The first American woman to win a bronze Olympic medal in Judo is Ronda Rousey. She is the former UFC Women’s Bantam Weight Champion and the Strikeforce Women Bantam Weight Champion. In 2015, she became most searched personality on Google. As of January 2017, according to the UFC, she is ranked 4th female bantamweight fighter in the world, and 9th by Sherdog. Furthermore, she was the most “dominant” full of life athlete. In September 2015, in an online ESPN poll voters selected Rousey as the Finest Female Athlete Ever. Also, she was claimed to be the UFC’s highest paid fighter female.
At the age of 11 years, Rousey started to learn judo from her mother. Her mother, once world judo champion, introduced her to the game as constructive ways to channel her energy. She was qualified for Olympic Games in 2004; she was the youngest judoka in the entire Games. Her first gold medal win was at the World Junior Judo Championships in Hungary. She won A-Level tournament and Junior World Championships consequently becoming the first U.S. athlete ever to win two Junior World medals. Then, she made her mixed martial arts debut as an amateur and defeated Hayden Munoz. In the Tuff-N-Uff tournament semi-finals, she won the fight over Taylor Stratford. At Strikeforce Challengers 20, she faced Julia Budd and won via submission. She signed Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and made her debut over Liz Carmouche. It was followed by UFC 168, she faced undefeated fighter, Sara McMann. She won the fight by TKO.
fight by TKO. In 2014, Rousey was named one of espnW’s Impact 25.Rousey faced her first loss in the entire career in the match up against Holly Holm. It was her seventh title defense match. After the fight, both were awarded a Fight of the Night amount of $50,000.
Rousey was ranked 29 on the Maxim Hot 100. She had her initial role in a major motion picture, The Expandable 3. She acted in the Fast and Furious 7 too. It was followed by next movie Entourage. In 2015, Rousey became the 1st woman to be featured on the cover of Australian Men’s Fitness. She will be working on a number of good projects, an adaptation of her autobiography My Fight/Your Fight at Paramount, The Athena Project and action drama Road House. Road House is supposed to mark her foremost acting job to date. She is honored with awards, Best Fighter ESPY Award, Best Female Athlete ESPY Award and World MMA Female Fighter of the Year.
Rousey was born on February 1, 1987, on Riverside California. She is currently in her age of 29 years old. She was born to parents Ron Rousey and AnnMaria De Mars. She had a small family. As of Rousey personal relationship, she is dating boyfriend Travis Browne. Once he was a husband and was a married man when they had affairs. Well, they are happy with eachother .According to Celebrity net worth 2016, Rousey’s net worth is $9 million. She had many endorsements include Reebok, Metro PCS, Monster headphones and Carl’s Jr. To know more refer to her wiki, bio in the internet.