Rousey: I’m still the greatest fighter in the world
Ronda Rousey was very nearly a media recluse after losing her title to Holly Holm at UFC 193 on November 15, 2015. She…
Ronda Rousey was very nearly a media recluse after losing her title to Holly Holm at UFC 193 on November 15, 2015. She appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and Conan, was the subject of an in-depth interview with ESPN the Magazine, played the role of Gallus Mag on Drunk History, and that is about it.
She will be doing no interviews for the fight on Friday with UFC women’s bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes. But she did appear briefly in Countdown to UFC 207, which debuted Monday on FS1.
Fighting is my life, and I need to do it again, said Rousey, as transcribed by Mike Bohn for MMAjunkie. After going through all of that, I have a much bigger point to make this time. … I have more experience [than Nunes] being under the most pressure possible, and the pressure’s different. I’m still the greatest fighter in the world.
I hear so many of the worst things anyone could ever even imagine to say about me every single day. Thousands of times people are trying to reach me and say these negative things. … People like to see people rise because they want to see people fall because they want to feel like they’re human like they are. That’s why we have this cycle of raise people up, and then we crash down..
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.
I’m coming back to win this title for the people that believed in me. Everything in my whole life that I’ve always worked for. Everything depends on it. Everything is at stake.
Ronda Rousey fights Amanda Nunes in the main event of UFC 207 on December 30, live on PPV.