Ronda Rousey confirmed mercy as soon as. Then by no means once more.
Rousey exited the MMA recreation in 2016 after struggling back-to-back knockout losses towards Holly Holm and Amanda Nunes. Earlier than that, she was some of the thrilling points of interest the game had ever seen, scoring 12 straight wins together with 9 victories by the use of her signature maneuver, the armbar.
Wanting again at one among her earliest bouts on the Strikeforce Challengers collection, Rousey recalled a time when she held again from breaking somebody’s arm in a struggle and why she vowed to by no means provide that very same courtesy to any of her opponents once more.
“The 25-second struggle is after I fought Sarah D’Alelio,” Rousey stated in a brief on her YouTube channel. “In order we have been falling down she was screaming, ‘faucet, faucet, faucet,’ as a result of as quickly as I hit the bottom that lady’s elbow was going to exit. There was no manner I might management it so I let go of it. I held the place and I’m like, ‘The lady’s making an attempt to faucet.’ I informed the ref after which the ref referred to as it as a result of clearly it was a verbal submission and she or he goes, ‘However I didn’t faucet! I didn’t faucet!’
“The entire f*cking crowd is booing me and sh*t and I used to be like, ‘This b*tch. That’s it, I’m by no means gonna be good once more. I’m f*cking breaking the following b*tches arm.’”
Ronda Rousey stayed true to her phrase
4 months later, Rousey did precisely that. ‘Rowdy’ dislocated Julia Budd’s arm 39 seconds into their Strikeforce Challengers 20 scrap in November 2011.
Total, Ronda Rousey went 12-2 in her combined martial arts profession with a 100% end fee. Along with the assortment of arms she collected, ‘Rowdy’ additionally secured knockouts towards Sara McMann, Alexis Davis, and Bethe Correia.
Following her exit from the Octagon in 2017, Rousey parlayed her fame and athleticism right into a profitable profession in sports activities leisure, signing with the WWE in 2018. She would go on to win the RAW ladies’s championship and made historical past as one of many first ladies to headline WrestleMania.
After taking a couple of years away from the highlight, she returned to win the 2022 Royal Rumble and kickstart one other WWE run that may in the end come to an finish in October 2023.
