{"id":398762,"date":"2021-11-05T05:14:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T12:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=398762"},"modified":"2021-11-05T05:14:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T12:14:19","slug":"rose-namajunas-reveals-her-ultimate-life-purpose-plans-for-ufc-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/rose-namajunas-reveals-her-ultimate-life-purpose-plans-for-ufc-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Rose Namajunas reveals her \u201cultimate life purpose\u201d, plans for UFC retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC star Rose Namajunas has revealed that her ultimate life purpose, beyond mixed martial arts, is to become a farmer.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend at UFC 268, Rose Namajunas will attempt to cement her position as the best strawweight in the world when she defends her UFC title against Zhang Weili. It comes just months after Namajunas knocked Weili out with a head kick, winning the belt in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, while she&#8217;s still focused on her fighting career, the champion has also spoken about what she wants to do in the future.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;I&#039;m going to punch her and choke her out!&quot; Rose Namajuas on inspiring others and gardening.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wSvB68w7UIk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>\u201c<\/i>The more I\u2019ve learnt about myself, I\u2019ve realised that\u2019s just who I am [gardening]. That is my ultimate life purpose,\u201d Namajunas said. \u201cObviously I\u2019m a martial artist and that\u2019s primarily what I do most of the time, but I\u2019m working towards becoming a farmer. I\u2019ve been saying it since I was in kindergarten and they asked us what we wanna be when we grow up. It\u2019s just ingrained in me. I\u2019ve always had a love for nature and animals, and I think it\u2019s always been there. I\u2019m doing it more and more as I become older.<i>\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Quotes via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportskeeda.com\/mma\/news-ufc-news-rose-namajunas-says-working-towards-ultimate-life-purpose-becoming-farmer?key4=skmmafb&amp;utm_source=FBAUTOFEED&amp;utm_medium=SKMMAFB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sportskeeda<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>Do you think <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/rose-namajunas-stands-by-communism-comments-aimed-at-weili-zhang-can-we-really-even-know-what-she-really-believes\/\">Rose Namajunas<\/a> will be able to retain the belt this weekend? Let us know your thoughts in the comments, BJPENN Nation!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC star Rose Namajunas has revealed that her ultimate life purpose, beyond mixed martial arts, is to become a farmer. This weekend at UFC 268, Rose Namajunas will attempt to cement her position as the best strawweight in the world when she defends her UFC title against Zhang Weili. It comes just months after Namajunas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54478,"featured_media":396490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10651,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rose Namajunas reveals her \u201cultimate life purpose\u201d, plans for UFC retirement | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC star Rose Namajunas has revealed that her ultimate life purpose, beyond mixed martial arts, is to become a farmer.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/rose-namajunas-reveals-her-ultimate-life-purpose-plans-for-ufc-retirement\/\" 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