But while fans might want to believe a return is brewing, Rousey insists she\u2019s not staging a comeback (yet)\u2014 she\u2019s simply rediscovering her love for the sport that once defined her.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have a cage in my garage. It\u2019s not like I went anywhere,\u201d Rousey told The Breakfast Club recently. \u201cI\u2019m just having fun with it again. It got to a point where it kind of got hijacked from me, and I was fighting and training for reasons other than my own. I think after having my last baby, being pregnant is f\u2014king tough. It felt like I was handicapped just compared to being a finely tuned athletic machine, where I feel like I can do anything, to suddenly I think if I did a forward roll, I would throw my back out.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s just where it started, I wanted to get my bodily identity back from just being a vessel for creating another person,\u201d Rousey added. \u201cJust get that freedom of movement back. I started training MMA again because I feel like I kind of lost that identity as being a fighter. I think it broke my heart too much to be anywhere near it because I love it so much. I kind of went to the extreme where I don\u2019t want to train. I don\u2019t want to do anything at all.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now, nearly a decade later, she\u2019s training again \u2014 not for a fight, but for herself.<\/p>\n
\u201cMike Tyson coming back and having the biggest fight last year, it just kind of proves that I don\u2019t think anyone\u2019s ever really done,\u201d Rousey said. \u201cWith Mike Tyson, you can never say never now. Holy shit\u2026.He got $20 million. Baddest man on the planet. 108 million views. F\u2014king comment whatever you want, that\u2019s the most-watched fight of all time, and he was almost 60. That\u2019s how much his legacy means. How much his name means. That was very inspiring.\u201d<\/p>\n
BUT, Rousey revealed she got the good news from a doctor that there are things she can do about her neurological health, where \u201cit\u2019s not the nail in the coffin of being able to fight again.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s great news, but I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m going to do with that,\u201d Rousey concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But while fans might want to believe a return is brewing, Rousey insists she\u2019s not staging a comeback…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,702,3194],"class_list":["post-218759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}