Explanation or excuse?
That’s what you have to ask yourself after hearing parts of UFC President Dana White’s post-UFC 193 conversation with Ronda Rousey. White was on “Off The Record” with Michael Landsberg and discussed some of his conversations with Rousey.
“I’ve talked to her almost everyday after the fight and when she sat down with me and Lorenzo a few days ago, she said, ‘I was exhausted going into that fight. I was exhausted mentally, physically, emotional,'” White said. “She had a lot of personal things going on, too, with her family.”
It’s no secret that Ronda had a lot going on personally heading into that fight. The domestic violence questions about her and her current boyfriend, Travis Browne, began to mount. She also had to manage the public beef between her mom and her trainer.
Still, she maintained that she was in peak form. If she would’ve won that fight it would’ve been business as usual, so it’s hard to take these statements at face value.
Dana White says that he should’ve known something was off with Rousey when she had a skirmish at the weigh-ins.
“It was uncharacteristic of her,” White said. “She doesn’t act like that ever. Even against a girl like Bethe, who said a lot of bad things and she really didn’t like Bethe Correia.”
We’ll see if Ronda makes the necessary changes in her personal life to return to world-class form.
