#93 - Rose Namajunas

One of the most honest conversations we have had on Thanalysis Show, Thanasis Antetokounmpo sits down with Milwaukee’s own UFC legend and two-time Straw-weight Champion, Rose "Thug Rose" Namajunas. Rose Namajunas opens up about everything, from her family coming to Milwaukee as Lithuanian refugees after the Soviet Union collapsed, growing up on the north side as the "only little white girl on the block", and how that upbringing built the toughness that made her a two-time UFC champion. Gruber Law Office's Thanalysis is also presented by Potawatomi Casino Hotel and McDonald's.  She breaks down the exact affirmations she used to beat Joanna Jedrzejczyk, "Confidence, Conditioning, Composure, Content. I'm the champion", and the moment she started saying the Lord's Prayer in Joanna's face during their final face-off. Plus she reveals her formula for winning: punch them in the face, take their back, choke them out. Rose also gets into fighting through a broken nose in the third round, having eye surgery after her last fight, moving up from strawweight to flyweight at 33 to chase a second belt, and what she feels the moment she walks out of the cage.