It’s had lasting effects.
UFC strawweight champion Rose Namajunas is traumatised by the bus attack in Brooklyn by Conor McGregor, and according to her coach, she “doesn’t leave her house”.
Speaking on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show on Tuesday, Trevor Wittman, head trainer at Grudge Training Center in Colorado, said that Namajunas still “doesn’t leave her house”. While she does go to the gym, she “will go out and do a hike where there are no people”.
Wittman also said on the show that Namajunas is from an abusive background.
Namajunas was on the same show in June and echoed the same thoughts of her coach, saying she’s still not over it.
“When we got back home, we stayed upstairs, locked in our room because we were just paranoid about how crazy the week was. It was really tough,” she said.
“I’m still trying not to leave the house too much or there will be times when I’m just like, ‘Yeah we should just go home,’ like I just have a weird feeling.
“I live in a very nice neighborhood, there’s nothing that really goes on around here. So, for me to be like sketch… I’m still paranoid about everything,” she said. “I have a therapist that I go see.”
McGregor reached out to her via Instagram after the incident to apologise but Namajunas brushed it off and stated that she was unsure if it was genuine, or if it was really even him at the other end of the message.
“I don’t really know if that was really him,” Namajunas said. “To me, that doesn’t seem like the type of… it just didn’t seem like a sincere apology from an actual person.
“To me, I didn’t really consider it a real apology.”
To make matters worse, in a bid to hype McGregor’s fight with Khabib Nurmagomedov, the UFC has been using footage from the bus attack in promos, which Wittman said is “in poor taste”.
McGregor takes on Nurmagomedov for the UFC lightweight title at UFC 229 on 6 October.
