In a brand new video on her YouTube channel, former UFC and WWE star Ronda Rousey pays a go to to tattoo artist Chuey Quintanar, to have every of her blended martial arts wins inked onto her wrist. It seems to be a fairly prolonged listing. “I nonetheless cannot consider it, it,” says the fighter-turned-actress. “I’ve checked it 9 instances, I am like, written out like that, it is fucking insane.”
Whereas Quintanar works on every win time, Rousey shares her recollections of the fights, and the moments main as much as them. As an illustration, her skilled MMA debut towards Ediane Gomes did not have probably the most auspicious begin. “My roommate’s canine bit by my foot the day earlier than,” she reveals. “I had 9 stitches in my foot.” She recollects that her physician warned that she was more likely to rupture her stitches in a minute if she fought. “I used to be like, effectively, lower than a minute.” True to her phrase, Rousey beat Gomes in 25 seconds with an armbar.
Not lengthy after, she made her Strikeforce debut towards Sarah D’Alelio, earlier than changing into the primary feminine fighter to be signed to UFC in 2012, after which its first feminine Bantamweight Champion. When it got here time to defend this title towards Liz Carmouche the next yr, Rousey discovered herself in a battle that threw all types of less-than-ideal elements her approach.
“My bra was too small,” she says. “I had my battle bra and my weigh-in bra, however they printed two of the weigh-in bra. This was earlier than they’d Reebok doing shit. So she was actually popping my sinuses, dislocating my jaw, I’ve to steadiness… after which my fucking nipples come out. So numerous issues are occurring in my thoughts in that second.”
The ultimate victory in Rousey’s tattoo listing occurred in 2015, when she flew to Brazil to battle Bethe Correia at UFC 190. Previous to the occasion, she describes getting what she calls “FaceTime arm,” a cramp from staying in a single place whereas speaking to her now-husband Travis Browne over the spotty WiFi. However she provides that it did not impede her when it got here to beating Correia in a knockout in 34 seconds: “I dropped her with a straight proper with my FaceTime arm.”
