Up and Adams<\/a>. \u201cI took it before. I was diagnosed with cortical spreading depression, which was always happening in my last fights and basically why I was like I need to stop. I thought my concussions were catching up to me.<\/p>\n\u201cThis is the first fight where I was able to take it and when I spiked my head into the mat, that\u2019s exactly the kind of thing that would have set me off before. I would have lost big chunks of my vision and it didn\u2019t come back at all. It ended up working perfectly in a live situation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rousey\u2019s career initially ended after she suffered back-to-back knockout losses to Holm and Amanda Nunes. It wasn\u2019t until years later when she was preparing to release an autobiography that Rousey claimed repeated head injuries caused her to suffer those knockout losses and eventually leave the sport before further damage was done.<\/p>\n
Rousey later stated UFC CEO Dana White got her in contact with new doctors who discovered her head injuries weren\u2019t caused by repeated concussions and instead gave her medicine to cure the symptoms that effectively ended her fighting career. Regardless, Rousey emphatically stated her priorities have changed, which is why she was willing to come back to face Carano but wasn\u2019t sticking around to face anybody else\u2014Holm included.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was just talking yesterday how I feel like an alchemist where a person goes through everything they went through and they return a changed person at the end,\u201d Rousey said. \u201cI feel like how many years ago, 10 years ago or whatever the hell it would be, this would be exactly what I would have wanted. More than anything. A chance at coming back and redemption and beating her and I could feasibly have Amanda Serrano or something after that and have bigger and bigger money fights and all this fame and all this money and right now it\u2019s completely within my grasp.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m better than I\u2019ve ever been. I have better coaches than I\u2019ve ever had. I finally don\u2019t have these neurological issues that I had before. But now that I have it all set in front of me, I\u2019ve changed and the things that I want have changed and suddenly these aren\u2019t the most important things in the world to me anymore. It\u2019s these kids and spending time with them. I think that\u2019s the journey that I had to go through. I had to get to this point where you could have all of those things that you wanted 10 years ago but you\u2019ve grown and you\u2019re a different person now and you don\u2019t want those things anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rousey insisted she would produce a much different result in a rematch against Holm, but the fight is never going to happen because she\u2019s not fighting again. She\u2019s putting MMA behind her again and putting her full focus on family.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I definitely have the ability and the opportunity to be able to f*cking clean her clock and rewrite all of that but it\u2019s no longer important to me anymore,\u201d Rousey said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t haunt me. It\u2019s not the most important thing in my life and these people\u2019s perceptions and knowing how great I am and all this stuff.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know how good I am and my kids need me in their life and I want to be there for them. This isn\u2019t the most important thing anymore. Of course the time that I get where I could go back and do that, I don\u2019t want to go back. I only want to go forward.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ronda Rousey is confident she would beat Holly Holm in a rematch even if it\u2019s never going to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,701,211425,248131,82,640,702],"class_list":["post-700293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-latest-news","tag-mvp-mma","tag-mvp-mma-news","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700293","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=700293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}