‘It was like an eternity being in that bus’ Rose Namajunas shared details of mental trauma from Conor McGregor’s bus attack

‘It was like an eternity being in that bus’ Rose Namajunas shared details of mental trauma from Conor McGregor’s bus attack
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Ahead of UFC 223, the former two-division champion Conor McGregor launched an attack on the bus carrying Khabib Nurmagomedov and many other UFC fighters. The attack was launched by Conor and his teammates in an attempt to get Khabib. ‘Notorious’ was also sentenced to prison for this attack but due to this the biggest fight in UFC took place.

Apart from Khabib, there were many other fighters on the bus. Some of them even faced physical damage; Michael Chiesa has to pull out from the fight against Anthony Pettis as he suffered a cut on his head from the broken glass. Ray Borg also pulled out from the fight against Brandon Moreno as shreds of broken glass got into his eyes.

Rose Namajunas was also one of the fighters who were on the bus at that time; although she didn’t suffer any physical damage but she suffered mental trauma from this attack. In her latest interview, Thug Rose says, “It was like an eternity being in that bus because I had no idea who that was that was attacking us”

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“All of a sudden I see a big ol’ fist kind of bang on my window and then I see one of the security guards grab one of the dudes. I didn’t know it was Conor until a little bit later. When he threw the dolly, the bus was backing up into the elevator spot as he threw it to the window right in front of me. But had the bus not been moving, it would have hit my window.”

Rose Namajunas related this scene with similar incidents that haunted her upbringing

Conor McGregor attacking the bus

Rose Namajunas felt some sense of relief after finding out that Conor is attacking the bus rather than any random guys attacking the bus. But still, this affected her, Rose says, “In my head, once I found out it was Conor, I was a little relieved, but I still was on edge”

“It just took me back to when I was a kid, riding to school through bad neighborhoods on a bus and people throwing sh*t at our bus. And I’ve never been completely cornered like that. We were just sitting there not in control. So what did I do in that moment?”

“I said the Lord’s prayer again and then it did make me feel a little bit better at that moment, and it got me through that tough moment.” After the incident, Namajunas still decided to compete at UFC 223 but that too wasn’t easy for her.

Namajunas further says, “Arriving to the arena itself was hard, Super hard. Because I was super stressed out from the incident on the bus and going back to the same arena with the same elevator and then the noises of the bus kind of took me back to two days earlier. I was super shell shocked from that. Super tense.”

Although Namajunas won the fight against Joana Jedrzejzyk at UFC 223 by unanimous decision of the judges but whatever Conor did still have an impact on her.

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