Ronda Rousey

Ronda Jean Rousey ˈraʊzi ROWzee born February 1 1987 is an American professional wrestler actress and former judoka and mixed martial artist She is best known for her tenures in the Ultimate Fighting Championship UFC and WWE She was the first American woman to win an Olympic medal in judo by winning bronze at the 2008 Summer Olympics Lynn Roethke had previously won a silver medal in the 1988 Olympics However her medal was not counted toward the US medal count because Womens Judo was a demonstration sport Rousey began her mixed martial arts MMA career with King of the Cage in 2011 She soon joined Strikeforce becoming their last Womens Bantamweight Champion holding the championship until the UFC acquired Strikeforce Rousey was part of the UFCs first female fight at UFC 157 was their inaugural Womens Bantamweight Champion and held the record for most UFC title defences 6 by a female until being surpassed by Valentina Shevchenko in 2022 Rousey retired from MMA in 2016 and was the first female fighter inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame in 2018 Rousey began a career in professional wrestling in 2018 signing with WWE and debuted at WrestleMania 34 She won the Raw Womens Championship at that years SummerSlam She headlined WWEs first and only all womens payperview Evolution in which she defended the title Rousey lost the title in the first womens WrestleMania main event at WrestleMania 35 Rousey returned at the 2022 Royal Rumble winning the womens Royal Rumble match That year she would win the SmackDown Womens Championship twice making her an overall threetime womens world champion in WWE She became the eighth Womens Triple Crown Champion when she won the WWE Womens Tag Team Championship with Shayna Baszler Rousey and Baszler also unified the WWE and NXT Womens Tag Team Championships After leaving WWE in October 2023 she began wrestling on the independent circuit Rousey is the only woman to become a champion in both the UFC and WWE as well as the only woman to headline a payperview event in both companies She was voted the best female athlete of all time in a 2015 ESPN fan poll and Fox Sports described her as one of the defining athletes of the 21st century Rousey has also appeared in films including The Expendables 3 2014 Furious 7 2015 and Mile 22 2018 and published her autobiography My Fight Your Fight in 2015 Description above from the Wikipedia article Ronda Rousey licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia