Ronda Rousey-USA Celebrity, Mixed Martial Artist, Judoka

Ronda Rousey is one of the right faces in feminine mixed martial arts. She was born on 1st February, 1987 in Riverside County at California, USA. Her nickname is "Rowdy" and she trains with Team Hayastan & Glendale Fighting Club. She wrestles for the UFC.


Ronda Rousey is the daughter of Ann Maria Rousey DeMars and her mother was the 1st American to win at the World Judo Championships, winning gold in the 1984 tournament in the 56 kg class, so as to said, her entrance into the world by her mother was quite complicated. She almost died from umbilical cord asphyxiation at birth, which actually left side effects. Within her first official blog entry linked to the Miesha Tate fight, Ronda Rousey indicated that she couldn’t "speak coherently," awaiting the age of 6 consequently.


In spite of the fact that things started out hard, Ronda Rousey demonstrated athleticism like a child, contending in swimming. Her father was reportedly her main cheerleader awaiting he died when she was only 8 years old. This led to her taking on her mother's sport, judo, instead of swimming. Then a star was born.

Training in Judo as a Youngster:

An interrogate by Chad Morrison at the Akari Judo Club points out that Ronda Rousey was helped by her mother early with judo, but yet kept her distance, at any rate to an extent, when it came to training.


She said that her mom constantly volunteered to take a backseat in her training. She taught her all she could however never insisted on being her head coach and she is glad her mother did because she really needed a Mom, somebody she could cry & complain to when schooling was over. People have to hate thier coach some days, that is their job, but she did not want to hate her mother.She started working with the Pedros when she was sixteen, they kicked her out and invited her back several times within 2003-2009 when she finally quit & left on her own. She has had dozens of coaches help her for shorter periods during her career, with the Cohens, Numerous trainers from Nanka and Isreal Hernandez who traveled with her and sat in her chair from 07-08, however she had the longest relationship by the Pedros. Ronda Rousey contributed in her first judo tournament at the age of eleven.

Never Say Die Attitude:

Ronda Rousey's mother surely worked to inspire a level of toughness in her daughter. The female MMA fighter has offered numerous stories relating to her mother's shove to have her fight through adversity and pain. She wrote that, she was 11 years old and she broke her big toe doing judo, to an eleven-year-old this is a huge deal, so she stopped fighting & started to cry. Her mother then made her run laps around the mat for the rest for the night. She thought her mother was just being cruel at the time but she told her that sometimes she has to fight when she is injured. She needed to know she is capable of that.

Judo Tournament Highlights or Olympic Medalist:

Ronda Rousey became the youngest judo player in the whole 2004 Olympic Games when she experienced for the team in 2004 at the age of seventeen. In that same year, she got home gold at the 2004 World Junior Judo Championships in Budapest at Hungary.


During April 2006, in England, Ronda Rousey won gold at the Birmingham World Cup. Then she became the 1st U.S. athlete to ever win 2 Junior World medals, getting home a bronze at the Junior World Championships.


During 2007, she won a silver medal in the 70 kg class at the 2007 World Judo Championships & a bronze at the 2007 Pan Am Games. The crowning success on her judo career came in the 2008 Olympic Games, where she won a bronze medal by defeating Annett Boehm by Yuko.

Early MMA Career or Taking the Strikeforce Bantamweight Title:

On 6th August, 2010, Ronda Rousey won her 1st amateur MMA bout at CFL- Ground Zero by 1st round armbar above Hayden Munoz and she accumulated a ideal amateur record of 3-0, by all wins coming by 1st round armbar, prior to making her professional debut on 27th March, 2011, against Ediene Gomez at a King of the Cage event. Then she won her debut through armbar after only 25 seconds had gone by in the 1st round.

After accumulating 2 more professional victories by 1st round armbar, Ronda Rousey took on Miesha Tate for the Strikeforce Woman's Bantamweight Championships. After lots of pre-fight chatter, the bout lastly went down at Strikeforce 39 on 3rd March, 2012. Although Tate fought tough, in the end she yielded to a very deep armbar in the 1st round. With the win Ronda Rousey became a winner.

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