Dana White berättar om varför det var jobbigt att se Ronda Rousey (12-1) bli besegrad via KO av Holly Holm (10-0) på UFC 193.
White förklarar att Rousey är en väldigt god vän till honom och att det var därför det var jobbigt att se henne förlora på det sättet som hon gjorde.
”In the history of the sport there’s been two people; Chuck Liddell, who I was very close to, and Ronda Rousey, who I was very close to,” he said. ”She’s one of my very good friends, so to see her lose that way, yeah, it was tough.
”She’s super talented and she’s so aggressive. The reason she’s such a huge star is because she’s that type of fighter, ’anybody, anywhere, anytime.’ I actually made the Holly Holm fight, and everybody criticized me for making that fight,” sa han. ”I made the Holly Holm fight because she’s the most decorated boxer ever in female boxing, world class kickboxer who has won world titles, undefeated in MMA, and sh-t, the height and reach advantage. It was the right fight to make, she was the best female fighter at the time that hadn’t already fought Ronda Rousey.
White berättar att när han pratade med Rousey för några dagar sedan berättade hon att hon var helt slut, både mentalt, fysiskt och emotionellt inför matchen mot Holm.
”I talked to her almost everyday after the fight, when she sat down with me and [UFC CEO] Lorenzo [Fertitta] a few days ago, she said, ’I was exhausted going into that fight. Mentally, physically, emotionally.’ She had a lot of personal things going on too with her family.”
