Zingano: Loss to Rousey ‘a really, really good thing’
Cat Zingano: “What I have to do is [fight] a different opponent, and I don’t know, I feel like a different me. A different skill set, a different mindset. It’s humbling to lose, and it’s humbling to lose like that.”
Cat Zingano’s title fight with Ronda Rousey didn’t go nearly how she planned when she was submitted by the champion in only fourteen seconds. Zingano took a year away from the UFC, is scheduled to fight at UFC 200, and in retrospect believes her quick loss to Rousey was actually a ‘good thing’:
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“What is there to do? It’s water under the bridge,” she said. “I mean, I can’t sit here and regret anything, I can’t change anything about it. What happened happened, and really all I can do is move forward and learn from it. I can be stubborn, and there were things about the fight I was being stubborn about and I didn’t really want to look at. But here I am now, seeing what I needed to see from it removed from the situation all the emotions aside, and I was able to look at it strategically and…I don’t know, I think I’ve been able to fix and maneuver what I needed to do in order to go back to that fight.
“But that’s not the fight I’m going to have now. What I have to do is [fight] a different opponent, and I don’t know, I feel like a different me. A different skill set, a different mindset. It’s humbling to lose, and it’s humbling to lose like that. It’s a really, really good thing, honestly, because it definitely put me in check.”
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