Holly Holm Says She Never Considered Suicide After a Loss

Holly Holm spoke with MMAjunkie about Ronda Rousey’s comment that she briefly considered suicide after her UFC 193 loss to Holm. Check out the highlights:

On her own reaction after an important boxing loss: “For me, I got knocked out, I got my eye stitched up, and I went to the press conference that night. I told myself, ‘I need to face this right now. The longer I wait to face it – the inevitable is there, I’m going to have to face it no matter what, so let’s do it now and get past this. The sooner I can deal with it the sooner I can get beyond it.’ My trainer came to me right before the press conference. I was upset, obviously crying. I was upset. Your heart is broken, and he came up to me and said, ‘You’re going to go out to that press conference and they’re going to ask you about a rematch.’ And I said, ‘Yeah.’ He goes, ‘You know what you’re going to say? (You’re going to say) Muhammad Ali got knocked out and he came back, and he’s a legend. Why am I any different?’ Before I had any time to give myself doubt he was already picking me up. There’s no way I could have gone through that without all the help, but it started there, and obviously I had help from every single loved one around me, but it started there. He started picking me up right there before I could even leave and have those dark thoughts.”

On Rousey’s comments: “For me, I would never get that low after a loss. Maybe I’m a selfish person, but I just think I want to get back and win for me. It’s frustrating. You deal with a lot of doubt in your mind and maybe I’m not as good as I thought I was. Obviously those are the questions that go through your mind, but you have to be honest with yourself and think, ‘Maybe not. Obviously you need to get better because this fighter was better than you tonight.’ I went out to the press conference that night.”

On not taking the comments frivolously: “I keep wanting to make sure everyone knows I don’t take anything like that lightly, it’s a very serious subject. I’ve never been in that position. I’m probably the worst person to ask for advice on that. I definitively don’t want to sit here and feel sorry, because I know for me, I have a competitive mind, and I’m confident Ronda is the same, that you don’t really want sympathy from the one that like created this. That almost makes it even more frustrating. I do hope that obviously she never really entertains that. I think the best thing really, like I said, my advice is probably (not that good), I’ve never been there before mentally, but I think it’s always a good thing to surround yourself with people you trust and people that can support you and care about you.”