The first incident took place during an interview she had with Golic & Wingo on ESPN Radio. There, she misunderstood a question Golic had asked her about her MMA future,
Check out what followed, with a transcript from WrestlingInc.
Mike Golic: Let’s go back and start with when you knew you were done with MMA, when you knew in your mind you were not gonna fight anymore.
Ronda Rousey: I never said that.
Golic: Ah, so there is a possibility that you could go back, in time?
Rousey: There’s a possibility that I can go back in time? That’s your question to me?
Golic: Go back in time and fight, go back in the Octagon.
Rousey: I do not have the ability to go back in time, no.
Golic: Would you fight again?
Rousey: I don’t know.
Here was the entire interview:
If that wasn’t enough, Rousey would later appear on ESPN’s First Take with Max Kellerman where he asked about the backlash towards Rousey following her loss to Holly Holm at UFC 193 back in 2015.
Here is the transcript:
Kellerman: Why do you think there was kind of a negative backlash to you after the loss?
Rousey: Ummm…
Kellerman: In other words, people, you must be aware, in the MMA world there was a lot of talk – well she was overrated, she was this, she was that. And my point of view at the time, and remains, is that you achieved amazing heights. Almost no one wins forever, everyone suffers setbacks but there seemed to be an unusual amount of negative pushback after your loss. Did you not experience that?
Rousey: I experience a lot of people who quote “some people” that are really just afraid to state their own opinion.
Kellerman: Do you think that’s my opinion?
Rousey: *shrugs*
Kellerman: No, that’s not my opinion, I can tell you right now. That’s not my opinion. I thought you achieved amazing things. I was and am, remain a big fan of your fighting and of you. That’s not me saying “some people” meaning me, that’s me saying I read and heard from others, and defended you.
Rousey: Well, thank you for defending me. I appreciate that.
Many people on social media have taken one of two approaches to the segments. The first of which is that Rousey needs a better mouthpiece, as she isn’t the best at getting answers across and understanding what is expected of her, while others claim that ESPN shouldn’t have been so focused on her past, which she clearly does not seem to want to talk about and focus on the future with WWE that she is excited about.
Where do you stand? What are your thoughts on the interviews? Are you still willing to give Rousey her chance at ‘WrestleMania?’
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