In her three UFC fights, she has a split-decision win over Julie Kedzie, a unanimous-decision victory over Jessamyn Duke and a second-round TKO of Shayna Baszler.
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Rousey understood it as a means for Correia to fast-track her way to a title shot, which she received.
Rousey’s hands have become so good that her coach, Edmond Tarverdyan, said she has never lost a round against female boxers at the gym.
“When are we going to see, uh, women in the UFC, man?” was the question a TMZ reporter posed to UFC President Dana White in January of 2011.
UFC superstar Ronda Rousey is set to collide against Brazilian upstart Bethe Correia in UFC 190 this weekend. The other two lasted a combined 30 seconds. At minus-1700, Rousey is now running a bigger favorite than Chad Mendes (minus-1650) over Yaotzin Meza, and Ronaldo Souza (minus-1600) over Chris Camozzi.
“To be honest, my mom’s pissed and she doesn’t want me to do it”, Rousey said to Fox Sports.
To her credit, Bethe Correia is nothing if not confident.
The average buyrate of pay-per-views headlined by Rousey stands at 463,000 and her last fight posted 590,000 buys – numbers that mark her as a bigger draw than every male title holder in the UFC save for interim featherweight champion Conor McGregor and perhaps middleweight kingpin Chris Weidman. Or I call it a “DNB” a lot of the time”, she said, defining a DNB as “the kind of chick that just tries to be pretty and be taken care of by somebody else. And it wasn’t until her rematch with Tate in 2013 that she needed more than one round to put away any opponent. Ronda has nothing to prove to me.
“I just had this feeling driving home listening to that song that this is the beginning of a whole new era for me”, Rousey said.
Dominance alone isnt what makes Rousey such an anomaly, however, there’s also her tongue of unswept glass.
She says it might not be the quantity as much as the quality.
Still, that could serve as reason enough for Rousey to quickly end hers and Correia’s night likes she has 10 other fighters before. “And so, you know, I could still be going for the finish, just in a more thorough way”.
After her judo career ended with a bronze medal in the 2008 Olympics, Rousey turned to MMA. It is very different from her life of reality.
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Nogueira has suffered even more deterioration than his brother over the years which is saying something, though to be fair, despite being 12 years younger Struve has a questionable chin himself, not to mention his troubles with a heart condition not that so long ago. When she returned to civilization, she eliminated many extra interviews and public appearances – aside from her memorable trip to the ESPYs.
