Ronda Rousey Believes Her Haters Will Miss Her When She’s Gone
Current UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey is on one heck of a ride right now. Before and certainly after UFC 190 her popularity has risen to heights the sport of MMA has never seen before and might not see again. Ronda Rousey being called a superstar is an understatement. Calling her a megastar might do it justice.
From not only how much attention she gets when she fights, but the stuff she does outside the Octagon. Movies, commercials and more is just some of the things that Rousey is doing with her time when she’s not knocking out female fighters in a matter of seconds.
“I don’t even think I’m going to know what is going on right now or realize what is going on right now until afterward, until it’s all done,” Rousey reflected Monday on the Joe Rogan podcast.
“I could just try to do the best that I can in the moment, but I don’t really think that any of us really comprehend what’s going on right now until we’re looking at it in hindsight. And that’s the kind of thing, I think it’s kind of funny. There’s so many people who just live to hate me, but when I’m gone, they’re going to miss me. They really are.”
Rousey, who is 28-years old, claimed that she doesn’t plan to have a long career. She doesn’t want to fight into her thirties.
“It just seems unfinished. My career, there’s more left to do,” Rousey said. “I don’t feel like I’m done yet. Because with the Olympics, it’s just like you win the gold medal and you’re done. With the UFC, when am I really done?
“But I’m not going to be doing this in my thirties,” Rousey added later. “I don’t want to be fighting into my thirties. By thirties, I mean like 31, 32.”
Rousey brought up the lack of talent in her division by claiming that they don’t have the same drive that she does. That hungry and desire to be a champion like she does.
“I notice a lot of these girls, they would like to win a UFC belt and have that respect, but they’re not about that life,” Rousey said. “They don’t want that life. They don’t want that attention, scrutiny, pressure, and constant work and all of those things. They don’t want it. They want one thing without the other, but it all comes together.
“And that’s I think one thing that’s kind of working against them, is when they actually come in to fight me, they get a taste, a small taste, of what that life is going to be like when they’re a contender — because it is way more attention, way more this, way more that. And once you win the belt, it’s just doubled every single time. It’s more and more and more and more. And I don’t think any of them would actually be happy with that lifestyle. I don’t think they really, truly want it.”
Rousey is set to fight Holly Holm at UFC 193.
