LAS VEGAS – Ronda Rousey was inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame on Thursday, turning into the primary female inductee in the organization’s history.
Rousey was the UFC’s first ladies’ champion, holding the bantamweight belt from 2012 to 2015 and protecting it six distinct circumstances.
She won her initial 12 proficient blended combative techniques battles, incorporating six in the UFC, all by accommodation, with 11 of the 12 battles finishing off with the first round. Everything except three of those battles were chosen in less than one moment, and Rousey possesses records for four of the five speediest completes in UFC ladies’ bantamweight history.
I am not the first person who had the ability to do this, but I am here because I am the first person you took the time to watch,” Rousey told the crowd at the Pearl Theatre during her induction speech. That you put the energy into supporting. Because of you, I am the first woman standing up here accepting this incredible honor. May I be the first of many
Rousey was the principal American lady to win an Olympic decoration in judo when she asserted bronze at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, before progressing into a profession in blended hand to hand fighting. She initially became well known in the teach as the last Strikeforce ladies’ bantamweight champion before the organization was purchased by UFC in 2011.
In 2011, UFC president Dana White said that ladies could never battle in the UFC. After two years, Rousey, the main female warrior at any point marked to the UFC, partook in the principal UFC ladies’ battle when she crushed Liz Carmouche at UFC 157.
Rousey was the main American woman to win an Olympic award in judo when she asserted bronze at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, before progressing into a profession in blended hand to hand fighting. She initially became well known in the train as the last Strikeforce ladies’ bantamweight champion before the organization was purchased by UFC in 2011.
In 2011, UFC president Dana White said that ladies could never battle in the UFC. After two years, Rousey, the main female warrior at any point marked to the UFC, partook in the principal UFC ladies’ battle when she crushed Liz Carmouche at UFC 157.
In my almost 18 years as UFC president, I’ve learned many valuable lessons, White said as he presented Rousey. “And the one that comes to mind tonight is never say never, especially when you’re talking to UFC. In my defense, when I famously said women would never fight in the UFC, I had never met Ronda Rousey. I had never met the woman who would change everything. She started by changing my mind and she ended up changing the world.
Every time I walked into that cage, I was hoping to make you proud,” Rousey told the crowd. “We have had this incredible journey, and it was really an honor to be able to live it with you.
Rousey rapidly wound up one of the game’s greatest stars. She featured her last four pay-per-see battles, with the last two illustration 1.1 million pay-per-see purchases, and the one preceding that creating 900,000 purchases. The main other UFC warriors to draw in those numbers since 2014 are Conor McGregor and Brock Lesnar.
She was named the most overwhelming dynamic competitor by different outlets in 2015, and an online ESPN survey amid that time selected Rousey as the best female competitor ever. She likewise turned into a hybrid big name amid that time with supporting parts in the movies “The Expendables 3,” “Furious 7” and “Entourage.”
Rousey was one of the greatest stars on the planet and saw as fantastic, until her stunning second-round knockout misfortune to Holly Holm before 56,214 fans in Melbourne, Australia, on Nov. 15, 2015. She returned multi year later yet was thumped out once more, this time only 48 seconds into the first round against Amanda Nunes at UFC 207 in Las Vegas on Dec. 30, 2016. Rousey has not contended in MMA since that misfortune. She joined the WWE in January.
