Rose Namajunas Explains Why The Time Is Now For Flyweight Reinvention | Morning Kombat Interview
Morning Kombat
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🗓️ 31 August 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Brian Campbell sits down with Rose Namajunas ahead of her fight with Manon Fiorot. When did Rose decide she wanted to move to flyweight? Did the UFC want to do the Weili Zhang trilogy? How does she expect her game to transfer to flyweight? Rose discusses it all.
(00:00:05) - Paris
(00:01:00) - Move to Flyweight
(00:02:50) - Weili Zhang Trilogy
(00:06:30) - Reinventing Herself
(00:09:00) - Manon Fiorot
(00:10:00) - Flyweight division
(00:13:30) - Hobbies
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, yeah, Thuggrove. She's back with a bang 125 pounds UFC Paris this Saturday, |
| 0:10.6 | Manon Ferro. Thuggrove, are you on the ground in France? You got to give me a report. How is it? |
| 0:17.2 | It's great, man. We checked out the Eiffel Tower, we went to the museum, we did some scouting around. |
| 0:25.5 | So are you able to, can you like pause the mental preparation of a fight and almost enjoy a |
| 0:31.0 | mini vacation when you're out there on the road like this? No, not just kidding. It's a, I know |
| 0:37.3 | everybody's like, ah, you get to travel the world, but it's like, dude, I've seen a lot of hotel |
| 0:41.0 | rooms in many different places, but yeah, it's hard to like actually go sightseeing, but this time |
| 0:47.6 | it was nice because we got here early. So, and you know, there was just a lot of time on our hands. So, |
| 0:53.6 | so I was actually really happy to be able to do that, but I mean, the whole time you're, |
| 0:57.5 | you're thinking about fighting somebody. Yeah, and yeah, no doubt about it. This is a different |
| 1:01.6 | fight, Rose. This is a move up and wait, fighting one of the best in this, this red hot division. |
| 1:07.3 | So you got to take me back to the beginning. How long had you been thinking about this flyweight |
| 1:13.1 | reinvention and how did it actually take shape to get this fight against Manon? I guess originally, |
| 1:19.4 | I got the idea when I, you know, wrote, like, this is early on in my career, when I wrote down, |
| 1:24.6 | you know, goals for myself, like, becoming a champion, dude, is by house, you know, blah, blah, blah. |
| 1:30.4 | And then, like, on the last of my goal, this was to become two division champion. And so, yeah, |
| 1:37.1 | I didn't really know how, in my mind, even though I made that as a goal, and I wrote it down, |
| 1:42.6 | I was kind of like, question mark, you know what I mean? Like, because I'm like, I don't know, |
| 1:46.4 | you know, I mean, that's so, that was so long ago. And I didn't know what, you know, this whole journey |
| 1:51.5 | was going to look like getting to this point, but here we are. And, yeah, and then I think during |
| 1:58.8 | my second title reign, as I started to get a little heavier, and as I started to like, really like |
| 2:05.6 | accomplish some things in my life and stuff, and with the career that it was like kind of, all right, |
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