Ronda Rousey is finally ready to return to the UFC.
Dana White announced Wednesday on FOX Sports 1’s The Herd with Colin Cowherd that Rousey will look to regain her women’s bantamweight title at UFC 207 on Dec. 30 in Las Vegas against current champion Amanda Nunes.
Rousey (12-1) hasn’t fought since being knocked out by Holly Holm at UFC 193 last November. The 29-year-old superstar needed time away from the sport following the devastating loss.
“I was knocked off my feet the first time I was hit. It’s hard to really know what was going on,” Rousey told Ellen DeGeneres in a February interview. “With that first hit I cut open my whole mouth and knocked my teeth loose…it was weird I had no perception, I felt like I couldn’t see. I could see but I couldn’t tell how far my hand was from my face or how far she was from me…I was swinging blindly…I really don’t remember most of it.”
Rousey took the first loss of her MMA career extremely hard.
“In the medical room, I was down in the corner, I was sitting in the corner and I was like, ‘What am I anymore if I’m not this?'” Rousey told DeGeneres. “And I was literally sitting there and thinking about killing myself in that exact second, I’m nothing. Like what do I do anymore? And no one gives a [expletive] about me anymore without this.”
Prior to her fight with Holm, Rousey had defended the women’s 135-pound belt six times in the UFC. The belt has bounced around the division ever sine she lost it. Holm lost to Miesha Tate at UFC 196 in March and Tate was defeated by Nunes at UFC 200 in July.
Nunes (13–4) has won four consecutive fights heading into UFC 207. No other fights have been added to the card at this time. The event will take place at the T-Mobile Arena.
White also told Cowherd a super-fight between Rousey and Cristiane “Cyborg” Justino is tentatively planned if Rousey beats Nunes.
“I know that Cyborg wants that fight. Ronda wants that fight too,” he said. “So Ronda’s plan right now is to try to win her title back and if that happens, the Cyborg fight will definitely happen.”
