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Ronda Rousey was once the face of the UFC, but it doesn’t sound like she’s interested in a return to the Octagon anytime soon as she continues her journey…
Ronda Rousey was once the face of the UFC, but it doesn’t sound like she’s interested in a return to the Octagon anytime soon as she continues her journey…
Miesha Tate holds no ill will towards Ronda Rousey. She just wishes ‘Rowdy’ felt the same way. It’s been…
Miesha Tate holds no ill will towards Ronda Rousey. She just wishes ‘Rowdy’ felt the same way.
It’s been nearly eight years since Rousey stepped inside the Octagon. Still, the women’s MMA pioneer has found herself the subject of many a headline in recent months following the release of her latest book, Our Fight: A Memoir. And just as it was when she first left the UFC behind, Rousey has found herself the subject of widespread criticism with fighters and fans slamming the Olympian for constantly playing the blame game.
Recently, former UFC bantamweight queen Miesha Tate shared her thoughts on Rousey’s lack of personal growth in the years since closing the door on her combat sports career.
“I personally don’t have the animosity that I had for Ronda at one point,” Tate said on Sirius XM’s MMA Today show with Ryan McKinnell. “The disdain, the frustration, I’ve been able to work through those things and see my fault in it and try to be a better person.
“I wish that I could say that I saw the same growth from Ronda, but it doesn’t seem that way. It certainly seems that she’s holding onto the resentment, the frustration and the anger, and allowing it to dictate her next moves. I do not think the MMA community, in large part, ever turned their back on Ronda” (h/t MMA Junkie).
"I think she's still very focused on self, and not self-growth."@MieshaTate discusses Ronda Rousey's book tour quotes & Ronda's relationship with fans and media
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Tate was undoubtedly Rousey’s greatest foe, squaring off with ‘Rowdy’ in both Strikeforce and the UFC. The two were also featured as opposing coaches on the 18th season of The Ultimate Fighter.
Rousey was at the peak of her popularity in the sport, but she ended up rubbing a lot of fight fans the wrong way with her aggressive and overdramatic attitude throughout the season. More than a decade later, Tate believes nothing has changed.
“She forgot that there were hundreds of thousands of little girls around the world that were still idolizing her,” Tate said. “They didn’t care if she won or lost. They thought she was amazing either way. She doesn’t seem to have come to the point where I would like to see her be yet.“
“I think she’s still really hurt by it, but I think she’s very focused on self instead of self-growth. I think she’s still focused on, ‘Well, this is what happened to me, all these people turned on me, I had all these concussions happen to me, and nobody was thinking about me.’ It’s like, well, hang on, it’s not quite like that.
“People beat you down a bit. It comes with fame. Nobody gets away unscathed in life, much less if your life is put on a magnitude scale where everybody gets to witness your rise like they witness your fall. But it happens to every champion. This is not a Ronda Rousey vs. the world situation. It’s when you are great, sometimes people just want to see greatness fall.”
Former undisputed bantamweight champion, Ronda Rousey has agreed with recent claims from UFC boss, Dana White regarding her lack…
Former undisputed bantamweight champion, Ronda Rousey has agreed with recent claims from UFC boss, Dana White regarding her lack of ability to evolve as a fighter during her tenure in the promotion, chalking it up to being “everything to everyone”.
Rousey, the inaugural bantamweight champion under the banner of the White-led organization, called time on her combat sports career following back-to-back knockout losses to both Holly Holm and Amanda Nunes in title fights, the last of which came in 2016.
In the time since, Riverside grappler, Rousey has excelled in professional wrestling under the banner of the WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment), however, departed the organization at the tail end of last year to boot.
Revealing a slew of concussion issues had derailed her career in mixed martial arts, earlier this week Rousey claimed she was suffering from neurological injuries and concussion-like symptoms as early as six years of age.
And detailing how she admittedly failed to “evolve” as a fighter during her time with the organization, Rousey chalked the fact up to her busy promoting schedule, and spreading herself too thin.
“I had to be everything to everyone,” Ronda Rousey told CBS Sports. “I had to promote as hard as I trained, and because I did that, that’s why we got as far as we are today. I didn’t just make it about me and my performances and picking and choosing my fights, about when it would work best for me. That’s why we were so successful. That’s why the sport had never been hotter. It was because of that work.”
“I promised Dana (White) that’s what I would do if he believed in me and invested in me and brought me into the company,” Ronda Rousey explained. “I felt like if I did anything less, that would have made me a liar.”
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Ronda Rousey hasn’t attended a UFC event in years and she says she likely won’t be attending one anytime…
Ronda Rousey hasn’t attended a UFC event in years and she says she likely won’t be attending one anytime soon.
However, Rousey says a big reason why she isn’t attending UFC events is because she doesn’t think the fans would receive her well. Ultimately, Rousey says she doesn’t want to attend UFC events as she thinks the fans wouldn’t be too kind to her.
“It’s just one of those things, I don’t want to go to a stadium full of people for fun,” Ronda Rousey told CBS Sports. “I’d rather be out on my farm or the beach or something else like that. I think I’d just have to have a reason to go. If my kids end up fighting or something like that or someone that I ended up coaching ends up fighting, I would go. It’s not really my scene anymore.
“When I was younger, I wanted to put on a hot dress and go to the fights and hang out with everybody and now I’m kind of just like an old lady that wants to sit home and sip tea. Plus, I wouldn’t want to go just to be like ‘I wonder how people are going to react to me.’ I would want to have a reason to go or something.”
As Rousey says, the only way she will attend a UFC event is if her kid ends up fighting, or if someone she coaches ends up fighting. It is a bit disappointing as Rousey is an all-time great, but she doesn’t feel the love from MMA fans as she should.
Although Ronda Rousey has dealt with the highs and lows of MMA and has gotten concussed countless times, she isn’t ruling out her kids competing in MMA.
Rousey says she won’t force it on her kids, but if they want to compete in MMA, she will make sure they are trained to the best of their ability.
“If they wanted to [fight], I would do everything that I could to make sure they’re as great as possible, but I would never push them towards it,” Ronda Rousey said. “You can’t make somebody fight. It’s something that’s inside of you that you can’t help. I’ll make sure they know how to fight because it’s a survival skill, and I think it builds a lot of discipline. It’s very character developing and all of that. Whether or not they want to compete, it’s up to them.”
Rousey finished her MMA career with a 12-2 record and last competed in 2016 when she was TKO’d by Amanda Nunes in 48 seconds.
It wouldn’t be an overstatement to say that Ronda Rousey is one of the most popular mixed martial artists ever. After defending her Strikeforce women’s bantamweight title, she bagged the title in the UFC as well and racked up five consecutive defenses. However, it all came crashing down when Rousey lost her title to Holly […]
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It wouldn’t be an overstatement to say that Ronda Rousey is one of the most popular mixed martial artists ever. After defending her Strikeforce women’s bantamweight title, she bagged the title in the UFC as well and racked up five consecutive defenses.
However, it all came crashing down when Rousey lost her title to Holly Holm via a crushing first round KO. She then returned to the Octagon after almost a year, and lost to Amanda Nunes via KO in the first again.
“Rowdy” hasn’t fought in the UFC since then and eventually signed up with the WWE which has been a bone of contention among fans to date. The former champion has opened up on situations that led to her retirement and why she avoided coming back after just two losses…
Rousey recently appeared on the SHAK MMA YouTube channel and addressed her rather unexpected retirement from MMA. Tons of fans discredited her entire legacy due to this while others accused her of running away from top talents.
“Started doing, you know, Judo, at a young age, and kept getting concussions, regularly. And, you know, multiple times a year, and not being allowed to speak up or say anything about it, and um, as a fighter, you’re just not supposed to show any weakness or talk about things like that.”
“Rowdy” highlighted the ignorance towards cumulative neurological injury in sports, especially mixed martial arts. She claimed that all fighters deal with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) as they take shots to the head, but the pace varies.
Rousey revealed her that she dealt with her first concussion at six. This naturally worsened as she fought in Strikeforce, UFC, and other MMA promotions. So, she hung up the gloves when she could no longer fight without risking long-term neurological injuries.
“You’ll never know when you take one hit too many until many decades later, but I also, I don’t think that I would be serving the sport or the division in the right way if I stuck around too long and I got to a point where I knew that I literally could not be taking those head in the packs and continue to compete at that same level.”
The former Olympic Judo medalist clarified that she didn’t want to represent women MMA when not at her best. She was silent about her concussions to not affect her transition to WWE and other projects, but has no reason to hold back any more.
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Inaugural UFC bantamweight champion, Ronda Rousey has revealed she had initially started dealing with concussion-like symptoms at just 6-years-old…
Inaugural UFC bantamweight champion, Ronda Rousey has revealed she had initially started dealing with concussion-like symptoms at just 6-years-old – claiming her career in combat sports could have gone much differently if she avoided neurological issues.
Rousey, a former undisputed bantamweight champion under the banner of the UFC, called time on her combat sports career following back-to-back knockout losses to former champions, Amanda Nunes, and Holly Holm back in 2015, and 2016, respectively.
And forever linked with a return to mixed martial arts – particularly for this year’s huge UFC 300 card, Rousey had revealed she was dealing with numerous neurological issues early on in her career in combat sports.
Furthermore, the Riverside grappler claimed she had suffered a concussion in the days ahead of her infamous title fight with Albuquerque rival, Holm, and detailed how even jab strikes during his career in the UFC left her dealing with neurological issues.
Opening up further on her history with injuries, Rousey claimed at just 6 years of age, she suffered from concussion-like symptoms.
“If the concussions weren’t an issue, things would’ve happened completely differently,” Ronda Rousey told CBS Sports during a recent interview. “Accumulative neurological injuries is something people don’t talk about in MMA. It’s something that everybody is dealing with at a different pace. I started dealing with it at 6 years old. I started getting concussions much earlier on in swimming. Two kids doing a backstroke in the other direction crack heads or hit the wall during the backstroke.”
“I started doing judo at a young age and kept getting concussions regularly and multiple times a year and not being allowed to speak up or say anything about it,” Ronda Rousey continued. “As a fighter, you’re not supposed to show any weaknesses or talk about things like that or the inevitable neurological decline that comes with taking headshots. A lot of people talk about it as if it’s making excuses or weakness.”
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