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Former WWE Raw Women’s Champion, Ronda Rousey recently spoke with Megan Olivi of UFC.com about her time in both MMA and professional wrestling.

Within the interview Rousey spoke in detail about the differences between professional wrestling and MMA, discussing the schedule.

“It’s physical in a different way, the stress from fighting is much, much more,” Rousey said. “The training camp, the weeks leading up to it, the press, and going to sleep every night thinking about it. That’s the real wear and tear, not so much the physical part of it. With fights, you assume, ‘Okay, I’ll give myself at least a month to recover after that.’ It’s a peaking system, you allow yourself to peak and crash. With WWE it’s just a grind and it’s non-stop, I did the easy version, everybody else does 300 days a year. Their bodies don’t get to rest as much as ours in MMA, but their minds get to rest a lot more in MMA I feel like. There’s no pressure on anything.”

H/T to SportsKeeda.com for the transcriptions.