UFC News & Notes: Ronda Rousey Taking Time Off from UFC After Holly Holm Fight
UFC Women's Bantamweight champion "Rowdy" Ronda Rousey is set to defend her title for the seventh time at UFC 193 on Nov. 15 at Melbourne, Australia against Holly Holm. However, Ronda is looking forward already after the fight, telling Rolling Stone that she will be taking time off from mixed martial arts.
"I'm selling a product and I have to be out there. I don't have the option not to be. But after this fight, I'm definitely going to let some people miss me, for sure. Believe me, there's nothing I would like to do more than disappear for a while," Rousey said.
"I would like to wait until UFC 200 to fight again. I'm going to be filming movies in the meantime, so I'm still going to be keeping busy. When I'm filming it's kind of weird, I'm on camera the whole time, but nothing really goes out until a year or two later. It is kind of like disappearing in a way," she added.
Rousey confirmed in a fan Q&A in Australia for the promotion of UFC 193 that she would be filming "Mile 22" with Mark Wahlberg and Iko Uwais in Jakarta, Indonesia in March 2016, per MMA Mania. She is also scheduled to star in the remake of Patrick Swayze's "Road House."
The movie's script is still in development, but her character will be a new version for Swayze's portrayal in the original film. "Rowdy" told FOX Sports that the moment she heard that there will be a remake of the movie, she went around Hollywood and made sure that she will get the part.
The 28-year-old revealed that the original movie reminds her good memories of her childhood, watching the 1989 cult classic with her father. Rousey said that it makes her happy knowing her father would have loved that she landed the role.
UFC 200 is a historic event for the UFC and it was formally announced to be held on July 9, 2016 at Las Vegas' new state of the art arena that is scheduled to open in April 2016, per MMA Fighting. It is named as Las Vegas Arena that is being constructed behind the New York, New York casino with a 20,000 seating capacity.
Bloody Elbow reports that the Zuffa is planning to bid for the naming rights of the new arena to become the "UFC Center." If Rousey retains her title and indeed return by July next year, her possible opponents will be the ones in the top ten rankings that she has not beaten including Amanda Nunes and Julianna Peña, per the UFC Rankings.
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