Ronda Rousey Reacts To Holly Holm’s Rematch Callout: I Would Clean Her Clock, But That Redemption Is No Longer Important To Me
Ronda Rousey responds to Holly Holm.
The first loss of Ronda Rousey’s UFC career came at the hands of Holly Holm in 2015 at UFC 193. Holm did an interview with MMA Fighting and said she’s open to a rematch, but highly doubts Rousey would accept.
Rousey addressed those remarks during her appearance on the Up & Adams Show with Kay Adams. Rousey feels she’s a completely different fighter and would rock Holm, but went on to explain why that redemption is no longer important to her.
“I said I’m retired, A, and B, I think that I am a completely different fighter now and I would clean her clock and definitely now that I got that new medication. I’ve took it before — I was diagnosed with cortical spreading depression, which was what was happening in my last fights and why I basically was like, ‘I need to stop’ because I thought that my concussions were catching up to me and this was the first fight where I was able to take it, and when I spiked my head into the mat, that’s exactly the kind of thing that would have set me off before and I would have lost big chunks of my vision, and it didn’t come back at all. It ended up working perfectly in a live situation and I was just talking about — yesterday — how I feel like an alchemist where the person goes through everything that they went through and they return a changed person at the end, and I feel like, you know, 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 feasibly have Amanda Serrano or something after that and have bigger and bigger money fights and all of this fame and all of this money, and right now, it’s completely within my grasp. I’m better than I’ve ever been. I have better coaching than I’ve ever had. I finally don’t have these neurological issues that I had before. But now that I have it all set in front of me, I’ve changed, and the things that I want have changed… Suddenly, these aren’t the most important things in the world to me anymore. It’s these kids, and spending time with them, and I think that’s the journey that I had to go through is I had to get to this point where you could have all of those things that you wanted 10 years ago but you have grown, and you’re a different person now and you don’t want those things anymore, and so, yeah, I 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’s no longer important to me anymore. It doesn’t haunt me. It’s not the most important thing in my life and these people’s perceptions and people knowing how great I am and all of this stuff. I know how good I am, and my kids need me in their life, and I wanna be there for them, and this isn’t the most important thing anymore, and of course, the time that I get where I now can go back and do that, I don’t wanna go back. I only wanna go forward.”
Holm is scheduled for a boxing fight on May 30th under the Most Valuable Promotions banner. She’ll be fighting Stephanie Han for the WBA Lightweight Championship.
If the quote in this article is used, please credit the Up & Adams Show with Kay Adams with an H/T to Fightful for the transcription.
