Dana White har nu pratat med Ronda Rousey – och känner på sig att hon aldrig mer kommer kliva in i buren.
HETAST JUST NU
Efter mer än ett års frånvaro gjorde den tidigare bantamviktsmästarinnan Ronda Rousey (12-2) comeback i huvudmatchen på nyårsgalan UFC 207: Nunes vs. Rousey, där hon hade chansen att återta bältet från den nuvarande titelhållaren Amanda Nunes (14-4).
Det hela slutade dock inte som hon hade förväntat sig, då den andra raka knockoutförlusten var ett faktum efter endast 48 sekunder.
”I think she’s probably done”
Nu har UFC:s vd Dana White talat med ”Rowdy” för första gången efter galan – och menar att hon med största sannolikhet kommer lägga handskarna på hyllan.
”Funny you asked me that, I just talked to Ronda this morning on the way to the gym. She’s good you know, she’s doing her thing. The conversation I had her with her, if I had to say it right here right now, and I don’t like saying anything because it’s up to her, but I wouldn’t say she fights again,” sa White i det senaste avsnittet av UFC Unfiltered och fortsatte:
”I think she’s probably done and she’s going to ride off into the sunset and live her life outside of fighting.”
Behöver aldrig jobba igen
De två förlusterna tog hårt på henne, menar White, eftersom hon är så tävlingsinriktad som person.
”It’s not even that I think it was an invincible thing, I think she is just so competitive that her career and her record meant everything to her. Once she lost she started to say to herself why the fuck am I doing? Is this my whole life? Is this just it? I think she just thought she wanted to experience and do other things and that’s what she started to do.”
Enligt White kommer Rousey aldrig behöva mer pengar – om hon inte spenderar som Floyd Mayweather (49-0 boxning), det vill säga.
”Look man, I’m happy for her,” fortsatte han. ”She came in and she changed the world. She put female fighting on the map and she’s been a part of the biggest fights in the history of women’s fighting. I hope those records can be broken. I don’t know if they can, but I hope they can.”
Svarar på kritiken mot Tarverdyan
Vidare svarade UFC-bossen på den kritik som riktats mot Rousey coach Edmond Tarverdyan.
”No one was criticizing him when she was winning,” resonerade han. ”That’s between her and him. People are like saying she should fire him, but look, everyone’s a fucking expert. When she was winning nobody was an expert and saying she should be looking at a different coach to this guy, but when she loses that’s what everybody says.”
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