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Ronda Rousey: Dana White Updates Fans on UFC Star's Uncertain Future

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UFC star Ronda Rousey, left.
UFC star Ronda Rousey, left, with Amanda Nunes in Las Vegas, December 30, 2016. UFC President Dana White believes Rousey may have fought for the final time. Christian Petersen/Getty
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UFC President Dana White believes former women's bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey is finished as a fighter.

Rousey, 30, went undefeated in UFC before she was knocked out by Holly Holm in Melbourne, Australia, in November 2015.

She took a break of more than a year, but Rousey's comeback fight against Amanda Nunes at UFC 207, December 30, 2016, lasted just 48 seconds, ending in a technical knockout of the former Olympic judo bronze medallist.

"Her spirits are good and she's doing her own thing," White told the UFC Unfiltered podcast. "In the conversation I had with her, if I had to say right here, right now—and I don't like saying right here, right now because it's up to her, it's her thing—but I wouldn't say she fights again. I think she's probably done. I think she's going to ride off in the sunset and start living her life outside of fighting."

Rousey's interests outside the UFC octagon include a film career, with a remake of 1980s movie Road House still in production.

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