Ronda Rousey

## MMA career

After defeat to Tate, Rousey was handed a 6-month suspension meaning she cannot fight until May 15, 2016 and there must be no contact training for 60 days (January 14, 2016). Rousey attended post-match conference and congratulated Tate

## Other ventures

Rousey appeared nude on the cover of *ESPN The Magazine*'s 2012 *Body Issue* and in a pictorial therein. In May 2013, Rousey was ranked 29 on the *Maxim Hot 100*. She also appeared on the cover and in a pictorial of the September 2013 issue.
Rousey (center, middle row) alongside other actors at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival
Rousey co-starred in *The Expendables 3* (2014), marking her first role in a major motion picture. In 2015, she appeared in the film *Furious 7*, and played herself in the film *Entourage*.

In 2015, Rousey became the first woman featured on the cover of *Australian Men's Fitness*, appearing on their November edition.

In October 2015, Rousey became the first female athlete to guest host ESPN's *SportsCenter*.

Rousey was on the cover of the January 2016 issue for *The Ring* magazine. She became the first mixed martial artist to ever appear on the cover of the boxing magazine and the second woman as well, after Cathy Davis in 1978. In February 2016 she appeared in body paint as one of three cover athletes on the cover of the *Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue*.

Rousey hosted the January 23, 2016, episode of the late-night variety show *Saturday Night Live*, with musical guest Selena Gomez.

Rousey appeared in the Season 2, Episode 20 episode of *Blindspot* playing the role of Devon Penberthy, a prison inmate serving time for transporting weapons across state lines.

A number of starring film roles have been developed for Rousey, including an adaptation of her autobiography *My Fight / Your Fight* at Paramount, *The Athena Project* at Warner Bros., the Peter Berg-directed action film *Mile 22*. Rousey was scheduled to star in a remake of the 1989 Patrick Swayze action drama *Road House*. *Road House* would have marked her biggest acting job to date. According to *Variety*, Rousey reached out to Swayze's widow, Lisa Niemi, to ask for her blessing, which Niemi gave. However, the *Road House* project was cancelled in 2016.

On July 9, 2018, Rousey was confirmed as one of the two pre-order bonus characters for the video game *WWE 2K19* (the other being wrestling veteran Rey Mysterio). She previously appeared in *EA Sports UFC*, *EA Sports UFC 2* and *EA Sports UFC 3*. She later appeared in *WWE 2K20*, *WWE 2K Battlegrounds* and *WWE 2K22* as a downloadable character. Rousey has also appeared in the *EA Sports UFC*, *WWE SuperCard*, *WWE Champions* and *WWE Mayhem* mobile games as a playable character.

On January 17, 2019, it was confirmed that Rousey would be voicing Sonya Blade in the video game *Mortal Kombat 11*.

On August 18, 2019, it was revealed that Rousey is appearing as a recurring character Lena Bosko in the third season of FOX's *9-1-1* series. During her first day of shooting, she injured two fingers after her left hand was jammed in a boat door. The tip of her ring finger was fractured while her middle finger was broken with the tendon nearly severed. Rousey was rushed to the hospital, where her middle finger was mended with a metal plate and screws.

On February 18, 2020, Rousey announced her first stream on Facebook Gaming and donated all stream profits to charity.

In January 2022, Rousey was among the top 20 richest MMA fighters with US$12 million net worth. She was the only woman in the top 20.

Rousey is notable for introducing trash talking to women's MMA. In many interviews Rousey has used harsh language and openly downplayed the abilities of her opponents, which she explains as a way to generate more publicity for the sport. She was criticized for her "horrible sportsmanship" and never respected her opponents. When she beat Miesha Tate, she was still sore!! Imagine winning a fight and being offered a handshake and rejecting it

No, people could see Ronda was psychotic. Laughing one minute, crying the next, threatening people, crying then laughing maniacally all within a minute. Then pre-emptively said before it aired, they were gonna edit it to make her look batshit insane. Like after filming she suddenly had the self-awareness to finally realise she's overly emotional and tried to blame other people (again) for her erratic behaviour.

## Personal life

As of 2017, Rousey lives in Venice, California.
Rousey became a vegan after Beijing 2008, but in 2012 described her diet as "kind of a mix between a Paleo and a Warrior diet", trying to eat everything.

Rousey has discussed how she struggled with her body image in the past. She explained;

> "When I was in school, martial arts made you a dork, and I became self-conscious that I was too masculine. I was a 16-year-old girl with ringworm and cauliflower ears. People made fun of my arms and called me 'Miss Man'. It wasn't until I got older that I realized: these people are idiots. I'm fabulous."
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Rousey is an avid fan of *Dragon Ball Z* and *Pokémon*. Her favorite Pokémon is Mew. As a child, she wanted to be Android 18 and developed a crush for Vegeta. Christopher Sabat, the English voice actor of Vegeta, jokingly replied in an interview, "She has seen my power level for what it is… She also scares me." She also plays *World of Warcraft*, primarily as a night elf hunter.

In 2015, she raised money by auctioning signed T-shirts for the Black Jaguar-White Tiger Foundation, whose goal is to save big cats from circuses and zoos and provide them with the best lifestyle.

In April 2015, Rousey visited Yerevan, Armenia for the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. While in Yerevan, she visited the Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide memorial.

Rousey endorsed Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign in the 2016 United States presidential election.

In February 2016, in an interview with Ellen DeGeneres, Rousey admitted that suicidal thoughts went through her mind in the aftermath of her knockout loss to Holly Holm in November 2015.

### **Relationships**

Rousey once dated fellow UFC fighter Brendan Schaub. In August 2015, Rousey was rumored to be in a relationship with UFC fighter Travis Browne, who knocked out Schaub in a bout the previous year, after a picture of the two together appeared on Twitter and Browne's estranged wife Jenna Renee Webb accused the two of seeing one another. Browne was at the time still married and under investigation by the UFC after Webb publicly accused him of domestic violence in July 2015. Browne confirmed he and Rousey were together in October 2015. The next day, Rousey revealed that she was dating Browne. Rousey and Browne got engaged on April 20, 2017, in New Zealand and married on August 28, 2017, in Browne's home state of Hawaii. On April 21, 2021, Rousey announced on her official YouTube channel that she was four months pregnant with her first child. On September 27, 2021, Rousey gave birth to a girl named La’akea Makalapuaokalanipō Browne.

In her autobiography, *My Fight, Your Fight*, Rousey wrote of an incident with a former boyfriend she dubbed "Snappers McCreepy" after she discovered that he had taken nude photos of her without her consent or knowledge, two weeks before her first fight with Miesha Tate. When a seething Rousey met him, she "slapped him across the face so hard [her] hand hurt." According to Rousey, he then refused to let her leave as he was trying to explain, so she attacked his face with two punches, one more slap, one knee, then "tossed him aside on the kitchen floor." She went to her car and he followed, grabbing the steering wheel, so she "dragged him out onto the sidewalk, and left him writhing there". Rousey deleted the photos and erased his hard drive, however, fear that the pictures may still be out there influenced her to pose for *ESPN* magazine's *Body Issue* so that nude pictures of her would be seen on her own terms. Rousey faced some criticism because she had committed domestic abuse.

## Mixed martial arts record

 **By submission** | 18
 **By decision** | 0

(UFC 171 was headlined by Jon Jones vs Glover Teixeira, UFC 172 was headlined by Barão vs. Dillashaw, Vitor Belfort vs Chris Weidman headlined UFC 173)

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