In nearly six years covering UFC events on site in one of the scenes that most impressed me was the end of the title fight between Ronda Rousey and Miesha Tate in issue 168, December 2013. Even after winning forcefully and keep as the Ultimate champion, Ronda heard one of the biggest boos from the history of the event, with a crowded and before a predominantly American public gym. All because he refused to shake his rival after being announced as the winner.
She has an impeccable career and increasingly close to invincibility, the owner of the first female UFC belt never made sure to look cool on camera or in front of their rivals. Your kindness goes to where your opponent deserves. Always frank and outspoken, divided MMA fans: on one side the admirers of his refined technique, the other the "haters" who do not like the way she behaves. She never cared about the role of villain. On the contrary, the shoe served him very well. That to see your book.
Launched in the US in May this year, "Rousey - My Fight / Your Fight" (in Brazil comes out this week in Portuguese with the title "Ronda Rousey - My Struggle, His Struggle" by Abajour Books publisher) if prepõe to be a biography of a personality of only 28 years. As well Dana White said in the preface, this is sure to be only the first volume of the history of fighter.
But more to tell unknown stories of Ronda Rousey - or other detail that were already public - publishing (made by four hands between her and her sister, the sports journalist Maria Burns Ortiz) deconstructs sincerely that role of villain she took . She is revealing the many hassles that went into your life until you reach the pantheon of the greatest MMA fighters of today. She approaches the public showing his human side, how she became a heroine to her own story.
From time to time, his life was marked by personal tragedies, the most diverse degrees. His mother had a complication in childbirth that caused her to speak only close to four years. Still very young, his father committed suicide by having an irreversible degenerative disease that would let in a vegetative state. She underwent home run moments, fight with mother, bankruptcy (which led her to live in his car) and risked his career having three jobs at the same time, that while training.
The book's storyline revolves around how Ronda managed to overcome each of these problems and how it formed his character as a person and as a fighter. Flirting with self-help, the text explains to us the origin of so much confidence and as she prepares to prevent their greatest fear: the defeat. In this training, as a character key his mother, Ann-Maria Burns first world champion US judo. She is responsible for turning the small Ronda in a talented judoka and push it to its limit - often outside of health. The ups and downs of the relationship between the two made the UFC champion get here, either by physical motivations, either pure, classic and eternal challenge between mother and daughter. A phrase from Ann-Maria makes this clear: "Champions always do more." It was so even seriously hurt she developed his unfailing armbar, for example.
Boyfriends and tears are also an important part, especially in the last years of his career. And once again we see that it is "people like us". Only citing rapidly, she had her first boyfriend who cheated on her, the perfect boyfriend who then proved to have a serious problem with drugs, her boyfriend that she thought ugly, the pervert boyfriend who took pictures of her naked without her knowing ... And the proof of it must have hidden or left out little thing is it has revealed whence came the rumor that she would have a case or Dana White, or how she hated being coach of the reality show The Ultimate Fighter side of the Miesha Tate and why it'll never repeat this experience. It's very sincerely against one of the UFC Eye girls.
After reading almost 300 pages of plain text, direct, fluid and with so many bad words, it's hard not to create some empathy for Ronda Rousey. From now on it will be hard to imagine her ever as the bad character of the story.
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