Ronda Rousey burst onto the women's MMA scene in August of 2010. Born in Riverside County, California on February 1, 1987 to parents Ron Rousey and AnnMaria DeMars , little Ronda was born with an umbilical cord wrapped around her neck that damaged her vocal chords. She didn't speak coherently until the age of six. Ronda was a self-professed tomboy and swam from the ages of 6 to 10. She competed on the Jr. Olympic swim team where she placed in the state level. Because of her mother, a 7th degree black belt and 1984 World Judo Champion, Ronda took up the sport. She had a hard time socializing with other kids and found that Judo gave her confidence. She holds a 4th degree black belt in the martial art. Ronda's Judo career is a storied one. At 17 she became the youngest judoka in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. That same year she won a gold medal at the World Junior Judo Championships in Budapest, and in 2006 she became the first U.S. female in almost 10 years to win an A-Level tournament going 5-0 to clench the gold at the World Cup in Great Britain. At 19 she won the bronze medal at the Junior World Championships. She is the first U.S. athlete to win two Junior World Medals. In 2007 she added a silver at the World Judo Championships and a gold at the Pan American Games. The pinnacle of her Judo career was a bronze at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Rousey became the first American to win an Olympic medal in women's Judo since it became an Olympic sport in 1992. After medaling in the Olympics, Ronda's career hit a dead end. She did some bartending to make ends meet and tried to find a better paying job, but it was tough finding anyone that needed her particular skill set. Throwing people down and putting them in armbars aren't really something you can put on a resume. By chance Ronda caught the Gina Carano vs. Julie Kedzie fight on television and things changed. She made her mixed martial arts debut as an amateur in 2010. Since then she has never lost a fight, winning the majority in the first round by armbar submission. Ronda took it upon herself to chase after and demand attention so that the UFC could no longer ignore women fighters. UFC President Dana White had publicly stated that women would never be allowed to fight in the UFC, but on February 23, 2013, Ronda did just that. She won the fight against Liz Carmouche in the first round with her signature armbar and became the first UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion. Ronda will be appearing in her first motion picture - The Expendables 3 (2014). Other projects are Fast & Furious 7 (2015) and The Athena Project as well as Entourage (2015). - IMDb Mini Biography By: Cheryl Delany

Fourth degree black belt in judo. At age 17, became youngest judoka (judo player) to compete at the Olympics, during the 2004 games in Athens, Greece. At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China won a bronze medal, becoming the first American woman to win a medal since judo's inception into the Olympics. Was given the nickname "The Arm Collector", because she has won all her mixed martial arts bouts by arm bar. One of her nicknames, "Rowdy" was given to her by retired pro-wrestler "Rowdy" Roddy Piper . Her mother, Dr. AnnMaria DeMars , is a seventh degree black belt in judo, and the first American to ever win a world championship in judo in 1984. Has two older sisters; Maria Burns-Ortiz and Jennifer Rousey, and one younger sister; Julia DeMars . Ronda's maternal grandfather was of Venezuelan background, and was of part Afro-Venezuelan ancestry (Ronda's great-grandfather was Trinidad-Canadian Dr. Alfred E. Waddell). Ronda's other ancestry includes Polish, English, and German. She trains at Glendale Fighting Club under striking coach Edmond Tarverdyan and wrestling coach Martin Berberyan. She also trains at Hayestan MMA Academy under Gene LeBell , and Gokor Chivichyan and at Gracie Academy Torrence under Rener Gracie and Ryron Gracie . Defeated fighter Miesha Tate on March 3, 2012 to become the Strikeforce Women's Bantamweight Champion. Fourth and final winner of the Strikeforce (2009) Bantamweight World Title. Venice, California, USA: Teaching martial arts at Dynamic MMA and fighting professionally for MMA promotion Strikeforce. [March 2012] Venice, California, USA; Current UFC women's bantamweight champion. [June 2013] She suffered from damaged vocal cords after the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck during birth. Because of that, she wasn't able to speak until she was six years old. Her father Ron Rousey committed suicide when she was eight years old. He had a rare disease called Bernard-Soulier Syndrome, a hemophilia-like disorder where the blood can't clot, which he didn't know he had. He broke his back in a sledding accident and it wasn't healing. His doctors told him that because of his condition, he had two years to live. First he'd become a paraplegic. Then he'd become a quadriplegic. Then he would die. So he killed himself to keep his family from going into debt and spare his family seeing him slowly die. Ranked #42 on Maxim's Hot 100 for 2014.