Oh, she's an impostor.'' I know I'm the greatest fighter that ever lived, but when you get to the point where your nervous system is so damaged that you can't take it anymore, all of a sudden everything you've accomplished… has become meaningless. ”
She concluded: “And after the second fight, I found that the people I had come back to fight suddenly turned against me. All my gratitude towards them turned to resentment.”
Since retiring from MMA, Rousey has been a professional wrestler in WWE. She was inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame in 2018.
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If you're wondering why certain body types or certain gas tanks look better in 2024…
Today marks the end of the first quarter of 2024.
According to UFC Anti-Doping, 639 drug tests were conducted in the first three months of this year.
USADA conducted 1,096 during the same period in 2023.
This represents a 42% reduction in drug testing of combatants under the new regime.
— Andy Hickey MMA (@AndyHickeyMMA) March 31, 2024
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