Ronda Jean Rousey was born February 1, 1987 in Riverside, California. She is an American professional wrestler, actress, author, mixed martial artist and judoka. Rousey was a vegan after Beijing 2008, but in 2012 described her current diet as “kind of a mix between a Paleo and a Warrior diet”, trying to eat everything organic. Rousey is a fan of Dragon Ball Z and Pokémon and her favorite Pokémon is Mew. Ronda Rousey is ranked 6th in dan black belt in Judo. For the first six years of her life, Rousey struggled with speech and could not form an intelligible sentence due to apraxia, a neurological childhood speech sound disorder. Rousey dropped out of high school and later earned her GED. Rousey began judo with her mother at the age of 11. At 17, Rousey qualified for the 2004 Olympic games in Athens, becoming the youngest judoka in the entire games. She retired from judo at 21 after the Olympics. She is currently signed to WWE, performing on the Raw brand, where she is the current Raw Women’s Champion in her first reign. Her longstanding nickname, “Rowdy”, was inherited from late professional wrestler Roddy Piper. Rousey made her mixed martial arts debut as an amateur on August 6, 2010. She defeated Hayden Munoz by submission due to an arm bar in 23 seconds. Rousey began her professional career as a mixed martial artist in 2010, after becoming the first American woman to earn an Olympic medal in judo, by winning bronze at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
