White: Rousey felt the media 'turned on her when she lost'

According to Dana White, being the UFC's most famous fighter isn't everything it's chalked up to be.

The UFC president was on FOX Sports Live on Wednesday and he dished out some armchair psychology on Ronda Rousey, the promotion's soon-to-be-returning megastar. Rousey has not competed since a devastating loss to Holly Holm last November, and White posited that the media played a major role in her reluctance to come back.

"Her biggest issues, in my opinion, were with the media," said White. "She just felt like the media completely turned on her when she lost."

When asked if he thought Rousey was "abandoned" by the media, White emphasized how much time Rousey sacrificed for interviews while also juggling an elite fighting career and a budding presence in Hollywood. He thinks the same coverage that made her a mainstream sensation also contributed to her downfall.

"Not abandoned, but she felt attacked and she felt like these people in the media that she gave three years of her life cruising around giving interviews to completely turned on her when she lost," White said. "Listen, I've been doing this for 16 years and I've had my moments with the media. The media can irritate you and if you go through something traumatic like she did in losing and everything else, and you have to listen to some of the things that are being written and said - I get it."

Rousey can again expect to face extraordinary amounts of scrutiny in the lead-up to UFC 207 on Dec. 30 in Las Vegas, where she challenges Amanda Nunes for the women's bantamweight title.