Nobody can deny the affect on girls’s blended marital arts that Ronda Rousey had. The inaugural UFC girls’s bantamweight champion famously modified UFC CEO Dana White’s thoughts about girls competing within the sport’s greatest promotion paving the way in which for people who adopted.
She was a dominant champion who defended her title six consecutive instances. That file stood for seven years earlier than Valentina Shevchenko surpassed it with seven in 2022. Rousey gained mainstream celeb standing and stays one of many sports activities greatest stars having not fought in 9 years.
In a current interview, “Rowdy” referred to herself as ‘the best ever,’ and she or he’s doubled down on the declare.
“I mentioned the opposite day that I am the best ever, and man everybody flipped the f**ok out over it,” Rousey mentioned throughout an look on Bertcast. “I am like, how do you outline the best ever?
“I outline the best ever as the one that was essentially the most dominant and the farthest forward of their time, proper, as a result of you possibly can’t choose totally different eras in opposition to one another. You may’t choose LeBron [James] in opposition to Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan is the best ever I might say due to the impact that he had on tradition, of how far forward of his time he was, and the way dominant he was,” continued Rousey.
“And nobody can say that I have never been essentially the most dominant and essentially the most forward of my time and I will die on that hill. However a bunch of people who have by no means been in a combat of their lives will dedicate an excellent portion of their day arguing in any other case.”
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Rousey gained prominence in Judo, profitable worldwide competitions on the age 14. She gained the Bronze Medal on the 2008 Summer time Olympics changing into the primary American feminine to win an Olympic Medal in Judo. In 2010, she transitioned to blended martial arts and have become a family identify. She rose to superstardom within the UFC and later grew to become the feminine face of WWE.
She was the primary feminine champion in UFC historical past. She holds the file for the longest title combat end streak within the combat promotion’s historical past with six, together with the second quickest end in UFC title combat historical past. She was inducted into the UFC Corridor of Fame in 2018.
