2015 has been a big year for Ronda Rousey; if it isn’t the Year of the Rousey, it’s only because 2016 ends up being even bigger. But the UFC women’s bantamweight champion has been keeping extremely busy from the very start of the year right up until now with her third fight of the year on the verge of happening. With all the headlines, it can be hard keeping all the important milestones and happenings straight. So, to help you with that, we’ve prepared this list of everything Ronda Rousey has been up to in 2015.
February 20: Ronda Rousey is one of two athletes to be featured in Sports Illustrated’s 2015 Swimsuit Issue.
February 28: Ronda defeats Cat Zingano at UFC 184 in 14 seconds. Cornerman and mentor Judo Gene LeBell argues that the timekeepers were slow on the stoppage, with the fight actually taking 12.83 seconds. Regardless, Rousey now holds the record for fastest finish in a UFC title fight, replacing Andrei Arlovski’s 15-second knockout of Paul Buentello from 2005.
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March 29: Ronda Rousey blows the roof off at Levi’s Stadium for WrestleMania 31. Appearing alongside The Rock, Ronda took on Triple H and Stephanie McMahon, judo throwing Triple H and catching McMahon in an armbar. The storyline was widely considered the highlight of the event and pushed WWE to start taking its women’s wrestling division more seriously.
April 3: Furious 7, the seventh film in the Fast & Furious series, premieres in theaters, going on to gross more than $350 million. Ronda Rousey plays ‘Kara,’ a mysterious bodyguard for Dubai royalty that rumbles with Michelle Rodriguez.
May 12: Ronda Rousey’s autobiographical book My Fight / Your Fight comes out and hits the New York Times Bestseller list despite being banned in Wal-Marts across America. The book, co-written by her sister Maria Burns Ortiz, continues to sell well and still sits on the NYT list at No. 5.
June 3: The Entourage movie premieres in theaters with Ronda Rousey playing herself.
July 15: Ronda Rousey cleans up at the ESPY Awards, winning the Best Female Athlete award for the second year in a row and taking the Best Fighter ESPY out from under Floyd Mayweather, who had won it six out of the nine times it had been awarded. Afterwards, she quipped, “I wonder how Floyd feels, being beat by a woman for once.”
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July 29: Ronda Rousey responds to critics who try to shame her body type, saying, “Just because my body was developed for a purpose other than f*cking millionaires doesn’t mean it’s masculine. I think it’s femininely badass as f*ck. Because there’s not a single muscle on my body that isn’t for a purpose. Because I’m not a Do-Nothing Bitch.” The expression caught on, with Rousey selling more than 60,000 shirts for charity and Beyonce using the quote to open her “Made in America” concert later that summer.
August 1: Ronda Rousey knocks Bethe Correia out at UFC 190. It’s another quick fight; it only took 34 seconds for the champ to put Correia face down on the canvas. That brought her total cage time for the past four title defenses to a mere two minutes 10 seconds.
August 28: Burning Angel Entertainment releases “Ronda ArouseMe: Grounded And Pounded,” a porn parody based on Ronda Rousey’s fight career. The video features Ronda lookalike Kleio Valentien getting rowdy with her coach, promoter, and Miesha Tate spoof ‘Miesha Taint.’ You know you’ve made it when you get your own porn parody.
August 28: Carl’s Jr debuts a commercial for their new breakfast sandwich starring Ronda Rousey. Sales of the sandwich soared and the commercial gained more than a billion media impressions in under two weeks.
September 9: Variety drops the news that Ronda Rousey will star in a gender swapped reboot of Road House, taking over the bouncer role made famous by Patrick Swayze back in 1989. The film will be Rousey’s first test at the top of a movie bill, and she says she’s using the fear that she might “really suck and disgrace the name of Swayze” as motivation to pull off the role.
October 15: Ronda gets warmed up for Halloween by training in a Pikachu costume. Ronda is a certified Pokemon addict, having finished all the games and collected every Pokemon in the pokedex.
November 14: Ronda Rousey faces Holly Holm at UFC 193 in Melbourne, Australia. The fight will be held at Etihad Stadium and is set to become the biggest mixed martial arts fight in the history of the sport with more than 60,000 tickets sold.