Rousey: I’m still grieving the person who could have won it all
Ronda Rousey was recently named one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people and spoke to the magazine about her career and the ‘grieving’ process she is going through since her loss to Holly Holm at UFC 193.
Ronda Rousey was recently named one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people and spoke to the magazine about her career and the ‘grieving’ process she is going through since her loss to Holly Holm at UFC 193.
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“I’m still grieving the person that could have won it all. But I have to live up to the fact that I’m not her. That’s just who I’d like to be and instead I’m what I need to be, for myself and everyone else. You have to go through those stages of acceptance and renewed optimism. You need to define that doe-eyed part of you that walked into an arena the first time and saw all the lights and thought ‘one day that’s gonna be me, that’s gonna be my name up there.’ That’s what I need to find again.”
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