Ronda Rousey returns to training after eight years

Former UFC champion Ronda Rousey has resumed grooming aft an eight-year hiatus. Considered 1 of the pioneers of women's MMA, Rousey was the archetypal pistillate to header the Octagon successful 2013, and her dominance successful the bantamweight part laid the instauration for the sport's popularity today. After consecutive losses to Holly Holm and Amanda Nunes and concussion issues, Rousey has returned to training, writes Bloody Elbow.

On The Breakfast Club, she explained the reasons for her return. It each started erstwhile a trainer asked her to assistance her gain a achromatic loop successful judo. "I'm conscionable having amusive with it again," Rousey said of grooming successful MMA. "It got to a constituent wherever I felt similar it was benignant of taken distant from me, and I was warring and grooming for reasons that weren't my own."

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Rousey added that aft her latest pregnancy, she wants to reclaim her carnal identity. "Pregnancy itself is truthful damn hard. I virtually felt similar an invalid compared to being a finely tuned diversion machine. I wanted to reclaim my carnal individuality from being conscionable a vas to make different person. I went to extremes, I didn't privation to train, I didn't privation to bash anything."

Today, she responds with caller confidence: "Everyone asks maine what I bid for, and I say, 'For my ain pleasure, is that bad?' They archer maine I look good, and I say, 'Well, due to the fact that I'm the top ever.'" She besides cited the instrumentality of Mike Tyson arsenic an inspiration, which, she says, "proves that nary 1 is ever genuinely finished."

Rousey has agelong been considered the champion pistillate MMA fighter, with 8 rubric wins successful UFC and Strikeforce. However, Amanda Nunes has taken that rubric and is present wide accepted arsenic the top combatant of each time. Nunes defeated Miesha Tate astatine UFC 200, past knocked retired Rousey successful conscionable 48 seconds successful her archetypal rubric defense. Today, the Brazilian has 11 wins successful UFC rubric fights and has defeated each champion successful the 61kg and up categories but for Kayla Harrison.

Rousey is present focused connected her ain comeback, grooming and the pleasance that the athletics gives her, acceptable to amusement herself again successful the Octagon and amusement that adjacent aft a interruption she tin beryllium dominant.