Strikeforce Champ Ronday Rousey – Photo by Rey Del Rio – FOXSports.com
To be a truly successful mixed martial artist nowadays fighters have to constantly evolve, and that means training throughout the year even without a scheduled fight.
It’s the same for Strikeforce women’s bantamweight champion ‘Rowdy’ Ronda Rousey (5-0), who despite her perfect record of five straight armbar submissions, is headed to Stockton, California to improve her fight game.
Rousey is headed to the Team Cesar Gracie gym, made famous by the quality fighters who train there such as Nick and Nate Diaz, Strikeforce champ Gilbert Melendez, and Jake Shields.
‘Rowdy’ told MMAWeekly Radio that she was headed off to Stockton next month which would mark the first time in her mma career that she has fought outside of her normal gym.
“Yeah, I’m going up there from the 3rd to the 16th (of April) and it’s going to be the first time ever since I started doing MMA that I’m going to be training for an actual extended period of time away from my core camp, who I’ve always been with.”
“When I did judo I used to go around all the time, like every month or so I would go away for a week or two weeks to go train somewhere else,” said Rousey. “For some reason it’s something I never did in MMA, so they invited me to come train up there, and they’re good at a bunch of things that I need to work on so I’m super excited. It’s going to be the first time I’m training away from home in a long time.”
A few months ago, Rousey trained with Nick Diaz previous to his fight with Carlos Condit for the UFC interim welterweight title.