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Regardless of one's feelings about her, Ronda Rousey was singlehandedly responsible for getting women into the Ultimate Fighting Championship. In 2011, UFC President Dana White claimed with a laugh and a smile that women would never compete in the organization. Less than two years later, not only were women fighting in the UFC, but Rousey was headlining a pay-per-view in her very first appearance, facing Liz Carmouche at UFC 157.