Den obesegrade bantamviktsmästarinnan Ronda Rousey dök igår upp under ”The Joe Rogan Experience” där hon diskuterade sin karriär och vart hon är på väg. Hon berättade då att hon inte är säker på när hennes MMA-karriär kommer att ta slut, men erkänner att den inte skulle kännas komplett utan ett möte mot brasilianskan Cristiane ”Cyborg” Santos.
Det här berättade Rousey:
It just seems unfinished – my career, there’s more left to do – I don’t feel like I’m done yet. With the Olympics it just like, you win an Olympic gold medal and you’re done. With the UFC, when am I really done? I’m not. It feels unfinished still. (The ‘Cyborg’ fight) definitely would (help).
I’m not going to be doing this in my 30s; I don’t want to be fighting in my 30s. By 30s, I mean like 31, 32. If you’re actually 30 years old that’s 30, not 30s. Once you add the one, that’s 30s, plural. I’m 28. I don’t know. I look at it exactly like how we were talking about fighting, that’s how I do everything else. I don’t look at these separate disjointed things. I’m not going to go in there and try this thing and try this thing and try that thing and hope something works out.
Ett möte med Cyborg kommer dock endast ske om denne går med på att gå ner en viktklass. Rousey står fast vid detta och förklarar att mycket av det beror på Cyborgs positiva dopningstest under 2011, då hon testade positivt för den anabola steroiden stanozolol.
The thing is, someone who uses steroids and those kind of things, they need that to mentally think they have an advantage they didn’t earn. It’s a crutch for her. She needs to feel like she somehow has an advantage from the outside. She doesn’t think she’s good enough with what she has. That’s why you dope in the first place because you feel like the best you have isn’t good enough. She feels like if we fight fair, what she has isn’t good enough. That’s why she wants it to be somehow stacked in her favor.
If you can make weight and be on steroids, even if it’s making weight or a relatedly making weight-friendly steroid, you’re still, without it you’re capable of moving down. You see what happens to people without it when they get off of steroids? You see what they look like. It’s very easy for them to drop down. They immediately shrink up. It changes everything. It’s all an insecurity thing.
Rousey har inga bevis för att Cyborg använder steroider idag, men förklarar varför hon har sina misstankar.
When you look at these people from before they were using and after, they look entirely different. ‘Cyborg’ looks in ways exactly the same. If she gets off it will be very easy for her to make weight (because of) what we’ve seen from every other person that’s got off it. I think that – I can’t say with proof or anything, but if you look the exact same as you did when you were using, then what changed?
Rousey kommer härnäst att möta den före detta boxaren Holly Holm under UFC 193 och i kö om att få en titelmatch mot henne står bland annat Miesha Tate och Amanda Nunes. Cyborg är dock den som fansen helst vill se i ett möte med judokan.
If she never steps up, I’ll know (why). I’ll probably go a little longer waiting for her, but you know, if she showed up sooner rather than later, I don’t know how much longer I would go after that.
