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At one point in her UFC career, Ronda Rousey was one of the biggest draws in the entire combat sports world. Sadly, Rousey’s time at the top is long gone, and now the former bantamweight champion is dealing with some scary aftereffects.
In a recent interview with “UNTAPPED,” Rousey revealed that she dealt with temporary blindness and migraines as a result of her fighting career. But she says she doesn’t regret the decision to keep stepping into the cage.
New Info And Medical Advancements Have Ronda Rousey Optimistic About Health
“Two of my triggers (are) bright lights and head impacts—so I’d get hit and I’d basically lose big chunks of my vision and my depth perception and my ability to track movements quickly and make snap decisions, which is basically all the things that I need and I thought I have a concussion,” she said. “I’m out on my feet, but I wouldn’t be stumbling around. I didn’t lose my balance. This was like, I had to retire because this kept happening to me more and more often to the point where I would get a jab and I would basically go blind.”
Rousey then said that after consulting with doctors, she’s discovered the root causes of her neurological issues and is hopeful she can treat them to some degree moving forward. She added that while it’s unlikely she ever fights again, she’s more optimistic than ever before about her quality of life moving forward.
“Now that I’m kind of getting some help in diagnosis and stuff like that, I’m much more hopeful than I’ve ever been and instead of just being like, ‘OK, this is just part of it, I’ve just got to walk away before it gets worse,’ possibly there’s something I can do to make it better,” Rousey stated. “I just didn’t have this information back then. I didn’t know what to say other than there’s something going on with me and I can’t fight anymore because of it.”