An emotional Ronda Rousey revealed to Ellen DeGeneres on Tuesday, February 16, that she contemplated suicide after her devastating UFC loss to Holly Holm.
“It’s always crazy going into every fight. Always so much chaos, and so many things going on. Things weren’t perfect. They never are,” the athlete, 29, reflected to DeGeneres. “It was my third title fight in nine months, and I don’t think anyone has even attempted that before.”
Rousey was undefeated prior to that fateful UFC 193 match in Australia last November. “I got clipped in the first exchange, so I was knocked out on my feet like the first time I got hit,” Rousey recalled of the shocking loss. “It’s hard to really know what’s going on. In that first hit I cut up my whole mouth and I knocked my teeth loose. Guys fight for five five-minute rounds, they are teeing off each other’s faces the whole time and nothing like that happens. It’s just destiny, it had to go down that way.”
