A decade later, Ronda Rousey finally opens up about the messy end to her UFC career: 'Now I get it'
Ronda Rousey infamously closed herself off to the MMA world a decade ago after back-to-back losses to Holly Holm and Amanda Nunes. Now we know why.
It’s been nearly a decade since Ronda Rousey last fought in MMA. On Saturday, inside the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles, that changes when she collides with Gina Carano under the banner of Jake Paul’s Most Valuable Promotions on Netflix. In the aftermath of Rousey’s first loss to Holly Holm in 2015, the former UFC bantamweight champion was particularly hard on herself, closing off the rest of the world for several years .
It wasn’t until her WWE run that she began speaking more publicly about the end of her MMA career. Appearing Monday on “The Ariel Helwani Show,” Rousey offered a candid assessment of why she reacted in the manner she did once her Hall of Fame title run came to an uncerimonious end. "I was dealing with these neurological issues for such a long time, and I didn't understand what was going on,” Rousey told Uncrowned.
They were getting worse and worse and worse. It just finally came to a head in that fight. I just felt like it finally caught up to me, and my career was over.
It was more than just losing a fight. It was, 'Man, I can't fight anymore. ' "There's a lot of people that think I'm making it up or don't believe me.
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