10 Things You Didn't Know About Ronda Rousey
The queen of the cage returns in Decemeber.
When Ronda Rousey returns at UFC 207 towards the end of December, it will have been over a year since she last set foot in the octagon. Over a year since she was viciously knocked out by Holly Holm in Australia. Since then, the women's bantamweight championship has changed hands twice, from Holm to Miesha Tate, and from Tate to Amanda Nunes. It is Nunes, a ferocious bulldog of a fighter nicknamed The Lioness, who Rousey will face in her return, with the belt on the line.
The fight promises to be a stellar affair, and the UFC, as has been a recent trend, is absolutely stacking the card. Expectations are that the event will be one of the biggest of the year, alongside Brock Lesnar and UFC 200, and UFC 196, 202, and 205, headlined by Conor McGregor.
Yet it has been a long time, in terms of the fight game, since Rousey has been in the spotlight. A long time since fans have taken a close look at "Rowdy" and all she has to offer. Although the knockout loss at UFC 193 erased some of her mystique, she remains one of the most tantalizing, polarizing figures in MMA.
You probably know a lot about her. That she was the first American woman to medal in the Olympics. That she won her first eight fights by arm bar. Yet there's still lots you don't know.
With that in mind, lets dig a little deeper, into ten things you didn't know about Ronda Rousey.
10. She Filed To Trademark The Phrases DNB And FTA
Ronda Rousey has been nothing if not a pop culture powerhouse since breaking into the UFC in 2013. In just a few short years, she took the fighting world by storm, became one of its biggest stars, crossed over into Hollywood, appeared on talk shows left, right and center, released an autobiography, and sold a ton of merchandise.
One of the lesser known facts about Rousey is her attempts to trademark a couple of phrases, at least one of which she is believed to have coined. That one, which became mildly popular last year, was DNB: Do Nothing B****.
What exactly is a DNB? On UFC 190's Embedded special, Rousey explained that a DNB is "a b**** who just tries to be pretty and be taken care of by someone else."Exactly the kind of woman she wasn't raised to be.
Then there's FTA, a more recent attempt at trademarking a phrase, and far less original. What does that one stand for? "F*** them all" - which Rousey says became her slogan following her loss to Holly Holm. She would go on to file five trademarks for the phrase.