![]() “At that moment, I was kind of questioning that, especially because it’s not so much the act of fighting itself, but just sometimes the entertainment side of it where people literally just pay money to watch violence. I just want to do what He wants me to do. If this is wrong or not a good thing to do as a person, I don’t want to take part in it, regardless of what the world thinks or what I want to do or anything like that. … But I was always at peace with it because if God doesn’t want me to fight, that’s how I felt for a second. Just having an uncharacteristic fight, I’ve always been an aggressive fighter, I’ve always been an exciting fighter, I’ve never really had a boring fight, even fights that I’ve lost. “Of course, as a musician, when you end on going back to the home key, that just kind of feels weird,” Namajunas said. ![]() Still, Namajunas admits that going out on an uneventful loss to Esparza would have stung, even with the reservations that she’s long had about combat sports. ![]() That has a lot of question marks around it, but that’s where we’re at right now.” I’ve always had all these different goals, financial goals and personal goals, and becoming the champ, all that stuff, and then one of the last goals on my list was maybe I could become two-division champ. I know I don’t have a ton of time left, but I know He’s not finished with me yet in this chapter. But I kind of came back around to, ‘No, this is definitely what God has called me to do.’ He kind of has all different special gifts for everybody and some people are warriors and some people are preachers, so obviously I’ve been gifted with the warrior spirit and just something special. I just kind of questioned whether or not God wanted me to keep going and maybe this isn’t part of of a godly life. I know there was more than just the feeling of not really wanting to partake in violence. “After Carla, it was kind of like, I forgot exactly all the factors. Then I ended up becoming the champ again and that had so much meaning to it. And then it was like, I guess I might as well keep going. I had already achieved becoming a champion, defending a champion belt, and then losing it, and then even at that point when I lost it and when I decided to rematch Andrade and I wanted her because I wanted to fix that mistake, to me, I never thought in my mind, ‘I’m going to make it to the belt again.’ That was the last thing on my mind, but as a martial artist, I needed to have that one fight. It’s obviously not the first time that I’ve questioned whether I should keep doing this or not. So I was just like, ‘I guess I’m done.’ There’s definitely a bunch of other factors that went into it. “I was just kind of like-There’s definitely a number of things, but the way that I felt in the locker room, I just didn’t feel aggressive and I felt like I don’t really want to hurt anybody. “I definitely thought I was done for a good amount of time,” Namajunas said on The MMA Hour. With little word from the fighter herself for the better part of the past 14 months, it was unclear if Namajunas was even planning to compete again.Īccording to Namajunas, she questioned her future as much as anyone. Rose Namajunas could see the end of the road after her most recent fight.Ī much-maligned strawweight title loss to Carla Esparza at UFC 274 left fans wondering how Namajunas could put on a dud of a performance on such a big stage, something Namajunas has thought about herself during her hiatus from competition.
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