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The 34-year-old admitted during a recent podcast appearance that she has spent the past few months evaluating her future after multiple disappointing results and the lengthy recovery from injuries sustained in her last bout.
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Rose Namajunas discusses injuries, recent losses and her UFC future
Namajunas still intends to fight again, but she wants to make sure she has the right reason for returning. The former strawweight champion lost to Natalia Silva at UFC 324 in January and had to undergo surgery shortly after her fight with Silva to repair damage caused by an accidental eye poke.
“It was like a three-month process,” Namajunas said on the “Weighing In” podcast. “After the fight, I had to get this surgery right away. They put this weird silicone tube in my eye. It was a really easy surgery, though. It was just kind of uncomfortable. I couldn’t blow my nose. I couldn’t rub my eye because it could pop out, so I had to be off — no contact training for three months.”
She also revealed that she suffered a torn ulnar collateral ligament in her thumb during the recovery process. Namajunas was finally cleared to resume training in April, but has yet to schedule her next bout. The aforementioned setbacks have left her contemplating her future.
“That’s why I’ve been sitting out for a while because I’m trying to rediscover, OK, what am I doing now?” Namajunas added. “The last three opportunities that I had — the Natalia fight, the Erin Blanchfield fight and the Manon [Fiorot] fight — I was told that I would get a title shot with a win. I came up short in all three of those. I’m at a point in my life where I’m thinking about family stuff and all these things, and next steps, future things. So, I do want to compete and I still want to fight again, but I want to make sure that when I’m going in there, I’m going for a purpose and a reason.”
Namajunas is 1-2 in her last three bouts and 3-3 since moving up to flyweight.
This article first appeared at Recent News on Sherdog.com
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