Rhonda Rousey is a legend in the UFC, but she may be more of an instruction in life than just in fighting.

I'm Chris Cuomo. Welcome to the Chris Cuomo Project. Thank you for subscribing and following here and watching me on News Nation every weekday night at 8 and 11p. Appreciate you. So I absolutely am a fan of Ronda Rousie, but I always had a nagging

question about why did everything change so much after her epic fight with Holly Home where she got knocked out.

And it turns out that there was an entire story about what happened before and after

that had a lot more to do with what I saw was a standalone pivot moment and I was wrong and I was wrong about something else too.

I thought that her big achievement was done when she left the ring. Sure, she's in

W. W. E. and doing all that stuff. But it turns out

the life she's living now matters a lot more to her

than anything that ever happened in the octagon.

Here's a really interesting conversation with Rhonda Rowdy, Rousie. This is a great pleasure for me.

One of the reasons I like doing the podcast is I get to talk to people who are interesting to me from my personal life and I am a big fight fan

I've watched at least a dozen of your fights and I want to thank you for all the enjoyment you given me over the years.

Thank you. It is my pleasure to be interesting to you and 12 that's almost all of them.

Yeah, that's all of the professional ones.

Well, the professional wins actually.

That's right, well, those are the ones that count,

Ronda, those are the ones that count to me.

The ones I wanted you to watch.

You know, so most people will know you just, you know, just from being a celebrity and they're not as into the fight game

that I am but I do have to indulge it for just two seconds. The first one is

did you and or your husband watch the card 300?

No, I actually was driving back from doing a signing for the book at the Niles Air Force Base and just one I just had to spend

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