Rose Namajunas almost had the chance to become the youngest UFC champion in history when she fought for the first-ever strawweight title. She would have beaten Jon Jones and apparently had a very similar future.
Jon Jones has a big reputation for being reckless and doing drugs as UFC champion. Rose Namajunas recently admitted on The MMA Hour she would have had the same problems herself.
“Had I won that fight, who knows where I would be,” Namajunas said. “I was going to be youngest champion, like, younger than Jon Jones. Not definitely, but I can only imagine that with winning a fight like that at that point in my life, I probably would have crashed a few cars, or been doing all kinds of bad things. My life probably would have been way more out of control.
“Joanna [Jedrzejczyk] probably would have whipped my ass.”
Rose Namajunas had a troubled past before getting everything together and becoming the UFC strawweight champion. She didn't want to go into too much detail but admitted she used to be very wild.
“Without getting into too much detail, I’ve been a partier since I was really young. I don’t do that no more,” the UFC champion said.
“It just got really dangerous. I had a few different wake-up calls. You get out of a situation and you go, ‘Wow, I could have died, or somebody else could have died,’ or really bad stuff.
“Not everybody’s fortunate enough to have that moment of clarity to be like, ‘OK, I need to stop messing around here, because not only is my life in danger but other people’s as well.’
“Since I was 13 years old, I was drinking and doing all kinds of stuff, and I stopped, I want to say the last time I had a hard drink was my last amateur fight, and then I got super wasted and I woke up the next morning and there kind of, I was like, I was fighting. I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I could have really gotten hurt. I’ve gotta stop doing this,’” the UFC champion concluded.
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