År 2014 var ett väldigt bra år för Ronda Rousey (10-0) och enligt henne ska 2015 bli ännu bättre.
Rouseys första match i 2014 var mot Sara McMann (8-2) och den matchen vann Rousey via TKO, efter det tog hon sig an Alexis Davis (16-6), där hon vann via TKO efter 16 sekunder. Förutom att ha gått matcher, fick Rousey flera roller i filmer och nya sponsorer.
Ronda Rousey har stora planer inför 2015.
”Well this is kind of a colorful way to say” sa Rousey under presskonferansen i onsdags. ”But if 2014 was like it was my bitch, then 2015 is going to look like my bitch’s bitch.”
28 feb försvarar hon sin titel mot Cat Zingano (9-0) på UFC 184. Rousey kommer tillbaka efter att vilat från en tumskada och en knäskada, som Rousey känt av i flera år.
”You have to remember, I’ve pretty much been fighting all my UFC fights with one leg,”
”Now I feel better than I did even when I was 16 years old, when I got my first knee surgery. I really feel rejuvenated, like I just molted or something and I have a brand new body and I allowed myself to rest and recuperate.”
”Even my mom, who is the biggest into working hard all of the time, more than anyone you would ever know in your life, was telling me that ‘you need to rest your body, it’s telling you something.’ And I’m very glad I did because when I cleaned up everything in my knee, we found out that I had arthritic spurs literally rubbing onto my ACL and it would’ve ruptured at any time. So we took care of everything just in time. I’m perfectly healthy and better than ever before, and I can just feel my body itching to fight again.”
Rousey är obesegrad i tio matcher och har vunnit sina matcher på ett dominant sätt, men Zingano är ett stort hot för Rousey. Zingano tycker att hon själv är en annorlunda fighter jämfört med dom som Rousey mött tidigare.
”Well, I’m different,” Zingano said. ”I know she knows that. I know the whole promotion knows that. I have things to offer that people haven’t seen before, and I just have to be me, I just have to do me, go out there with my intensity and my aggression and I’m unstoppable. I know that.”
Rousey höll med Zingano.
”I think that Cat’s resilience is one of the things that has really impressed me about her the most,” Rousey said. ”And I think that’s what’s really gotten her most of her fans. It’s not just the way that she fights, it’s the way that she endures. It’s extremely impressive.
”She’s not one of those people who can be intimidated so I won’t even bother. She’s not one of those people who can start losing a fight and you can count on them being a frontrunner and defeating themselves. She’s one of those people who has to finished all the way until the very, very end, and I’m ready for that. I’m ready for a five-round war if it needs to be that way, and I’m still going to be the better fighter that night regardless of what happens.”
