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Totally not the point of the article but the claim that she was "the world's most dominate athlete" piqued my interest as I've never really heard of her. Apparently SI published this in 2015(the link in the article to SI is broken).

This is the same year that Serena Williams, a household name, won the first three Grand Slam singles tournaments. This coming off a 2014 US Open win so 4 in a row. Anyway, some historical context lol.

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Tbf, the more nuanced wording in the SI article is the "most dominant fighter" and most "dominant athlete in [her] sport"

https://www.si.com/mma/2015/05/12/ronda-rousey-ufc-mma-fight...

Ah, yeah that's fair for SI. I guess manipulating quotes to be misleading is par for the 2024 course.

Ronda Rousey won eight fights in a row with the same technique. In five of those, it took less than a minute.

Imagine a soccer player saying she was going to take the ball from midfield, go straight down the middle, and then drill it into the top left corner of the goal, and it working eight times in a row.

Then she won four more fights, all very quickly and with more diverse skill set. It was shocking.

That says more about her division. She got completely outclassed by Holm and Nunes straight after, and had a whole lot of excuses as to why.

Yeah, and there's about 2_500 WTA players competing for money and about 40 million female tennis players globally.

There are about 248 active female UFC fighters?

The talent pool in other sports is much, much, much deeper.

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