Benjamin Franklin said famously that there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. The former Postmaster General of course did not live long enough to see Conor McGregor and Ronda Rousey. If he had, he would have known a third certainty – some MMA fans are so crazy, they get a tattoo of their favorite fighter.
Ronda Rousey – ‘Rowdy’ has a number of fans who went all the way.
A fan in South Africa got Rousey putting on her wraps tattooed on his leg.
This fan got Rousey’s autograph on her ankle.
Here are some arm autographs.
Benjamin met Ronda at a My Fight/Your Fight book signing in Las Vegas, and ‘Rowdy’ autographed his arm. So he walked straight to Vegas tattoo artist Robert Pho, and made it permanent.
And this one, well, we don’t know exactly what is going on here.
Rumor has it that Alan Belcher asked for a Ronda Tattoo, but the artist had not been plying his craft for long.
The Series
1. Ronda Rousey
2. Conor McGregor
3. Fedor Emelianeko
4. Kimbo Slice
5. Chuck Liddell
6. Jon Jones
7. The Rest
Rousey is a sex symbol, but she suffered from bulimia when she was younger, and fights body shaming.
“I swear to God, if anyone calls me fat one more time in my life, I’m going to kill them,” she said to the New York Times late last year.
“If I can represent that body type of women that isn’t represented so much in media, then I’d be happy to do that.”
“When women say that going on publications directed at men is somehow demeaning, I don’t think that’s true. I think that’s one really effective way to change the societal standard women are held to.”
Rousey once planned to lose weight for a TV commercial, “but because somebody said something really rude to me, I came into the shoot purposely way heavier.”
“The campaign ended up being amazing, even though I was heavier just to make a point.”
“She says 148 is her “favorite weight” and hse likes to get a little bigger than that sometimes, because she has to choose between the look of her breasts and her abs.
“You can’t have both,” she quipped.
