for the undisputed, UFC, strawweight champion!
-And that is it! -Oh!
Rose Namajunas!
-She's out! she's out! -It is all over!
I mean she's a special fighter, she's only 25 years of age.
The real question is, Is she ready?
There is a new strawweight queen!
(ALL ON THE LINE)
(THE COMEBACK)
ROSE: My ultimate purpose as a martial artist is,
to protect myself at all times and help others around me.
You know, life is a fight, at least that's my experience.
-All ready? Camera ready? Should we go ahead an roll?
-Ok, sounds feeding.
This is an interview with Rose,
take one, mark.
Putting it all on the line? What it feels like? Oh, wow.
That was the most slack performance, that I ever had.
I really just didn't care about being there. Unfortunate end for her title reign her tonight.
For like a whole year, just didn't really do anything and
didn't know what I was doing.
Will see if I'm still interested in this.
RIPORTER: What do you mean about that?
Are you not considering to run for the title again?
ROSE: -I don't know, I just want to do something else with my life right now
I knew that I was good,
but I just made that realisation, like this is not the sport to be halfassing it.
Just to show up on the day when you don't feel like it.
Like you got to be all in!
I'm sure I cried a lot,
I'm sure Pat remembers more of it, then myself,
but there was a lot of beating myself up,
and like not feeling confident.
But overtime I think, just doing little things help build my confidence again.
It was a rocky road.
It's like when you create a big mess, you have to like clean one corner at a time.
You can't just snap your fingers and everything be perfect, you know.
Through out the whole process, there was times,
where I would like start to text back and forth with Dana.
He wanted me to fight for the belt. And fight Weili, but I just wasn't ready to.
And then eventually I got to the point,
where I was like, I just want to fight Andrade first,
because I can't rightly go into a title fight without correcting that mistake
-So much was made though of your mental and physical preparation
but you seem like you were having a lot of fun in there tonight.
Is that fair to say?
- I just was in the right state of mind that's everything!
I think everybody was sort of like looking for who's the strawweight queen
because the belt had kind of tossed around ever since I beat Joanna and
everybody's like looking to Weili to be the one
but nobody could really commit to that until she faced me.
Weili brings lots of toughness, speed, accuracy
and I think you know the normal like hard-working things like that determination
but I think she just brings a whole other level to it
that most girls don't have.
It's like climbing a mountain you can be prepared all you want
but it's going to be tough.
Ultimately it's like what you're willing to go through
because if you're not willing to go through some suffering and things like that
you're probably going to quit.
((Rose rises to occasions. That's what she's in the sport for.))
((To find out what is her spirit, like who is she?))
((I think this is her greatest challenge))
((and I believe we are going to see the best version of Rose Namajunas to date ))
-Here we go!
ROSE: There's really not much conversation that happens in the locker room before the fight
it's more just like kind of getting ready and hit pads.
I don't know from there everything else is sort of a blur.
- It's time let's go!
ROSE: I mean like i don't want to make it sound traumatic but it kind of is traumatic you know
but if you've ever been in a car accident and everything sort of like slows down
but everything's like also super fast
yeah it's like psychedelic almost
What was going on in my head was i mean there was times where i was like
I feel good, I feel this and that
and then it was like oh my arms feel like noodles
and i'm like no they feel great
and then you know just kind of going back and forth between
like confident, unconfident, confident, unconfident.
She has the potential to knock me out or hurt me bad or submit me and i was like
no f** that,
like I'm the best
The feeling that I had was just, being patient, not force anything.
((one of the things that we talked about, John))
((was the importance of Rose's movement))
((she's got to be light on her feet))
((she's got to create a lot of angles))
I kind of go to one side, and then I go to the other, and start to like open her guard
as I was moving around I started to notice like
her guards start to open and I just saw like this part of her chin.
it was almost like just the stars aligned like
it was the stars alining,
my body just filled in the spot and left leg came up
and then I just saw her body collapse like a tree.
like I did it but it was really like this part of god's plan
whether or not that's something you believe in or whatever,
you definitely felt something when you watched it
I mean you knew you were witnessing something special
I mean that was a Bruce Lee kick,
Lil Wayne was talking about making a song about me
and then there was like everybody the whole world was on fire
that was a pretty lit performance.
-so Rose, you shook up the world again!
-I did it again!
-Rose, there's some special moments in MMA and I feel like I just witnessed a real one
ROSE: I was riding in the high for a few months,
when I came back home, I didn't sleep for like two days
and just it was um adrenaline rush for like a couple months.
((Doc Rose ladies and gentlemen, the champion of the world))
Yeah couldn't write it any better!