Can Ronda Rousey kick your ass?
Dana White: “In the history of the world, there’s never been a situation where a woman could kick a man’s ass. Ever. Now there is. I’d take Ronda Rousey against anybody, man.”
UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey Rousey was born with her umbilical cord wrapped around her neck, didn’t speak in sentences until she was 6, lost her father to suicide when she was 8, and suffered from Bulimia as a teen.
She started combat sports at 12, and has been fighting ever since. It’s just what I was born to do, she said.
Now she graces the covers of men’s magazines, and odds are, can kick your ass.
The champion has detractors sputtering from every direction. Unsteady feminists sputter about her adroit use of sexuality to market her personal brand. Unsteady male chauvinists sputter that she couldn’t take them, or if not them, that she couldn’t take a thick, solid, tight male UFC fighter.
She’s changing the way we look at women, said UFC president Dana White, as transcribed by Washington Post‘s Rick Maese. And she’s changing the way women look at themselves, definitely little girls. When we were growing up, you were told, ‘You little girls play over here and boys play over here.’ Ronda Rousey smashes that whole thing.
The thing that’s scary is, Ronda’s still learning. Every time Ronda comes out, she looks better. She came in here as a judo fighter. Well, now she’s becoming a well-rounded fighter.
In the history of the world, there’s never been a situation where a woman could kick a man’s ass. Ever. Now there is. I’d take Ronda Rousey against anybody, man.
Ronda Rousey fights Cat Zingano ahead of her fight Saturday night, in the main event of UFC 184.
Will you be watching? And can she kick your ass?