Marloes Coenen Says Bellator 155 Loss Hurt Her

Marloes Coenen spoke with MMAjunkie about her fight with Talita Nogueira at Bellator 163 and more. Some highlights are below:

On her reaction to her loss against Alexis Dufresne: “It was really hard for me. I’ve lost before but I’ve always had an excuse for myself. I never said it on social media or anything, but I always knew why I lost. This time it was really my own fault. It really hurt to my core. It hurt a very long time. Not only my arm, but mentally it hurt a really long time.”

On her physical state: “I had an issue for about a decade and I never spoke about it because I would go see doctors and specialists and all that. After 10 years of searching I found the answer and it was just being overtrained. I had severe side effects from being overtrained, so when I lost in the cage I knew why: I had no energy. This time I have good health now. My cardio is great. This time I can’t say that. It was my own fault. That’s why it hurt that much. It screws up your liver and you’re very tired. When I was 20 you could get contractions in the muscles in my body and I couldn’t stop it. … It hit me that I wasn’t sick, it was just being overtrained. I changed a lot of things in my routine. Less hours in the gym, more rest, better diet. For Miesha, I was overtrained I had to diet to 135 and that was a very difficult combination. I never had energy to be in the cage.”

On reounding from the loss: “As a human being it helped me to grow, because when you have so much pain you finally learn. All the fighters have big losses. Ronda Rousey hurt her jaw, Miesha Tate lost her title to (Amanda) Nunes. As a person it helps you to grow and as a fighter it gave a lot of motivation. It was the kind of motivation I didn’t have for years because I’ve been doing this for 16 years on a professional level. Sometimes the motivation goes. I’m so motivated to redeem myself and that’s the upside of the loss.”

On a possible rematch with Dufresne: “They offered her a rematch and she declined. She has a really big mouth and I also think she knows it would not happen again. If I’m fighting someone and I beat the person and they want to fight me again, I will fight them. Then I will fight them until they don’t want to fight me anymore. She has a different mindset picking fights and stuff like that. She’s afraid of losing if she fights me again. In my carrer, sometimes I fought a fighter three times. I don’t care. I’ll fight you until you don’t want to fight me. I think she’s very disrespectful to the game. She signed a contract saying she would be on weight on a certain day. If you don’t make it three times in a row it tells me you don’t have a lot of respect for the game, for the fans, for Bellator and for no one. Not for yourself as well. There’s still some bad blood between us and I hope I find her on the other side of the cage again.”