Ronda Rousey, the 28-year-old bantam weight 12 time winning champion. She’s beaten her opponents in less than a minute, ripped arms off, and fought through the pain of many broken bones.
She’s won awards for the best female athlete and the best fighter at the 2015 ESPY awards. In order to win the award for best fight, she has to beat out #1 male boxer Floyd Mayweather.
Not only is she a superstar, she is on her way to becoming one of the most legendary fighters who ever lived.
Since the beginning of her MMA career, Ronda has proven time and time again that she’s easily one of the toughest humans that have ever walked the planet. The reason I say “human" is because this means both male and female.
She’s a game changer. There was once a point where UFC President Dana White couldn’t even stand the thought of females fighting inside the Octagon.
“No athlete is the best in their sport by a wider margin than Rousey. Her two wins in the past year have lasted an average of 15 seconds. The UFC made her its first female fighter ever. In her five UFC fights, only one opponent has made it out of the first round without getting knocked out of submission. She's not just undefeated; she's effectively untouched”
Ronda Rousey’s world record breaking shortest knock out was 16 seconds. Her win’s are described as “explosive, crazy, fun, fast and unbelievable…”
Until Ronda Rousey, UFC didn’t have a women’s division. Back then, the place women fought was an organization called Strikeforce where rivalries “Cyborg” and Miesha Tate fought. At the time, Rousey had an amateur record of 3-0, all of her wins under 2 minutes total. She was then given the chance to take on bantamweight title holder Miesha Tate, where Ronda stripped her of her title. There began one of the biggest rivalries in fighting history.
Ronda inspires us to start looking at the inner passion of a human being. She defies what it means to be disciplined and we’ve fallen in love with her aspiration inside and outside the Octagon.
“I cry all the time! It’s because you have so much passion. I think I cried for every single judo practice that I was in from 2003 to 2005. Every. Single. Night. Not because something hurt, but because I wanted to be better than I was and it frustrated me. I would be training with a guy that was 60 pounds heavier than me and had five more years of experience, and if I couldn’t throw him — even though I had no reasonable reason to expect myself to, I would still be so upset that I would cry.”
No longer do we look to the most powerful, rich, human to be our hero. We look for the most passionate and zeal humans. Ones with the most determination and heart. Ronda Rousey is an emblem for hope. She teaches us to stand up when something is wrong.
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