![]() ![]() The alarm clock next to her is set to go off at nine. Her right foot is jerking around, and her eyelids begin to flutter. With her, it’s like the Tyson era, like, how fast is she gonna destroy somebody, and in what manner? Ronda’s one in a million.” “She’s the greatest athlete I’ve ever worked with. “She’s a beast, man,” says UFC president Dana White. ![]() On the fight scene, there’s never, ever really been anyone quite like her. At the age of 28, she has in four years become the most dominant mixed-martial-arts fighter in the sport’s history and was in fact recently named “the most dominant athlete alive,” beating out names like LeBron and Mayweather. Her fights, three amateur and 11 pro, with not a single loss among them, tend to end in less than 60 seconds. Not that the world has gotten a chance to see all of this mayhem yet. At times like those, she’s a broad-shouldered, evil-eyed fighting fury, capable of wicked overhand rights, various elbow strikes, thudding head punches, an entire panoply of judo throws, mounts, tosses and sweeps, and, of course, her signature fight-ending killer move, the armbar submission. She’s naked, because that’s how she sleeps, not much of a threat to anyone and so unlike how she is when she’s in the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s Octagon. ![]() Ronda Rousey is peacefully asleep inside her wee Venice Beach, California, bungalow, her breathing rhythmic, only one of her feet stirring. ![]()
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