Ronda Rousey could also be returning to the octagon for yet another combat if a former two division UFC title challenger is to be believed. Additionally of notice, it looks like the previous UFC 135 pound titleholder has her eyes on the winner of the looming Amanda Nunes vs. Kayla Harrison title combat.
Ronda Rousey is Making a Comeback
On his private YouTube channel concerning this rumoured return for Rousey, Chael Sonnen mentioned,
Ronda Rousey gonna come again and going to combat the winner of Amanda [Nunes]-Kayla [Harrison], so long as the winner is Kayla. Okay, now that is the story. That is the story and let me inform you what a part of this I can affirm. I can affirm the story got here from Ronda.”
“Absolutely the inside circle of Ronda has let it’s recognized that she’s going to tackle the winner of Amanda and Kayla, so long as it’s Kayla.”
“So, in different phrases, I’ll return to combat for the title if Kayla wants an opponent. All proper, I’m saying the identical factor, however I simply wish to make it very clear to you as a result of that’s not how comebacks go.”
As ‘The American Gangster’ additional expounded upon what he meant by that description of Ronda Rousey and her reported return plan not becoming inside how comebacks go, Sonnen quipped,
“If anyone’s coming again, they’re coming again. In the event that they’re coming again for a title, then they’re coming again for whoever has the title. There may be no one that’s ever come again and mentioned so many issues should fall proper into the road for my comeback.”
“No, when folks come again, it’s an amazing urge. It’s a want and a thought that that they had many occasions for a few years they usually can not management it. That’s what a comeback is, simply so .”
“So, proper out of the gate once we hear, ‘I wish to come again. However I don’t wish to combat Amanda.’ Nicely, let me cease you proper there. You then’re not coming again.”
The previous two time UFC middleweight title challenger and former UFC mild heavyweight title challenger clarified that he wasn’t attempting to throw chilly water onto the plans of the previous octagon standout and former WWE star as Sonnen mentioned,
“Now, I don’t say this in any respect to choose on Ronda. I’m saying it to get in entrance of a narrative. All people in our trade is listening to the story they usually’re all speaking about it, however they don’t have fairly the affirmation to come back out and produce it to you subsequent.”
“As a matter of truth. it’s believed when Dana alluded to this large shock that none of you will note coming, that that’s what he’s alluding to—the concept of two Olympic medalists on the White House grounds; they assume is a really American [thing] and an excellent really feel.”
“Ronda by no means wanted to depart. Ronda was in regards to the eighth finest woman on the planet. Ninth, tenth finest woman beneath contract, and she or he might have had some extra which means[ful] fights, however to get a significant combat if you’re paid her sort of cash needs to be a primary occasion combat.”
When stepping into the specifics of why a comeback from somebody who left the game on their very own phrases would possibly resonate otherwise to the general public versus Ronda Rousey leaving the game after being completed twice by Holly Holm and Amanda Nunes, respectively, Sonnen quipped,
It’s very completely different if Georges St-Pierre mentioned, ‘I’m coming again.’ Or if Khabib mentioned, ‘I’m coming again.’ It’s very completely different the way in which that we’d should look left, look proper, shrug our shoulders, and say, ‘Okay, yeah, they’re coming again.’ It’s very completely different if you get beat up, when it will get taken from you, if you’re proven from a aggressive standpoint: ‘I’m not so good as her.’
“By some means, if that her—if that boogie monster—does get beat, I’m much less afraid of this new particular person and I’m going to come back again and compete. Okay, it’s an attention-grabbing psychology.”
Ronda Rousey and Kayla Harrison’s prior historical past
Ronda Rousey and Kayla Harrison have beforehand examined expertise on the planet of Judo with the previous incomes a dominant win over the latter as part of the USA championships in 2005.
That prior historical past from twenty years in the past in one other martial arts self-discipline appears to have little bearing on what a gift day conflict might appear to be between the 2 as Sonnen acknowledged,
“There may be nothing from an affordable standpoint that may make us assume anyone obtained higher at one thing by not doing it.”
“However the concept, the idea, the rub, and the shine that may go to Kayla after destroying Ronda—it will be a pleasant factor to surrender and to present again, however there’s a take a look at. This entire factor’s for consideration.”
“Typically you bought to make that stroll to get that correct consideration, however this entire factor’s a take a look at.”
“Ronda versus Kayla. Not solely will that not occur, Ronda Rousey competing in something at 135 kilos additionally not gonna occur.”
The concept of an MMA comeback turns into particularly curious too contemplating the previous UFC bantamweight champion herself has talked about earlier than the myriad of concussion points she has had in her life and Rousey even used the language of ‘not neurologically match to compete’ to explain her state of affairs.
Whereas some clips have emerged in latest occasions of Rousey getting in some martial arts coaching and visually seeming to be in nice form, it stays to be seen if the embellished judoka brings her ‘Rowdy’ vitality again to the octagon sooner or later.
