Ronda Rousey Says She Contemplated Suicide After Loss To Holly Holm

Ronda Rousey says she thought about suicide after her upset loss of her UFC title to Holly Holm.

“In that first hit, I cut open my whole mouth and knocked my teeth loose and guys fight for five minute rounds and nothing like that happens. It was destiny, it had to go down that way,” Rousey told Ellen Degeneres in her first interview since the match. Rousey, in a body-con dress with her hair pulled back, explained what it was like to get hit that hard while in the ring.

The fighter explained she experienced perception and audio difficulties because of how quick and fast Holm hit her. “I-I really don’t remember most of it,” Rousey confessed.

Ellen then moved the interview into her recovery process and the fighter got very emotional recalling the moments inside the emergency room. “I was done in the corner and I was like, what am I anymore if I’m not this? Literally sitting there and thinking about killing myself,” she confessed.

She also added that seeing her boyfriend Travis Browne in the room brought her back to her senses because she “needed to have his babies.”