OlympicTalk · May 22, 2015
Watch Ronda Rousey’s segment on ‘Real Sports’
Ronda Rousey, the Olympic bronze medalist judoka and UFC champion, said she preferred the title of world’s best pound-for-pound fighter over potentially being called sexiest woman alive in an HBO “Real Sports” profile this week.
Rousey rose to stardom well after she became the first U.S. Olympic women’s judo medalist at Beijing 2008 in her second Games. Her Olympic experiences were mentioned in the “Real Sports” profile, but Rousey’s fame came after she quit judo and took up mixed martial arts in 2010 (more on Rousey’s controversial leave from judo here).