Ronda Rousey is arguably the best woman MMA figher right now. But there was a time that she wasn't, and even her head coach now didn't want to train her then. Also, Rousey has been considering early retirement.
As reported by MMA Junkie, head coach Edmont Tarverdyan said that he turned a cold shoulder to Rousey when she was just beginning her MMA career.
"I'll be honest: When she came in, I didn't want to train her because I had my hands full," Tarverdyan said in a recent interview on "The Joe Rogan Experience" podcast. "I was like, 'What's this girl doing? What is she going to do with this? Is she serious? Is she not?'"
According to the The Washington Post, Tarverdyan met the women's MMA champion when she only had an Olympic Bronze Medal on her back.
But that wasn't the issue back then as Tarverderyan handles mostly male MMA fighters. But eventually, he agreed to coach her and the rest is history.
The coach then said about Rousey, "Ronda's an amazing student; I figured that out right away," he then added that, "Within the three, four months she was in my gym, I would tell her to go stay on the bag, and she would hit the bag and really hit the bag until I paid attention to her again. She would have a lot of patience and have a lot of understanding and would work very hard. After like three, four months of being in the gym, I gave her a few pointers."
But fans of Rousey were told to savor watching her inside the octagon ring as she said that she's contemplating early retirement.
According to FOX Sports, the 28-year old Rousey is thinking of retiring in her early 30s which is very soon. However, she promises that she will stick a little longer than her next fight in November.
"I haven't just been doing MMA the last five years. I've been fighting since I was 11. There's going to be a point where I'm ready to move on with my life and I'd rather plan for it instead of fall into it like I did after the Olympics. You better buy every single pay-per-view because that might be my last one."
