UFC interim featherweight champion Conor McGregor recently reflected on the loss suffered by former women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey.

Obviously the reason Ronda lost is because the undefeated former world boxing champion Holly Holm beat ferociously. However, Rousey’s media schedule with three title fights, a book tour, multiple Hollywood movies, countless magazine covers, and more was greater than anyone in the sport has seen to date. The second heaviest media duty load is Conor McGregor’s.

If I was going to take something away from Ronda is – maybe just push everything away, said McGregor to Steven Marrocco and John Morgan for MMAjunkie. I can’t really see her situation. I don’t know her situation. From looking from where I was at, I could see that maybe she’d done a little too much on the media side.

That, coupled with a personal life that I know nothing about, could have hampered her training a little bit. Maybe could have hampered her mind. And then the particular style of opponent in Holly could have maybe combined into making her a little too emotionally invested.

It’s important to still the mind. Calm it. Make everything smaller than it is. That’s mainly what I would take from that.

She had a lot on her plate and it showed in the contest. Holly came out of the dark – in the shadows – and that can help a person. Have you ever seen ‘Rocky 3?’ Rocky was doing ads and doing talk shows and doing this and doing that while Clubber Lang was coming up in the shadows, hungry. I felt maybe that was a reference to that fight.

I’m like Rocky. I have it all, I do it all. But then I’m still training like Clubber. I’m still putting in that Clubber Lang work. I’m still grinding and still hungry. I think I’m right in a nice little balance.

We will find out at UFC 194 on December 12 when McGregor fights division champion Jose Aldo. And in the meantime, can we expect a little something like this legendary trash talk?