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\nRonda Rousey will undergo extensive medical testing prior to her
\nreturn fight vs. Gina Carano. | Dave Mandel\/Sherdog.com<\/b><\/p>\n
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A couple years ago, Ronda Rousey hasn\u2019t competed in MMA since a December 2016 loss to Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cMy concussion history that I had to keep secret for years, so I Rousey was particularly tight-lipped about those issues during her \u201cI think that there was just so much to [that loss], that I \u201cSame thing with WWE. They have a complicated history with their At the time, a Rousey comeback seemed unlikely. However, that all There\u2019s also the question of the 39-year-old Rousey\u2019s fighting “We’re going to put [Rousey] through neurological and concussion According to Foster, there was never a consideration for CSAC to “As long as these women pass their medicals and pass all their Ronda Rousey will undergo extensive medical testing prior to her return fight vs. Gina Carano. | Dave Mandel\/Sherdog.com A couple years ago, Ronda Rousey made a confession: That a history of concussions forced her to exit mixed martial arts. Rousey hasn\u2019t competed in MMA since a December 2016 loss to Amanda Nunes. During an Instagram […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36822,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nRousey<\/a> made a confession: That a history of concussions forced
\nher to exit mixed martial arts.<\/p>\n
\nAmanda
\nNunes<\/a>. During an Instagram Live session to promote her book
\n\u201cOur Fight\u201d approximately two years ago, the Olympic judoka
\nwent in depth<\/a> on her history of head
\ntrauma.<\/p>\n
\nwould be able to continue to compete and perform,\u201d Rousey said.
\n\u201cThat\u2019s basically why I had to retire.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\nUFC<\/a> tenure, even after a knockout loss to Holly Holm<\/a> in
\nNovember 2015. That philosophy continued when she transitioned to
\nsports entertainment.<\/p>\n
\ncouldn\u2019t talk about it in the form of like an interview or an
\narticle or anything like that, or there would be several filters
\nbetween my words and people reading it,\u201d Rousey said. \u201cSo much had
\nto do with having so many concussions when I was in judo before I
\neven got into MMA, I couldn\u2019t talk about it at all when I was doing
\nMMA. Because it would literally put a target on my head, and I
\nmight not have been allowed to compete any farther.<\/p>\n
\nperformers getting concussions, and it would be a bad look on them.
\nSo I felt like I really couldn\u2019t talk about it at all. So I feel
\nlike this [is the] long form that I would be able to adequately
\naddress it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nchanged this week when Most Valuable Promotions announced that the
\nformer UFC bantamweight queen would face women\u2019s MMA pioneer
\nGina
\nCarano<\/a> in a five-round featherweight bout on May 16 in Los
\nAngeles. The fight between the two stars will mark Netflix\u2019s first
\nforay into broadcasting MMA.<\/p>\nNecessary Precautions<\/h2>\n
\nfitness after those past revelations. Carano, meanwhile, is 43 and
\nhasn\u2019t fought professionally since 2009. In an interview with
\nESPN<\/a>, California State Athletic Commission
\nexecutive director Andy Foster<\/a>
\nrevealed that both athletes will be required to undergo extensive
\nmedical testing ahead of their bout.<\/p>\n
\nbattery testing and make sure she’s OK,” Foster said. “We’re going
\nto have our doctors take a look. The fighters are going to have to
\ndo a lot of medicals, both of \u2018em.”<\/p>\n
\ndeny the fight when it was presented by the promoter. Now it\u2019s
\nsimply a matter of Rousey and Carano receiving full medical
\nclearance prior to May 16.<\/p>\n
\nneurological batteries and do the things they need to do,” Foster
\nsaid, “there’s nothing wrong with this fight.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"