Rousey: WOW makes me happy, not $#!@ talking on ESPN for 12 hours

Former UFC bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey fights the current title holder Amanda Nunes in the main event of UFC 207 on December 30. During an interview with FOX Sports last month, Nunes offered a bold prediction for the fight. She said she would wait for Rousey to make a mistake, and would probably beat her in a similar time frame to the fight with Miesha Tate – first round.

Rousey has done very little media since the fight with Nunes was announced. The pair had a faceoff, that was supposed to be wordless. Rousey appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show a few weeks ago. And on Wednesday night Rousey appeared on the “Conan O’Brien Show” and returned fire for Nunes’s first round remarks.

“She kind of has to say that because everyone knows she gasses out in the second,” said Rousey, as transcribed by Damon Martin for FOX Sports. “So she has to tell herself that. What else is she going to tell herself? She has to sleep at night somehow.”

That’s decent trash talk, but don’t expect much more to pour out between now and December 30. Rousey is focusing on her own happiness, as the women’s divisions doing just fine without her.

“It’s just that I don’t really have to,” she said. “I mean I’ve done a lot of learning in this last year and I’ve learned that the views I get and the money I make really doesn’t mean anything for me or my happiness. Now that I know the women’s division is secure, I don’t have to do that anymore. I choose not to. It’s not something I really get a kick off of like ‘ooh I want to spend 12 hours at ESPN and talk s*** all day’. That’s not really what I’d want to do.

“I want to go play World of Warcraft. So this time around I was like I’m not going to do that. I’m going to play World of Warcraft and then go train and then come back and chill out.”

Rousey has said she is winding down her fight career but offered no further predictions.

“I don’t think after this fight,” she said. “But definitely soon.”