Strikeforce's Ronda Rousey Wants to be the New 'Face of Women's MMA'
by Tim Burke on Aug 12, 2011 4:02 PM EDT
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If you've never heard of Ronda Rousey before now, you're missing out. She has some seriously formidable credentials and is making her Strikeforce debut tonight at Strikeforce Challengers 18 when she takes on Sarah D'Alelio. Ronda made the US Olympic Judo team at 17 years old, and won a bronze medal four years later at the 2008 Beijing games. Since switching over to MMA, her stats are pretty incredible - 3 amateur fights, 3 submission wins in 23, 57, and 24 seconds respectively. She has two pro fights, and the stats sheet looks exactly the same - 2 fights, 2 submission wins in 25 and 49 seconds respectively. Impressed yet?
Rousey did an interview that was posted on Strikeforce's Youtube page and while she was straightforward about what she hopes to accomplish in her fight against D'Alelio, she's definitely aiming to be much more than just a Strikeforce Challengers fighter. Here's what she had to say:
"For this fight my goal is to go in and win. Make it look good, make it look entertaining, and look good while I'm at it. I wanna, you know, try and bring a lot more attention to women's MMA and what I really think we need right now is, you know, a face of the sport that people actually wanna look at. So I'm gonna try my best to be that person."
Here's the interview. We'll find out what she has in the cage tonight, and you can assess for yourself whether you believe she can achieve her aspirations to become the new face of WMMA.
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my thoughts exactly
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by BoulderDodger on Aug 12, 2011 4:23 PM EDT up reply actions
I’m trying to work up the energy to be self-righteous and offended, and to say something about respecting her for her skills rather than her smokin’ hot body… but it’s Friday and it’s just not happening.
by Damnatio Memoriae on Aug 12, 2011 4:27 PM EDT up reply actions 4 recs
Why
When Ronda herself says “Make it look good, make it look entertaining, and look good while I’m at it. I wanna, you know, try and bring a lot more attention to women’s MMA and what I really think we need right now is, you know, a face of the sport that people actually wanna look at. So I’m gonna try my best to be that person.”
What’s not to love…
Time for a pure hottie division…Ronda, Miesha, Gina…
"Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid." -John Wayne
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by The American Ronin on Aug 12, 2011 4:31 PM EDT up reply actions
michelle waterson ,felice herrig, keria gracie and kerry vera,
Yes !!! Yes it is.
The ugly girls can go back to the wnba where they belong. Lol I keed I keed.
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by the-gentle-way on Aug 12, 2011 6:08 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Look
I am a happily married hetero man, but I’d rather look at GSP than Big Country. Our eyes like stuff. I like looking at sexy women and i like looking at fit men. However, if Gina Carano gets her taut ass handed to her by beefy Cyborg (I find her kind of “yikes” ) I can appreciate that on another level. If Big Country triumphs as an underdog in a match, I like that took. (Although I doubt I will get get too excited about Cole Konrad
WMMA is not developed to the point where we can have a wide range of viewing choices when it comes to women fighting. It DOES need a GSP,, an Iceman, a Tito Ortiz to push it through. Right now they have a lot of “faces” and they have a few with great skills. They don’t have enough who possess both. When it has enough of a population of elite, marketable fighters, then we can start appreciating skills and narratives and underdogs.
That being said, I don’t think I want the female equivalent of Roy Nelson out there…
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
Mohandas Gandhi
"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."
Muhammad Ali
"If MMA is like dog fighting, those are some pretty fucking smart dogs."
"I don’t want to lick any butt."
GSP
She's alright, but she isn't OHMYGOD! hot.
"I'm a little worried about being a slut"
~ Bobby Hill
Being a fighter raises a woman’s level to some. I would liken it to an attractive athlete in that a woman can be attractive, but is elevated because she is an athlete.
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yes she is omg hot.
I can’t play with barbies they break too easy. She is my cup of tea.
"Many have the will to win. Few have to will to prepare to win."
" A black belt only covers 2 inches of your ass. The rest is up to you." - Royce Gracie
"Wanderlei eventually got to his feet and stalked Fujita like a Japanese octopus in an all-female prison." - Sean Baby Cracked.com
by the-gentle-way on Aug 12, 2011 6:10 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
I wouldn’t last a minute with her either.
by sexysassytravismmafan on Aug 12, 2011 4:33 PM EDT reply actions 13 recs
Your not
about to write a bizarre fanpost about Jake Shields, are you?
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by The American Ronin on Aug 12, 2011 4:56 PM EDT up reply actions
Why not?
The Reccing Machine is about to fall of the recommended FanPosts and we’re gonna need another field of green
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by RolloTomasi on Aug 12, 2011 10:13 PM EDT up reply actions
Came here to make the same joke
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by Anthony Pace on Aug 12, 2011 4:58 PM EDT up reply actions
Apparently he's quicker than you
If that wasn’t obvious already.
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by Tim Burke on Aug 12, 2011 5:00 PM EDT up reply actions 8 recs
/sips glass of Minute Maid OJ
"Kickboxing is great. It combines the style and grace of boxing with... kicking." -- Norm MacDonald
by Anthony Pace on Aug 12, 2011 5:03 PM EDT up reply actions
(Clickable)
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I have to admit, I’m intrigued. Mostly because of her resume and series of quick wins, but also she has good looks and seems pretty smart and focused in those interviews.
I found one of her fights: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl_I04NBibw
I can't remember, is she with Hayastan?
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She is
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^ This man has been on Ronda Rousey for some time.
True story.
by Brent Ducharme on Aug 12, 2011 7:10 PM EDT up reply actions
Damn right
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Might I suggest adding this one also?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YjmO3xMBec&hd=1
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Right now? Cyborg
A year or two from now with improved striking and some much needed in cage experience? Rousey
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She probably won’t get the chance to improve her striking and a year or 2 of cagetime. The 145lb division is paper thin, Cyborg needs opponents and Rousey has already stated she wants to fight her by the end of the year. In that case I see three different outcomes.
1. Rousey does her thing and submits Cyborg and becomes the new queen of women’s MMA.
2. Rousey takes a world class Beatdown and uses the experience to make her a better fighter.
3. Rousey takes a world class Beatdown in a fight she wasn’t ready for and it completely ruins her as a fighter.
by jdark on Aug 12, 2011 5:42 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
A thin weight division doesn’t necessarily equate to pushing a fighter too high, too soon. I mean, there are exceptions, but if it can be avoided, then why not avoid it? They can give Cyborg someone like Amanda Nunes first, and maybe even Julia Budd. By that time, Rousey will have more fights under her belt and more experience, plus more exposure to the audience.
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Amanda Nunes said that she wants to fight at 135 to get more experience and gain more weight and muscle. The problem is that it’s complete BS. You cut down to 135 to put on more weight and muscle to fight someone at 145?LOL! She has no intention of fighting Cyborg and Julia Budd would be a squash match. If Ronda keeps winnIng she will fight Cyborg by early next year.SF has no real options.
by jdark on Aug 12, 2011 6:28 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
I think that if Rousey wins, then she should fight Julia Budd next. If not, then give Rousey some cage time and have her fight someone else. Fighting Cyborg for five rounds would be way too much for her right now or anytime soon.
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Cyborg, against anyone, anytime, any place.
She’s a monster!
"I'm a little worried about being a slut"
~ Bobby Hill
She's been submitted before.
And she’s never fought an Olymic level Judo player before.
Learn JiuJitsu.
Always looking for that new danger.
I'm all in...
Might I add CLAWD HAVE MERCY
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by LRaunThaDamaja on Aug 12, 2011 5:01 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
HEY!
I was just joking around with Ronin, I think it was Ronin…
I found a good troll face and everything :(
Anderson Silva, Edson Barboza, Jose Aldo, Charles Oliveira, Thiago Alves = Muay Thai wrecking machines!
by SentientAndroid on Aug 12, 2011 5:18 PM EDT reply actions
Guess I should have read down before replying…now I feel…something, idk what…
Carry on…
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by The American Ronin on Aug 12, 2011 11:30 PM EDT up reply actions
I knew it was going to get taken down...
But I thought that rising stock joke was quality.
"Kickboxing is great. It combines the style and grace of boxing with... kicking." -- Norm MacDonald
haha if you couldn’t tell, my list of hottest mma fighters were: GSP, Huerta, Pettis and…WANDERLEI SILVA lol
Anderson Silva, Edson Barboza, Jose Aldo, Charles Oliveira, Thiago Alves = Muay Thai wrecking machines!
by SentientAndroid on Aug 12, 2011 5:19 PM EDT up reply actions
Im on board.
Either figuratively or literally.
For the record ...
… I’ve been touting Rousey as a future MMA prospect since before the Olympics. Here’s proof: http://www.usatoday.com/sports/mma/2008-06-11-rousey-mma_N.htm
(It helped that she kept winning her fights by armbar. Check this story – also from USAT but not by me: http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/summer/2004-05-05-judo-family-rousey_x.htm)
by Beau Dure on Aug 12, 2011 5:38 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Beau Dure
Look at me! LOOK AT ME!!!
:p
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by Chris Hall on Aug 12, 2011 5:42 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I'm not here to judge
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Most of the time I am a rather quiet fellow, who likes to read about Philosophy, Mathematics and History, but like most people I also have a deep appreciation of sex and violence... - John Danaher
Holy crap, I didn’t know her mom was a judoka too, or the stuff about the injuries piling up. This is really good stuff man, thanks for adding it.
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Her moms blog is pretty damn awesome too
http://drannmaria.blogspot.com/
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fire the cameraman
and wardrobe consultant… skin 2 win
She looks like a mix between
Anne Judson-Yager and Julia Stiles. She looks like she could be either of there sisters for sure.
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When she was younger (judo days) she REALLY looked like Julia Stiles.
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Do you know who Anne Judson-Yager is?
She looks a lot like her to..
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god ...i love girl fighters.
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by the-gentle-way on Aug 12, 2011 6:04 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Kyra, Ronda, Gina and Miesha.
Wooooo
I’m going with Ronda and an in shape Gina.
"The one who doesn't fall, does not stand up" - Fedor Emelianenko.
Rousey can be the face, but Miesa Tate will always be the body of women’s MMA.
"He's like Elvis in Korea! They love him there." - Mike Goldberg on Denis Kang
by Bolshevik on Aug 13, 2011 6:02 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
I’m a bit ambivalent about using good looking women to tout WMMA. If it brings more eyes – men’s and women’s – to the sport and gains more exposure in mainstream sports media, that’s good for the sport overall. But if it creates the expectation that a viewer is going to see hot women who coincidentally know how to scrap, I’m not so sure that’s a good thing. Building up the more attractive women as the “faces” of MMA might tend to set up the “hot vs. not” type of matchups where the less appealing woman is inevitably going to be the musclebound thug who casuals are supposed to root against. It starts to sound like a pro wrestling premise.
.....
Stylin' in my Speedos® and darin' you to stare.
by Scabby Knuckle on Aug 13, 2011 11:27 AM EDT reply actions
She Already Is
Good looking
smart
experienced in martial skills
seasoned on the big stage
all this lady needs is expanding her skill set a little
and
she will setting the pace for a decade in WMMA
Once she has 8-10 wins behind her
including wiping the mat with the incredibly over-rated Carano
a bout with Santos will break all WMMA records (if there are any)
Aw I forgot This One
and if RR runs thru what few Americans that SF can deliver up to her
then import
Hiroko Yamanaka
from Japan for the last send up to Santos
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