Ronda, a big congratulations.
A victory at Royal Rumble
against Sasha Banks.
First off, I just wanna know what's
going through your mind right now after
such a huge win?
>> Man, a million things.
That's part of the reason why I
don't like post-fight interviews.
There's too many things going
through your head to pick one.
I was really looking
forward to tonight cuz
I was looking forward to seeing what
Sasha Banks could bring out of me, and
she really pushed me to another
level which I really appreciate.
But I try to be as respectful
as possible in the end,
and I'm not sure if
the feelings are mutual.
She's a mixed signals kind of a girl.
>> Over the course of the past week,
people have been following Sasha,
really tuning in on her training and
how she was preparing for
her match against you tonight.
And something she was specifically
preparing for was the arm bar, and
that wasn't what she got tonight,
this was your first pin fall victory.
So was this a strategy that you
had into tonight's match with or
something that you would plan on or
just something that happened?
>> This was actually something that my mom
trained me for ever since I was a little
kid, and when I first starting Judo,
I had pinned everybody.
And then when I got to the point
where I started doing arm bars,
I was arm barring everyone.
And then people became so
aware of the arm bar, and so
overly defensive of it that I actually
stopped getting people with it.
But I started getting more pins and my mom
was pretty much telling me that, listen,
if you get people really
focusing on one thing,
they'll start to ease up on other things.
So if you become great at arm bars,
as soon as everyone catches on,
it's gonna be more difficult
to do arm bars but
everything else will seem a lot easier and
more open to you.
So I think one of those
instances where I made her so
overly aware of the arm bar that she
left some other openings for me.
>> Now you talk about you wanted to show
Sasha as much respect as you possibly
could.
Not sure if those feelings are mutual,
but leading up to this match,
it was something you were very vocal
about, the fact that you had so
much admiration for Sasha Banks.
So now that you've had the opportunity
to face her one-on-one for
the first time ever, what are your
overall thoughts of here as an opponent?
>> As an opponent, she's amazing.
She's the best of the best, and
push me into another level and
really made me think outside of
the box and as a competitor I
have all the respect in the world for her.
I think it's just the Four Horsewomen is
the only real point of contention for me.
Me and my friends, and
the Four Horsemen for reaching the WWE,
it wasn't a gimmick or
marketing ploy or something to make us
all more popular because we're aligned.
It was like this is real,
and it's personal,
this is our lives and
they're taking something that's near and
dear to our hearts and
just trying to package it and
sell it to the masses,
I mean we do really like each other.
I don't know, it's something so personal
and near and dear to me and my friends.
It just seems like if they held
the up with the same guard that we
do I would have respect for that.
But to them,
this is nothing but marketing.
They don't have that bond that we have,
it's just for
show and this isn't for
show this is for life for us.
Respect isn't really being given to
me openly from many of the women, but
I feel like that's just an invitation for
me to take them from them.
So I love a good challenge, they do too,
so let's do the damn thing.
>> Awesome, congratulations, Ronda.
>> Thank you [LAUGH].
