In November 2015, Ronda Rousey was the most feared woman in world sports. UFC Bantamweight Champion, the first female fighter to sign with the organization, and just named the greatest female athlete of all time by ESPN. 🏆 And then she opened her mouth.
On the Showtime program, she bluntly confessed that she had “as much sex as possible” before each fight to raise her testosterone. As if she needed more fuel. In an exchange with Maxim magazine, she was just as direct: she spoke candidly about what she likes and what she will not tolerate a man doing in bed. Her partner at the time was fellow UFC fighter Travis Browne, confirmed just weeks earlier. 🔥
What no one knew—not even her, perhaps—is that those statements were published on November 4, 2015. Eleven days later, Holly Holm knocked her out at UFC 193 and took the belt from her. Rousey would later confess that that night she thought about taking her own life. The same body she had built like a war machine had betrayed her when it mattered most. 😶