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When Holly Holm knocked out Ronda Rousey at UFC 193 and claimed the UFC Bantamweight Championship, it was a blow to the former champ's mental state.
As we previously reported, Rousey admitted that she contemplated suicide afterwards.
This is not a healthy attitude towards athletics and I hope Ronda gets help before thinking about fighting again. https://t.co/8elcDSXmmd
— Jonathan Snowden (@JESnowden) February 16, 2016
"Honestly, my thought in the medical room, I was sitting in the corner and was like, 'What am I anymore if I'm not this?'" Rousey told Ellen DeGeneres. "Literally sitting there thinking about killing myself. In that exact second, I'm like, 'I'm nothing. What do I do anymore? No one gives a shit about me anymore without this.'"
Holm was was asked about the comments during an interview with Sherdog.
“There’s a lot of things around that. When I heard that she said that, for me it’s one of those things it’s like, ‘How do I respond to that?’” Holm said. “I don’t want to say I’m sorry because I think on a competitive level for me, if somebody was to say they’re sorry after [beating me], it’s like, ‘No, I’m a competitor.’ I’m not a charity case.
I feel like that’s something the best thing is for me not to say anything at all. I don’t want to say that I’m glad that she felt that way and I don’t want to say, ‘Oh I’m so sorry.’ It’s something I think that you have to dig through on your own. In the long run, she’ll be stronger mentally from it.”
Brock Lesner Responds To Ronda Rousey's Suicidal Thoughtshttps://t.co/1KgSpFFLHp
— ChasinDatPaper (@ChasinMoPaper) February 17, 2016
WWE fighter and former UFC Heavyweight Champion, Brock Lesner, told ESPN that Rousey has to learn to take the good with the bad while competing.
"I'm a big fan of Ronda's and have been since the beginning," Lesnar said while speaking to "SportsCenter" on Tuesday night. "One thing that I learned and she should have learned a long time ago was that you have to learn how to lose before you can actually win."
Former boxing champion Mike Tyson has struck up a friendship with Rousey. When TMZ Sports caught up with him on Tuesday he offered her some words of advice.
"It's a moment in time. She's [just] gonna feel that way now," Tyson said, before admitting to having experienced bad thoughts after both wins and losses.
Also check out what MMA journalist and Fox Sports analyst, Ariel Helwani, had to say below.
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