Amanda Nunes vs. Ronda Rousey — She’s Back! Former champion Ronda Rousey returns to the Octagon to take on bantamweight titleholder Amanda Nunes at UFC 207 on December 30 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, live on Pay-Per-View.
Watch: Ronda Rousey vs Amanda Nunes UFC 207 Promo
It’s been an emotional rollercoaster ride for Ronda Rousey ever since her shock defeat to Holly Holm in UFC 193. Eager to put this setback behind her, Rowdy will attempt to climb another mountain as she steps into the Octagon to face Amanda Nunes, the current UFC bantamweight champion, at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Will she celebrate victory?
Ronda Jean Rousey (/ˈraʊzi/born February 1, 1987) is an American mixed martial artist, judoka, and actress. Rousey was the first U.S. woman to earn an Olympic medal in judo (Bronze), which she won at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She is the former UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion, as well as the last Strikeforce Women’s Bantamweight Champion. She won twelve consecutive MMA fights, six in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), before suffering her first and only loss to Holly Holm; she won eleven of those fights in the first round, nine of them by armbar submission. Rousey trains under Gokor Chivichyan of the Hayastan MMA Academy, and Edmond Tarverdyan of the Glendale Fighting Club. In 2015, she was the third most searched person on Google.
As of March 2016, Rousey is ranked the #2 female bantamweight fighter in the world according to the Ultimate Fighting Championship, and #3 by Sherdog. Sherdog and Fight Matrix also list her as the #4 pound-for-pound Women’s MMA fighter.
In May 2015, two magazines ranked Rousey as the most “dominant” active athlete. In September 2015, voters in an online ESPN poll selected Rousey as the Best Female Athlete Ever. Later that month, she claimed to be the UFC’s highest paid fighter, male or female.
Rousey’s first feature film role was the 2014 film The Expendables 3. In 2015, she had roles in the films Furious 7 and Entourage.
