The Ronda Rousey retirement rumor mill may have gathered more steam.
In an interview with MMA Junkie that was strangely spliced together, Rousey was made to sound as if she is so much happier to be away from her UFC career.
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Rousey, who in the last month has hosted "Saturday Night Live," conducted a much-ballyhooed interview with Ellen DeGeneres and also appeared on "The Tonight Show," ironically was discussing her disappearing act from the public eye.
But she also talked about her mixed martial arts career, citing some fatigue and giving credence to the possibility of retirement.
"MMA, they've been making me go non-stop," she said. "I mean, my first year --- I fought time six times in my first year. I feel like I've been burning the candle at both ends for a long time.
"In judo, I took a good period of time off after the Beijing Olympics, and I feel like I'm bodily and mentally in a similar space where it's just what I need right now."
That's whe MMA Junkie cut the video, and then her next comment was: "It's been surprising to me how happy I've been being away from it."
She didn't explain what that comment meant. In the next spliced segment, she said simply, "I'm being purposely mysterious right now because I think people have taken my availability for granted," Rousey said. "I'm kind of just wanting to disappear. Everyone is constantly keeping me under a microscope, and I just kind of want to be left alone right now."
But her sentiment, on the surface, doesn't bode well for UFC president Dana White, who has been talking up a Rousey-Holly Holm rematch almost from the moment Holm knocked out Rousey, almost with shocking ease, last November at UFC 193 in Australia.
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