10 Times Wrestling Was More Hardcore Than "Real" Sports

7. Clocking In At The Office

Sports: Ronda Rousey may be the highest paid fighter in UFC, but she definitely doesn't bill by the hour, and a typical Rousey match has her spending more time walking to the ring than in it. In a combined total of 130 seconds Rowdy Ronda delivered a sound beat-down to Sara Mcmann, Alexis Davis, Cat Zingano and Bethe Correia. Spending $50 on a UFC ticket and getting an arm bar submission in a matter of seconds is actually a pretty poor value. Even watching sports at home isn't much of a value when one considers that an average American football game is over 3 hours total but only 11 minutes of play time. Pro Wrestling: Bayley and Sasha Bank's 30-Minute Iron-Man Match at NXT Take-Over Brooklyn topped many writer's lists of the best matches of the year and elevated the athleticism of women's wrestling. In one of the longest women's matches ever seen on American broadcast, the two use chain-wrestling, submission moves, brawling, and high-spots, to keep the crowd on the edge of their seats. For an adult woman, wrestling burns 297 calories an hour, gymnastics 236 and martial arts burns 595 calories an hour. Sasha and Bayley probably burned at least 300 calories each in their match.