Ronda Rousey (L) works the armbar submission (R) against Sarah Kaufman – Photo via Facebook.com/Strikeforce
Strikeforce women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey (6-0) has become the first female mixed martial artist signed by the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
News of her signing surfaced recently and will certainly push the former Judo Olympian’s star even higher with all of the exposure she will receive in the Octagon.
On Wednesday night, Rousey had a chance to officially comment on the signing as a guest on the Jim Rome show on Showtime.
“There’s so much more that I want to do, that like once it happened I was like “yes this is amazing!” and then right after I’m like now I have to fight, now I have to do this, so I’m very, very excited, but I really didn’t spend that much time dwelling on it because there’s so many more things that I have to get done now that that’s happened,” Rousey stated.
“I need to prepare for my fight coming up. I can’t just sit around and do a little dance about getting signed, I’ve got to win my fight.”
Rousey also addresses a few other questions, which MMAWeekly.com has transcribed as above, concerning recent comments on women’s mma by UFC champ Georges St-Pierre, sex before a fight, and surviving a zombie apocalypse. Be sure to visit the link.